A country that manufactures most of the world's - well, everything - doesn't have the sophistication to hack a couple of lousy Windows boxen? Ummmmmmmmm....
It's really not all that difficult to survive a slashdot pounding for commercial web shops, even for dynamic content. Generally speaking, a popular link is going to generate perhaps 500k views a day for a day and some.
Only exceptions would be if there was a lot of heavy content being served on each page turn, saturation of one's uplink is a possibility - 10Gb links to the backbone aren't that common as yet, and CDNs like Akamai helps alleviate a good portion of that traffic.
My totally unsubstantiated guess is there was some DNS fooage that directed sites to a down cluster or possibly a screwed up CDN leg, but I'll be interested to see what's truly up.
Okay, so this should probably be on halfbakery.com, but - after my initial non-reading of the article, and my assumption that this had nothing to do with iPods, and my scoffing of the notion of a supercomputer of iPods... hmmmmmmmmm...
So just for the Friday afternoon fantasy's sake, I am envisioning a series of flat grids of iPods, communicating through their dock adapter. More like discrete workers - here's a work unit, there's your output, etc. Built in UPS (battery), ability to pause a simulation and move individual worker units in and out of the grid...
I know it's wildly impractical and couldn't solve many problems at all that couldn't be solved through other clustering approaches... but the idea just has me.... help.
That's just the biggest crock of shit ever. Customers will demand service that doesn't completely suck, and that's going to drive broadband investment more than anything else.
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The round mouse was pretty much a throw-away, I agree, but not for carpal tunnel. You just couldn't easily orient it.
As to upgradability/usability - got an iMac DV SE circa 2000 that's going fine, being used daily.
How about in the editor-tagged rejoinder about rtm, who is nowhere discussed in the article? Robert MOORE, Timothy, not Morris. Moving on to the actual article (is anyone actually discussing this, or is it all about the usual hacker-vs-cracker meme?)
I found the article particularly annoying in its attempt to link the perps with animal torturers, its feeble pop-cultural references (Cavemen? from a Geico commercial?, and its breathlessly righteous neener-neener overall tone. Is it an Australian thing, that law-and-order is so delightful? If so - oh, the irony.
If zebra striping doesn't actually make it easier to identify which cells actually belong to a given row - maybe a rethink of what is trying to be accomplished here could help. Perhaps highlighting of the row under the cursor?
I'm adamantly opposed to any required data retention such as mail logs, web logs, etc. I'm less opposed to retention of DHCP lease records - I don't think that'd pose that significant of a burden on ISPs.
On the whole, I oppose government's attempt to mandate what a private business does with its data.
In days of heady fantasy, I had envisioned a trojan that disabled the mark's network until they passed a test (the trojan's payload) that qualified them to be a responsible netizen.
We require a driver's license to operate cars - perhaps it's time we think about something similar for computers.
The reality seems a bit more complicated than an either/or disposition. For those of us that appreciate simple designs with high levels of functionality, Apple has done a number of things correctly.BUT:
I think the upshot is that consumers appreciate being treated with respect, and given toys and tools that work well without having to expend, oh, for instance, hours trying to figure out why Ubuntu Heron generic kernel doesn't seem to boot, yet Heron 386 kernel does (but without SMP). Google and Apple both touched parts of our psyches that wanted to be stroked. At their best, they helped us feel competent with little expenditure on our parts. Google, like Apple, just worked - it found what we were looking for most of the time, with little fuss. Apple similarly. Apple began showing what I would call clear disdain for their customers - the $1.99 802.11n patch, the $20 firmware upgrade on the iPhone/iPod Touch, stacked dock view, Leopard Finder, abandonment of Newton, the MacBook Air, abandonment of OpenDoc, abandonment of HyperCard, Brushed Metal, no user support for Appearance Themes. The Apple Way or the Highway does tend to piss one off from time-to-time, especially when Apple screws it up badly.
If you "don't see any actual use in war, besides transporting things", you're really not trying.
Add a turret, a video camera, and a remote control -- presto, a soldier that can march 24/7 across the desert, across the ice, through tear gas clouds, through radioactive fallout, and arrive somewhere all fresh and ready to shoot people, or drop bombs.
And this could be likely achieved with other conventional robotic conveyance mechanisms. If you just need to deliver a mobile land-mine, adaptation of simple RC cars could probably serve. As for dropping bombs and shooting people - there are plenty of airborne weapons that would be difficult to surpass in terms of "efficiency". Cheaper and simpler will win.
About the only military use I can see for this might be urban alley crawls, where terrain could be difficult, cramped, and dangerous, and possibly IED detection/detonation. I agree with parent about this being mostly a pack mule.
It's needed as long-haul, not end-to-end. I would hope to see this implemented on the backbone. Then, standardize on last-mile internet connectivity of 100Mbit or more. I'd be just fine if YouTube supported decent video quality.
The methodology used to conclude that antidepressants are not significantly more effective than placebos is based on comparative HRSD scores (a 21 question survey designed to assess things like insomnia, feelings of suicide, sexual response, etc). Reading through the report, I feel the methodology used is flawed, as only aggregate HRSD scores are reported. Since SSRIs often cause physiological effects not present in placebos like headache (one of the HRSD metrics), significantly decreased libidio (another), and possible changes to sleep patterns (yet another), it may well be that certain HRSD metrics were lowered, while others were signficantly improved. This paper does not address this possibility. I make no other observation other than raising doubt on the conclusions these researchers came to.
Agreed. However, I think in practice, most users use only one or two passwords to login to the vast majority of websites. OpenID thus seems to simply codify this "truism", if I'm on-base. While a centralized password might make mass ownage of websites possible, it should also be simple to shutdown that account across a wide swath of websites more or less instantly.
I've been at Macs a long, long time. Started with the Mac 512k, two external 400k floppies. A few things have really irked me lately that were not true in the past. - OS upgrade pricing. There is none, just buy it new. Used to be the system software was distributed free. - Leopard "improvements". This has been hashed out elsewhere, but reduced functionality in the dock and non-movable sections in the finder sidebar are irksome, regardless of purported internal improvements. - Many more app crashes. In APPLE products. - Inconsistent user design, focus on chrome and glitz rather than usability. - Ongoing arrogance and hubris, as witnessed in the $20 iPod Touch software upgrade. Again, quite the kick-in-the-nuts for early adopters.
Lots of things are right with Apple, but I am not that happy with the trend that I am afraid I am seeing.
Yup, it does eat up too much bandwidth - because broadband providers count on oversubscription of their services coupled with actual rates that don't saturate their network. They seem to be content offering you a connection at an advertised speed - unless you actually try and use it at that advertised speed, which p2p seems to do a reasonably good job of.
On the face of it, it seems reasonable to suggest that broadband providers actually provision their network to allow simultaneous full-speed network traffic from all their end nodes. This becomes problematic at the provider's peering connections, though - in a sense, oversubscription seems a bit inevitable, as it doesn't seem practical with current WAN topologies to provision peering links that support the aggregate bandwidth of their nodes.
That would be interesting, except that's not what the article describes. The article describes a process of removing all the cells in the target organ, leaving the framework tissue. Then, cells are injected into the framework and grown into the original structure. So more like ripping off all the siding, drywall, and insulation of your house, and replacing it with new siding, drywall, and insulation - the floorplan doesn't change.
Bought my first one this Christmas - and promptly went out to buy a second. I am impressed by some of the software to utilize the stylus. I like handwriting and speech recognition, the split displays works out better than I had thought, wireless is seamless. It wouldn't take much to make the DS the uber-pda. I would like to see some accelerometers added for additional control mechanisms in games, and some traditional wi-fi surfing.
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NeXTStep was available for standard Intel boxen. It went nowhere.
So wait a minute - the US "invented" the internet. That doesn't seem to have reduced our propensity for war-mongering.
A country that manufactures most of the world's - well, everything - doesn't have the sophistication to hack a couple of lousy Windows boxen? Ummmmmmmmm....
It's really not all that difficult to survive a slashdot pounding for commercial web shops, even for dynamic content. Generally speaking, a popular link is going to generate perhaps 500k views a day for a day and some.
Only exceptions would be if there was a lot of heavy content being served on each page turn, saturation of one's uplink is a possibility - 10Gb links to the backbone aren't that common as yet, and CDNs like Akamai helps alleviate a good portion of that traffic.
My totally unsubstantiated guess is there was some DNS fooage that directed sites to a down cluster or possibly a screwed up CDN leg, but I'll be interested to see what's truly up.
sloth jr
Okay, so this should probably be on halfbakery.com, but - after my initial non-reading of the article, and my assumption that this had nothing to do with iPods, and my scoffing of the notion of a supercomputer of iPods... hmmmmmmmmm...
So just for the Friday afternoon fantasy's sake, I am envisioning a series of flat grids of iPods, communicating through their dock adapter. More like discrete workers - here's a work unit, there's your output, etc. Built in UPS (battery), ability to pause a simulation and move individual worker units in and out of the grid...
I know it's wildly impractical and couldn't solve many problems at all that couldn't be solved through other clustering approaches... but the idea just has me.... help.
A RAID array of zip drives?
That's just the biggest crock of shit ever. Customers will demand service that doesn't completely suck, and that's going to drive broadband investment more than anything else.
The round mouse was pretty much a throw-away, I agree, but not for carpal tunnel. You just couldn't easily orient it.
As to upgradability/usability - got an iMac DV SE circa 2000 that's going fine, being used daily.
How about in the editor-tagged rejoinder about rtm, who is nowhere discussed in the article? Robert MOORE, Timothy, not Morris. Moving on to the actual article (is anyone actually discussing this, or is it all about the usual hacker-vs-cracker meme?)
I found the article particularly annoying in its attempt to link the perps with animal torturers, its feeble pop-cultural references (Cavemen? from a Geico commercial?, and its breathlessly righteous neener-neener overall tone. Is it an Australian thing, that law-and-order is so delightful? If so - oh, the irony.
sloth jr
If zebra striping doesn't actually make it easier to identify which cells actually belong to a given row - maybe a rethink of what is trying to be accomplished here could help. Perhaps highlighting of the row under the cursor?
sloth jr
I'm adamantly opposed to any required data retention such as mail logs, web logs, etc. I'm less opposed to retention of DHCP lease records - I don't think that'd pose that significant of a burden on ISPs.
On the whole, I oppose government's attempt to mandate what a private business does with its data.
sloth jr
Excellent! $60 billion that can be used to build business, rather than sunk into proprietary software.
sloth jr
In days of heady fantasy, I had envisioned a trojan that disabled the mark's network until they passed a test (the trojan's payload) that qualified them to be a responsible netizen.
We require a driver's license to operate cars - perhaps it's time we think about something similar for computers.
Yup, you're right. Must've blurred my eyes and just inserted MCC where I read Mozilla. My apologies.
Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen did.
The reality seems a bit more complicated than an either/or disposition. For those of us that appreciate simple designs with high levels of functionality, Apple has done a number of things correctly.BUT:
I think the upshot is that consumers appreciate being treated with respect, and given toys and tools that work well without having to expend, oh, for instance, hours trying to figure out why Ubuntu Heron generic kernel doesn't seem to boot, yet Heron 386 kernel does (but without SMP). Google and Apple both touched parts of our psyches that wanted to be stroked. At their best, they helped us feel competent with little expenditure on our parts. Google, like Apple, just worked - it found what we were looking for most of the time, with little fuss. Apple similarly. Apple began showing what I would call clear disdain for their customers - the $1.99 802.11n patch, the $20 firmware upgrade on the iPhone/iPod Touch, stacked dock view, Leopard Finder, abandonment of Newton, the MacBook Air, abandonment of OpenDoc, abandonment of HyperCard, Brushed Metal, no user support for Appearance Themes. The Apple Way or the Highway does tend to piss one off from time-to-time, especially when Apple screws it up badly.
sloth jr
And this could be likely achieved with other conventional robotic conveyance mechanisms. If you just need to deliver a mobile land-mine, adaptation of simple RC cars could probably serve. As for dropping bombs and shooting people - there are plenty of airborne weapons that would be difficult to surpass in terms of "efficiency". Cheaper and simpler will win.
About the only military use I can see for this might be urban alley crawls, where terrain could be difficult, cramped, and dangerous, and possibly IED detection/detonation. I agree with parent about this being mostly a pack mule.
It's needed as long-haul, not end-to-end. I would hope to see this implemented on the backbone. Then, standardize on last-mile internet connectivity of 100Mbit or more. I'd be just fine if YouTube supported decent video quality.
sloth jr
Legislation such as this just emphasizes the utter weirdness that is Utah.
Utahans - do something useful with your time.
The methodology used to conclude that antidepressants are not significantly more effective than placebos is based on comparative HRSD scores (a 21 question survey designed to assess things like insomnia, feelings of suicide, sexual response, etc).
Reading through the report, I feel the methodology used is flawed, as only aggregate HRSD scores are reported. Since SSRIs often cause physiological effects not present in placebos like headache (one of the HRSD metrics), significantly decreased libidio (another), and possible changes to sleep patterns (yet another), it may well be that certain HRSD metrics were lowered, while others were signficantly improved. This paper does not address this possibility. I make no other observation other than raising doubt on the conclusions these researchers came to.
sloth jr
Agreed. However, I think in practice, most users use only one or two passwords to login to the vast majority of websites. OpenID thus seems to simply codify this "truism", if I'm on-base. While a centralized password might make mass ownage of websites possible, it should also be simple to shutdown that account across a wide swath of websites more or less instantly.
sloth jr
I've been at Macs a long, long time. Started with the Mac 512k, two external 400k floppies.
A few things have really irked me lately that were not true in the past.
- OS upgrade pricing. There is none, just buy it new. Used to be the system software was distributed free.
- Leopard "improvements". This has been hashed out elsewhere, but reduced functionality in the dock and non-movable sections in the finder sidebar are irksome, regardless of purported internal improvements.
- Many more app crashes. In APPLE products.
- Inconsistent user design, focus on chrome and glitz rather than usability.
- Ongoing arrogance and hubris, as witnessed in the $20 iPod Touch software upgrade. Again, quite the kick-in-the-nuts for early adopters.
Lots of things are right with Apple, but I am not that happy with the trend that I am afraid I am seeing.
Yup, it does eat up too much bandwidth - because broadband providers count on oversubscription of their services coupled with actual rates that don't saturate their network. They seem to be content offering you a connection at an advertised speed - unless you actually try and use it at that advertised speed, which p2p seems to do a reasonably good job of.
On the face of it, it seems reasonable to suggest that broadband providers actually provision their network to allow simultaneous full-speed network traffic from all their end nodes. This becomes problematic at the provider's peering connections, though - in a sense, oversubscription seems a bit inevitable, as it doesn't seem practical with current WAN topologies to provision peering links that support the aggregate bandwidth of their nodes.
sloth jr
That would be interesting, except that's not what the article describes. The article describes a process of removing all the cells in the target organ, leaving the framework tissue. Then, cells are injected into the framework and grown into the original structure. So more like ripping off all the siding, drywall, and insulation of your house, and replacing it with new siding, drywall, and insulation - the floorplan doesn't change.
sloth jr
Bought my first one this Christmas - and promptly went out to buy a second. I am impressed by some of the software to utilize the stylus. I like handwriting and speech recognition, the split displays works out better than I had thought, wireless is seamless. It wouldn't take much to make the DS the uber-pda. I would like to see some accelerometers added for additional control mechanisms in games, and some traditional wi-fi surfing.