From the point of view of the US or Europe, maybe. Look at the waters around Africa, there's a whole lotta difference, especially in the next couple of years.
It's actually even worse than this. Using your example, your TCP stack ramps up to 25mbps, overflows the buffer, and loses a lot of packets at once, rather than just one or a few packets that would be lost with a sane buffer. Lots of lost packets at once leads to a RTO timeout rather than a Fast Retransmit and Fast Recovery, and essentially you're starting over from zero instead of reducing your speed a little and continuing.
I've seen this a couple of times in this thread. I have IE6 and FF3 on this desktop, and neither of them has a BT cert in their list of roots. Proof please?
I'm part of teh evil content industry. If one of my games wrecks your PC, you can sue me. You can track me down easily from my registered company name and bring court proceedings for damages
I can certainly bring proceedings, but I will probably lose, seeing as the EULA I agreed to when I installed your game specifically indemnifies you from damages, and doesn't 'warrant merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose'.
Pilots don't use speed anymore, they use modafinil (brand name Provigil). Keeps you awake but doesn't make you wig out like Dexedrine does, which is widely regarded as a bad thing when the subject is in charge of a few tons of ordnance.
SSL isn't going to help you. The monitoring software used by the *AA's minions (MediaSentry et al) connects to the p2p networks themselves, and obtains lists of peers - and they can connect to SSL-enabled peers just as well as plaintext ones. They're not sniffing the wires.
Nintendo has had a pure cash cow with the Nintendo DS.
And with the Wii too. In the current games chart, there are 18 games that have sold over 1m copies. Of these 18, three are not for Nintendo systems, and only one of the remaining 14 is not made by Nintendo themselves. They are killing out there.
Both the EU and the US are examples that this can actually be done.
Except that the EU is much closer to the original vision of the US than the modern US is. As the GP says, there to limit a few things that states could not govern (like trade between states, or basic rights). The modern US is in nearly all significant ways a unitary country with provinces, rather than a union of sovereign states as originally intended.
Of course, this is mostly because the EU is ~40 years old. Give it a century or so, and we'll probably see it go the same way.
I have yet to see a university with half-way decent network security, given that the network has to be usable by clueless non-CS students (and worse, professors).
The computer lab at Cambridge University certainly used to have a policy (not sure if it still applies) that if you rooted one of their boxes, they would buy you a beer, if you rooted another one, they would buy you a whole evening of beers (at the legendary Eagle pub), and if you rooted a third one, they would offer you a job.
Their IT security was way, waaaaaaay better than any commercial company I have worked at. Full-time security staffers with PhDs, pro-active scanning, keypad entry to server rooms with CCTV, and so forth. I suppose with folk like Markus Kuhn and Ross Anderson in the department, they have to make a bit of an effort.:o)
I doubt it. I believe the terms of the record specify that it has to be user-initiated downloads, i.e. no auto-update. Downloads from FF's own auto-update were not included in their figure.
I used to be a CapsLock hater too... and then I learned to touch type.
When you touch type, you hit the Shift key with the opposite hand to the letter key. This means that if you're typing an all-caps word (normally an abbreviation), your hands end up doing the two-step shuffle - type ROFL this way and you'll see what I mean. Much faster to hit caps lock, the letters, and then caps lock again.
HTH (there again, you see;o)
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From the point of view of the US or Europe, maybe. Look at the waters around Africa, there's a whole lotta difference, especially in the next couple of years.
Modern TCPs use BIC or CUBIC, which produce much better utilization than a 'sawtooth'-type algorithm. See http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.66.4563&rep=rep1&type=pdf for details, in particular the graph at the top of page 2.
It's actually even worse than this. Using your example, your TCP stack ramps up to 25mbps, overflows the buffer, and loses a lot of packets at once, rather than just one or a few packets that would be lost with a sane buffer. Lots of lost packets at once leads to a RTO timeout rather than a Fast Retransmit and Fast Recovery, and essentially you're starting over from zero instead of reducing your speed a little and continuing.
I've seen this a couple of times in this thread. I have IE6 and FF3 on this desktop, and neither of them has a BT cert in their list of roots. Proof please?
I'm part of teh evil content industry. If one of my games wrecks your PC, you can sue me. You can track me down easily from my registered company name and bring court proceedings for damages
I can certainly bring proceedings, but I will probably lose, seeing as the EULA I agreed to when I installed your game specifically indemnifies you from damages, and doesn't 'warrant merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose'.
Pilots don't use speed anymore, they use modafinil (brand name Provigil). Keeps you awake but doesn't make you wig out like Dexedrine does, which is widely regarded as a bad thing when the subject is in charge of a few tons of ordnance.
SSL isn't going to help you. The monitoring software used by the *AA's minions (MediaSentry et al) connects to the p2p networks themselves, and obtains lists of peers - and they can connect to SSL-enabled peers just as well as plaintext ones. They're not sniffing the wires.
Nintendo has had a pure cash cow with the Nintendo DS.
And with the Wii too. In the current games chart, there are 18 games that have sold over 1m copies. Of these 18, three are not for Nintendo systems, and only one of the remaining 14 is not made by Nintendo themselves. They are killing out there.
Both the EU and the US are examples that this can actually be done.
Except that the EU is much closer to the original vision of the US than the modern US is. As the GP says, there to limit a few things that states could not govern (like trade between states, or basic rights). The modern US is in nearly all significant ways a unitary country with provinces, rather than a union of sovereign states as originally intended.
Of course, this is mostly because the EU is ~40 years old. Give it a century or so, and we'll probably see it go the same way.
EEEbuntu runs absolutely fine on my 901. You need to follow these instructions: http://www.ubuntu-eee.com/index.php5?title=Getting_the_network_drivers_working_on_the_901
I have yet to see a university with half-way decent network security, given that the network has to be usable by clueless non-CS students (and worse, professors).
The computer lab at Cambridge University certainly used to have a policy (not sure if it still applies) that if you rooted one of their boxes, they would buy you a beer, if you rooted another one, they would buy you a whole evening of beers (at the legendary Eagle pub), and if you rooted a third one, they would offer you a job.
Their IT security was way, waaaaaaay better than any commercial company I have worked at. Full-time security staffers with PhDs, pro-active scanning, keypad entry to server rooms with CCTV, and so forth. I suppose with folk like Markus Kuhn and Ross Anderson in the department, they have to make a bit of an effort. :o)
Look at how Windows CE eventually beat Palm.
That's not a very good example, seeing as both WinCE and Palm are being annihilated by RIM and Apple...
I doubt it. I believe the terms of the record specify that it has to be user-initiated downloads, i.e. no auto-update. Downloads from FF's own auto-update were not included in their figure.
I used to be a CapsLock hater too... and then I learned to touch type.
When you touch type, you hit the Shift key with the opposite hand to the letter key. This means that if you're typing an all-caps word (normally an abbreviation), your hands end up doing the two-step shuffle - type ROFL this way and you'll see what I mean. Much faster to hit caps lock, the letters, and then caps lock again.
HTH (there again, you see ;o)