If 1.5 million Americans are playing WoW then there's got to be a lot less Americans available to be playing something else.
You say that as if people only have time to play WoW. I personally have never played it so I'm not sure how long it takes to finish, but I've certainly played multiple games during a week before. Playing Medieval Total War one day and Civilization 3 another or even Desert Combat another. Why does WoW have to be described like it is some massive life-sucking force that drains all your resources, time, and energy? I think people are overreacting just a bit.. it's just a game.
Google and Ask.com both answer "Who is the President of the United States of America?" in the first hit.. George W. Bush. These "2.0" search engines have a long way to go.
I thought this was very common knowledge by now, especially on Slashdot.
Nope, this is the first time I've ever heard of it. I find it kind of funny that the Japanese would release two completely different versions by just redoing the sprites and not changing the game play. Don't assume everyone had 500 nintendo games and a subscription to some gaming magazine when they were growing up.
If you're paying $30 a month for a 6 Mbit ADSL line then you have to reasonably expect that they're oversubscribing their upstream bandwidth. If you're willing to pay $109.95/month with Speakeasy I'm pretty sure they couldn't care less if you max out your connection.. at least they've never said anything to me when I was using it heavily for long periods of time. You get different levels of service when you pay more.. what a newsflash!
Would that support a software RAID fabric that lets me distribute both processes and storage across a single virtual host, backed by lots of $150 PCs stuffed with cheap IDE drives?
No, for one thing VMWare ESX doesn't support IDE drives at all, and for another, your licensing costs for VMware per node would run you 20-30 times what your PC hardware cost. VMware ESX is meant to be run on big enterprise grade servers with multiple processors, gigabytes of RAM, and a SAN backend. Think of an ESX server as a modern-day mainframe wannabe. The technology, terminology, and cost is very similar.
What *you're* looking for is clustering, not virtualization. VMware is not a clustering solution.
What I find incredibly strange is that a machine like that, 7 years ago, would've been top of the line and lightning fast with Linux. Now it barely runs it? Maybe Linux distributions need to work on their bloat a little. In 1998 I got my blazing fast PII-266 with 512 megs of RAM and a 4 GB hard drive and used that to run Linux just fine. Eventually I even had VMware Workstation running on the thing and it ran fine. Now we've got to have a 3GHz P4 with 2 gigs of RAM and a 300 gig hard drive just to get by? WTF?
Application layer? That's would be HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and any other internet protocol running over TCP/UDP.
Application layer proxies in the firewall world refer to intelligent proxies that do protocol inspection. They wouldn't let telnet traffic through an HTTP proxy on port 80 for instance or HTTP traffic through a T.120 proxy. There are usually only a handful (perhaps a dozen or so) of these full application proxies in firewalls like Sidewinder. Other protocols are handled using "generic" TCP or UDP proxies that essentially listen on a socket interface for connections and when it gets a connection, analyzes the header, makes a new connection to the destination from the firewall itself and then basically "plugs" the traffic from one connection to the other passing it through a user-space proxy.
Newer firewalls employ hybrid techniques in addition to this simple example. Sidewinder (and Gauntlet) are able to drop traffic back to a packet filter layer automatically after some initial inspection done on the proxy determines the traffic is kosher in order to increase performance. Gauntlet used to call these adaptive proxies and Sidewinder calls it "Fast Path".
If your RAID-controller fails, you have to get another controller exactly the same, sometimes even the same firmware revision, or kiss your data goodbye.
Depends on your hardware controller. Some cards like the 3Ware controllers store the RAID info on the disks themselves so you can switch out the card with a completely different one and it should still work fine.
since it's in beta at this time, I'm sure lots of people can tell you EXACTLY what the performance of Vista is "at this time". It sucks!
Is that really fair though? Most beta software I'm used to has extra debugging compiled in to assist with bug tracking. That kind of stuff tends to slow down the software quite a bit.
Dunno about the article, but, that summary, toss in a few more buzzwords and it'll bamboozle any manager into buying the product.
Not to mention the demo itself. WTF is Rails or Django or TurboGsomethingorother? What about Drupal or Joomla? At least mention something people have actually heard of.
Because a pirated copy of windows does MS more good than a legal alternative OS?
Exactly! If I didn't have a pirated copy of Windows XP Pro how would I run my pirated copies of Microsoft Office 2003 or Visual Studio 2003? Don't even get me started on how sad I would be to not be able to play my pirated games!
1. Iraq posed a threat to the coalition
2. Iraq had functional weapons of mass destruction
3. Iraq had anything to do with Al Qaeda, terrorists or terror suspects
It's irrelevant whether or not these facts are true today, but a "war crimes" court would need to show that the United States didn't have credible evidence of these facts in 2003. That'd be pretty damn impossible since we DID have evidence and we presented it to the U.N. along with more secret documents that were undoubtably only shared with our closest allies like the U.K.
So anyway, this is all pointless in hindsight since Al Qaeda certainly DOES have ties in Iraq now and we are fighting terrorism there. The situation is going according to plan and terrorists are being drawn to Iraq like a moth is drawn to a flame. We also found a huge cache of WMD last month according to news reports. They were older weapons, but still deadly.
Invading another country, when not in self-defense, is a war crime ("supreme crime"),
by the Geneva conventions
The United States invaded Iraq along with a coalition of other countries in order to protect international security against a very credible threat of Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction to be used against first world nations by Iraq or Iraq-sponsored terrorists like Al Qaeda. As we've seen Iraq has VERY close ties to thousands of militant terrorists. Who the hell do you think we've been fighting the last 3 years!? It sure isn't the Iraqi army... we're fighting foreign terrorists like Al Qaeda with bases in Iraq. The only reason the pansy countries like France, Germany, and Russia didn't send aid was because they were getting a piece of Saddam's pie by selling him weapons for oil, something prohibited by the embargo.
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Err, right, but not all of us live in the middle of nowhere where we have a 20 mile line of site to a wireless communications tower. I've got trees, houses, even large buildings and hills between me and major communications centers. I'd need to construct a 90 foot tower in my back yard to clear all these obstacles... I don't think my homeowners' association would approve of that hillbilly broadband tactic.
Of course they did not really fail, they just never intended on doing it because they are intentionally avoiding both being standards compliant and advancing the state of the art for Web technologies (which could undermine their platform dominance).
Is there anything really stopping browsers like Safari, Firefox, and Opera from adhering to the same set of standards that Microsoft IE follows instead of some third party standard that 95% of the web browsing users out there aren't going to be able to enjoy? Why not fix Firefox so it displays IE-optimized pages nicely... namely where is the ActiveX support in Firefox, Safari, and Opera?
So they're adopting the Business Software Alliance model, right?
Microsoft, AKA the Business Software Alliance, doesn't usually prosecute individuals. It'd be different if the RIAA was going after large web sites that host MP3 files (does anyone dare do that anymore?) and charge money to join like allofmp3.com, but they're going after kids sharing music on their home machines with no intentions of making any money off of it.
Should we instead help the Chinese government oppress their people like Google and Yahoo?
Nope, I want the Chinese people to get pissed enough at all the restrictions that they have to live under to set them over the boiling point to overthrow their government. In fact, if we could get the communist government to ban WoW I imagine you'd have an uprising within days.;-)
It is irresponsible for people to post ways of bypassing the security restrictions a sovereign nation has enacted upon its people. If the Chinese people don't like the way their government is restricting their access to information then they have a moral obligation to overthrow that government, either peacefully via voting in the next election, or by force using a militia formed from the people. By showing the Chinese people ways to exist comfortably within the restrictions imposed by an immoral government we're not helping them to reach a better place in life.. namely a free and democratic Republic of China.
If I did my math right, isn't that like 9-something-billion per year in fines? And doesn't MS generate something like 40 billion per year in revenue? I say they won't even notice....
No, it's $912,500,000 a year in fines. I would say Microsoft doesn't *like* to throw away a billion dollars a year on fines, but it certainly wouldn't put them out of business.
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Google and Ask.com both answer "Who is the President of the United States of America?" in the first hit.. George W. Bush. These "2.0" search engines have a long way to go.
If you're paying $30 a month for a 6 Mbit ADSL line then you have to reasonably expect that they're oversubscribing their upstream bandwidth. If you're willing to pay $109.95/month with Speakeasy I'm pretty sure they couldn't care less if you max out your connection.. at least they've never said anything to me when I was using it heavily for long periods of time. You get different levels of service when you pay more.. what a newsflash!
No, for one thing VMWare ESX doesn't support IDE drives at all, and for another, your licensing costs for VMware per node would run you 20-30 times what your PC hardware cost. VMware ESX is meant to be run on big enterprise grade servers with multiple processors, gigabytes of RAM, and a SAN backend. Think of an ESX server as a modern-day mainframe wannabe. The technology, terminology, and cost is very similar.
What *you're* looking for is clustering, not virtualization. VMware is not a clustering solution.
What I find incredibly strange is that a machine like that, 7 years ago, would've been top of the line and lightning fast with Linux. Now it barely runs it? Maybe Linux distributions need to work on their bloat a little. In 1998 I got my blazing fast PII-266 with 512 megs of RAM and a 4 GB hard drive and used that to run Linux just fine. Eventually I even had VMware Workstation running on the thing and it ran fine. Now we've got to have a 3GHz P4 with 2 gigs of RAM and a 300 gig hard drive just to get by? WTF?
The link in the article circumvents Roland's blog by the way! The correct link is here.
Teachers in the United States expect their students to pay attention in class and not be distracted by toys.
Newer firewalls employ hybrid techniques in addition to this simple example. Sidewinder (and Gauntlet) are able to drop traffic back to a packet filter layer automatically after some initial inspection done on the proxy determines the traffic is kosher in order to increase performance. Gauntlet used to call these adaptive proxies and Sidewinder calls it "Fast Path".
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So anyway, this is all pointless in hindsight since Al Qaeda certainly DOES have ties in Iraq now and we are fighting terrorism there. The situation is going according to plan and terrorists are being drawn to Iraq like a moth is drawn to a flame. We also found a huge cache of WMD last month according to news reports. They were older weapons, but still deadly.
The United States invaded Iraq along with a coalition of other countries in order to protect international security against a very credible threat of Iraq developing weapons of mass destruction to be used against first world nations by Iraq or Iraq-sponsored terrorists like Al Qaeda. As we've seen Iraq has VERY close ties to thousands of militant terrorists. Who the hell do you think we've been fighting the last 3 years!? It sure isn't the Iraqi army... we're fighting foreign terrorists like Al Qaeda with bases in Iraq. The only reason the pansy countries like France, Germany, and Russia didn't send aid was because they were getting a piece of Saddam's pie by selling him weapons for oil, something prohibited by the embargo.
Err, right, but not all of us live in the middle of nowhere where we have a 20 mile line of site to a wireless communications tower. I've got trees, houses, even large buildings and hills between me and major communications centers. I'd need to construct a 90 foot tower in my back yard to clear all these obstacles... I don't think my homeowners' association would approve of that hillbilly broadband tactic.
Microsoft, AKA the Business Software Alliance, doesn't usually prosecute individuals. It'd be different if the RIAA was going after large web sites that host MP3 files (does anyone dare do that anymore?) and charge money to join like allofmp3.com, but they're going after kids sharing music on their home machines with no intentions of making any money off of it.
It is irresponsible for people to post ways of bypassing the security restrictions a sovereign nation has enacted upon its people. If the Chinese people don't like the way their government is restricting their access to information then they have a moral obligation to overthrow that government, either peacefully via voting in the next election, or by force using a militia formed from the people. By showing the Chinese people ways to exist comfortably within the restrictions imposed by an immoral government we're not helping them to reach a better place in life.. namely a free and democratic Republic of China.