Microsoft and Akamai have a friendly relationship, but because they want to control the distribution they release everything on their site. That's something you really, truly, cannot do with torrents, because you can write your own torrent that ignores the tracker's rules on DHT.
No matter what your distribution method, you have to remember that they are distributing hundreds of terabytes of data over a tenuous and fragile internet infrastructure. It may not even be Microsoft's links that are failing when you start talking about that much data.
Whine, whine, whine, I want free stuff, gimme free stuff, I guess guys like me don't deserve free stuff, so because I'm not getting anything for free I'm not gonna spend anything. TAKE THAT M$FT. It's total bullshit that you won't support a nine year old product and continue to sell it INDEFINITELY! TOTAL BULL MAN.
I bought this off Steam when it was on sale for $50 or $45 or whatever:
Buy id Super Pack Includes: Quake III Arena, Wolfenstein 3D, Ultimate DOOM, Final DOOM, DOOM II, QUAKE, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, QUAKE III: Team Arena, HeXen, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Spear of Destiny, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, DOOM 3, HeXen II, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, Master Levels for Doom II, Commander Keen
Forgive me for intruding on such a dense conversation, but from what I've learned about Big O and related notations, but constants are removed.
That is, it makes no difference to say the problem is 2^n or (1/2)2^n, you assume that there may be some constant involved, but since the constant is meaningless when you're merely analyzing the trend over a large space of numbers, you disregard it and say, "Yes, it's 2^n."
I guess that would be the only problem I have with your post, am I incorrect in this or...?
Just to be a pedant, you actually have to have something a lot larger than a telephone pole. You tried to cover yourself by saying "made of tungsten," but I'm going to guess the deceleration would break or melt even the toughest of elements.
At first I read "If the Second Amendment..." and I thought to myself, "What could possibly involve the RIAA and a right to bear arms... Oh. Oh... I see."
* Ubuntu 9.04 is a lot like Ubuntu 8.10 * New theme is kind of cool but still not default. * Default panels installed are still largely useless, taskbar fills up way too easily. * Font size still wrong when I install it, Canonical and I have a game we play called "figure out where the DPI settings are hidden." It gets less fun every year. (In Windows 7, I type "DPI" into the start menu search.)
I don't really have a counterpoint to #5, except to say that every OS'es file manager and the related abstractions are, uh... "locked in." I don't know what you expect. There's nothing stopping you from looking at all the files in a library and performing regular actions on them. And soon, hopefully, many applications will support the library abstraction as a folder path. I.e.: in Songbird, make my music library refer to the OS'es Music Library. That way I can put the music I have on my server, my laptop, etc, all referenced in one place.
I don't know how more "open" you can get with Libraries though, what's your suggestion?
Don't you work for non-lawyers all the time? They defer to you because you -are- a lawyer, but I think you might have to rescind your comment:)
I do IT, and not everyone in the chain of command knows more than I do about IT. They do know more about other things, like management, or sales, or marketing. My job in IT is to enable them to do their jobs, and so I have to know a little bit about their job, and they have to know a little bit about mine, but that's all.
If we were to live in some upside down world where we demanded everyone paying us had to know more about what we're doing than we do, no one would get anything done. Why are they paying you if they know more than you?
And this applies to you too, Ray. Your clients pay you, or your firm, or however you have it set up, and they don't know nearly as much as you do. If they did, they wouldn't be paying you.
The difference between them and an ISP though, at least in the case of The Pirate Bay, is that they don't carry any information that's copyright, only information -about- material that's potentially copyright. How many blocks of what size are available, what the hashes are for those blocks, etc.
Google actually has copies of nearly everything on the internet.
Go and manually run anti virus software on every infected PC.
Not that kind of worm. It was purely a scripting attack involving javascript. No one's computers were harmed, only a bunch of twitter accounts. (Which can no doubt be fixed by patching the whole and some good SQL query to fix all the accounts in one go.)
Since the cold war, demand for uranium has dropped too. If we had more nuclear power plants, we'd have more mining capacity, and we'd have something that could bridge us over until widespread renewable energy adoption and/or fusion. (It's only 20 years away!!! Still...)
It's related to the broken window fallacy. The idea of the fallacy is that you assume because money has changed hands that something good is accomplished, but that is illogical. We know that what we've done is divert money from one pursuit to another, one that takes food off a whole lot of other people's tables solely to benefit the glassmaker.
So that's how I see this argument. Let's say instead of a rather homogeneous network of 94% Windows, 4% Mac and 3% Linux, we have twenty different OSes with 5% marketshare each.
Now the people who make crossplatform development tools need to work about 6.6 times harder, as the number of people that can be dedicated to each platform has fallen by 85%.
The people who make Wine probably would never have come about. It doesn't make sense to duplicate one OS's APIs because the amount of work involved is about the same, but the real gain is quite different. Instead of Linux (2-3% marketshare) being able to claim the same software compatibility as Windows (93% marketshare,) it'd be one 5% getting another 5%. And they'd have to repeat that amount of work 17 more times in order to claim the same level of compatibility that Wine does.
So ironically, open source and cross platform development became exhorbitantly more expensive in terms of man hours in order to accomplish the same things.
And that's with a mere 20 equally good operating systems on the market. That's still millions of PCs running any one OS, which is perfectly fine for the blackhats. Lucky for the blackhats: this heterogeonity hurts every other software industry, including antivirus companies who have to spread their resources over 20+ different platforms. They now get the ability to easily choose which platform is the least secure and least likely to have capable users sitting "between chair and keyboard."
There's a huge difference between the backing Blizzard has in branching out and hitting Mac and Linux (Wine) platforms, and supporting them, and what the real cost would be to an independent developer, and how difficult it would be to make that business case to investors and fellow developers.
Also, it suffers from the same problem as the "broken window" fallacy. If we increase the heterogeneity of the network, we increase the cost for ALL developers, regardless of the color of their hat. Suddenly for legitimate software developers whose margins actually are razor thin, they have to deal with doubling, tripling, quadrupling development costs to reach the same audience. Big companies with big margins and regular blockbuster titles can afford that, but small players cannot. Actually, the irony is that only the mid-size players would suffer. Companies on thin margins competing with major corporations while trying to expand will perish or be purchased. Developers that stick to one platform as they do now (iPhone, Blackberry, Xbox Live Arcade, whatever) might eek out a living, maybe even be considered "well off," but again, good luck expanding and maintaining many platforms without investors and developers who have your back.
Or, since the barrier to entry is so low as far as blackhats are concerned, ALL systems end up being more insecure and virus-ridden and no one benefits.
Or virus-writers will pick, instead of the top 1, the top 5, or the top 50% of systems, and target those. Unless it were a truly heterogeneous network, with every single person having their own hand-crafted OS and application set, there will be viruses because people, dammit, want to see the dancing bunnies.
I think even the most uneducated juries (perhaps I'm being too generous) would understand the difference between making a backup and installing 1 copy on ten different computers, and making ten backups of the original disc and keeping them safe.
If your user interface lags behind by two hours and the UI is the only way to find out about the extremely complicated and intricate details coming out of a myriad of sensors that are inaccessible to people for safety reasons... I suppose you might be entirely wrong.
In this case, yes, the user interface was necessary for the operators to do their job. Are you going to tell me that submarine operators should rely on their "gut feeling" rather than a measurement of external pressure or depth to determine whether the submarine is safe? These are jobs that can't be done by even the most skilled operator because the information is completely walled off from them for the safety and integrity of the facility.
As far as I can tell, you're advocating that we should hire psychics to determine the safety of the nuclear plant and pay them exorbitantly because spending a single dime on a good interface is wasted money. Sometimes, a $50,000 idiot proof interface is exactly what's called for, rather than intentionally using outdated technology and hoping a printer will provide information fast enough to prevent imminent disaster.
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DHT allows trackerless distribution. That's why I mentioned it.
Microsoft and Akamai have a friendly relationship, but because they want to control the distribution they release everything on their site. That's something you really, truly, cannot do with torrents, because you can write your own torrent that ignores the tracker's rules on DHT.
No matter what your distribution method, you have to remember that they are distributing hundreds of terabytes of data over a tenuous and fragile internet infrastructure. It may not even be Microsoft's links that are failing when you start talking about that much data.
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Whine, whine, whine, I want free stuff, gimme free stuff, I guess guys like me don't deserve free stuff, so because I'm not getting anything for free I'm not gonna spend anything. TAKE THAT M$FT. It's total bullshit that you won't support a nine year old product and continue to sell it INDEFINITELY! TOTAL BULL MAN.
My 02c, YMMV.
I bought this off Steam when it was on sale for $50 or $45 or whatever:
Buy id Super Pack
Includes: Quake III Arena, Wolfenstein 3D, Ultimate DOOM, Final DOOM, DOOM II, QUAKE, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, QUAKE III: Team Arena, HeXen, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, Spear of Destiny, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, DOOM 3, HeXen II, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, Master Levels for Doom II, Commander Keen
Forgive me for intruding on such a dense conversation, but from what I've learned about Big O and related notations, but constants are removed.
That is, it makes no difference to say the problem is 2^n or (1/2)2^n, you assume that there may be some constant involved, but since the constant is meaningless when you're merely analyzing the trend over a large space of numbers, you disregard it and say, "Yes, it's 2^n."
I guess that would be the only problem I have with your post, am I incorrect in this or...?
Just to be a pedant, you actually have to have something a lot larger than a telephone pole. You tried to cover yourself by saying "made of tungsten," but I'm going to guess the deceleration would break or melt even the toughest of elements.
I was imagining a bunch of people exercising their right to bear arms against RIAA lawyers.
Or they could live near Harvard and endear a tenured law professor to their cause.
At first I read "If the Second Amendment ..." and I thought to myself, "What could possibly involve the RIAA and a right to bear arms... Oh. Oh... I see."
It's almost a pity it isn't true...
You can sign your own, and you can sign other people's, but you can't distribute them and expect them to work on everyone's machines.
Otherwise, what would the point of signing be?
* Ubuntu 9.04 is a lot like Ubuntu 8.10
* New theme is kind of cool but still not default.
* Default panels installed are still largely useless, taskbar fills up way too easily.
* Font size still wrong when I install it, Canonical and I have a game we play called "figure out where the DPI settings are hidden." It gets less fun every year. (In Windows 7, I type "DPI" into the start menu search.)
I don't really have a counterpoint to #5, except to say that every OS'es file manager and the related abstractions are, uh... "locked in." I don't know what you expect. There's nothing stopping you from looking at all the files in a library and performing regular actions on them. And soon, hopefully, many applications will support the library abstraction as a folder path. I.e.: in Songbird, make my music library refer to the OS'es Music Library. That way I can put the music I have on my server, my laptop, etc, all referenced in one place.
I don't know how more "open" you can get with Libraries though, what's your suggestion?
Don't you work for non-lawyers all the time? They defer to you because you -are- a lawyer, but I think you might have to rescind your comment :)
I do IT, and not everyone in the chain of command knows more than I do about IT. They do know more about other things, like management, or sales, or marketing. My job in IT is to enable them to do their jobs, and so I have to know a little bit about their job, and they have to know a little bit about mine, but that's all.
If we were to live in some upside down world where we demanded everyone paying us had to know more about what we're doing than we do, no one would get anything done. Why are they paying you if they know more than you?
And this applies to you too, Ray. Your clients pay you, or your firm, or however you have it set up, and they don't know nearly as much as you do. If they did, they wouldn't be paying you.
The difference between them and an ISP though, at least in the case of The Pirate Bay, is that they don't carry any information that's copyright, only information -about- material that's potentially copyright. How many blocks of what size are available, what the hashes are for those blocks, etc.
Google actually has copies of nearly everything on the internet.
F11.
It works on Chrome's Dev branch, which any self-respecting slashdotter would use to provide useful feedback to the developers of Chrome.
Actually it relies on the ratio of working people to retirees and the ratio of acceptable incomes between said groups.
Go and manually run anti virus software on every infected PC.
Not that kind of worm. It was purely a scripting attack involving javascript. No one's computers were harmed, only a bunch of twitter accounts. (Which can no doubt be fixed by patching the whole and some good SQL query to fix all the accounts in one go.)
Since the cold war, demand for uranium has dropped too. If we had more nuclear power plants, we'd have more mining capacity, and we'd have something that could bridge us over until widespread renewable energy adoption and/or fusion. (It's only 20 years away!!! Still...)
It's related to the broken window fallacy. The idea of the fallacy is that you assume because money has changed hands that something good is accomplished, but that is illogical. We know that what we've done is divert money from one pursuit to another, one that takes food off a whole lot of other people's tables solely to benefit the glassmaker.
So that's how I see this argument. Let's say instead of a rather homogeneous network of 94% Windows, 4% Mac and 3% Linux, we have twenty different OSes with 5% marketshare each.
Now the people who make crossplatform development tools need to work about 6.6 times harder, as the number of people that can be dedicated to each platform has fallen by 85%.
The people who make Wine probably would never have come about. It doesn't make sense to duplicate one OS's APIs because the amount of work involved is about the same, but the real gain is quite different. Instead of Linux (2-3% marketshare) being able to claim the same software compatibility as Windows (93% marketshare,) it'd be one 5% getting another 5%. And they'd have to repeat that amount of work 17 more times in order to claim the same level of compatibility that Wine does.
So ironically, open source and cross platform development became exhorbitantly more expensive in terms of man hours in order to accomplish the same things.
And that's with a mere 20 equally good operating systems on the market. That's still millions of PCs running any one OS, which is perfectly fine for the blackhats. Lucky for the blackhats: this heterogeonity hurts every other software industry, including antivirus companies who have to spread their resources over 20+ different platforms. They now get the ability to easily choose which platform is the least secure and least likely to have capable users sitting "between chair and keyboard."
There's a huge difference between the backing Blizzard has in branching out and hitting Mac and Linux (Wine) platforms, and supporting them, and what the real cost would be to an independent developer, and how difficult it would be to make that business case to investors and fellow developers.
I don't think you get it, or ever will.
Also, it suffers from the same problem as the "broken window" fallacy. If we increase the heterogeneity of the network, we increase the cost for ALL developers, regardless of the color of their hat. Suddenly for legitimate software developers whose margins actually are razor thin, they have to deal with doubling, tripling, quadrupling development costs to reach the same audience. Big companies with big margins and regular blockbuster titles can afford that, but small players cannot. Actually, the irony is that only the mid-size players would suffer. Companies on thin margins competing with major corporations while trying to expand will perish or be purchased. Developers that stick to one platform as they do now (iPhone, Blackberry, Xbox Live Arcade, whatever) might eek out a living, maybe even be considered "well off," but again, good luck expanding and maintaining many platforms without investors and developers who have your back.
Or, since the barrier to entry is so low as far as blackhats are concerned, ALL systems end up being more insecure and virus-ridden and no one benefits.
Or virus-writers will pick, instead of the top 1, the top 5, or the top 50% of systems, and target those. Unless it were a truly heterogeneous network, with every single person having their own hand-crafted OS and application set, there will be viruses because people, dammit, want to see the dancing bunnies.
Reference: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000347.html
I think even the most uneducated juries (perhaps I'm being too generous) would understand the difference between making a backup and installing 1 copy on ten different computers, and making ten backups of the original disc and keeping them safe.
I'm going to go ahead and throw out the idea that maybe the people who develop these SSDs are smart enough to realize that.
The stuff we pull out of the ground has a half life of millions of years and if accidentally inhaled or consumed, just as deadly.
The earth is chock full of radioactive goodness, and you're terrified of the fact that we're harnessing it? I don't get it.
If you consider radioactive material safe when it's in a mine, why is it suddenly no longer safe when we put radioactive waste into a mine shaft?
If your user interface lags behind by two hours and the UI is the only way to find out about the extremely complicated and intricate details coming out of a myriad of sensors that are inaccessible to people for safety reasons... I suppose you might be entirely wrong.
In this case, yes, the user interface was necessary for the operators to do their job. Are you going to tell me that submarine operators should rely on their "gut feeling" rather than a measurement of external pressure or depth to determine whether the submarine is safe? These are jobs that can't be done by even the most skilled operator because the information is completely walled off from them for the safety and integrity of the facility.
As far as I can tell, you're advocating that we should hire psychics to determine the safety of the nuclear plant and pay them exorbitantly because spending a single dime on a good interface is wasted money. Sometimes, a $50,000 idiot proof interface is exactly what's called for, rather than intentionally using outdated technology and hoping a printer will provide information fast enough to prevent imminent disaster.