I didn't have an opinion until I looked up "live pigeon shoot". Instead of using "clay pigeons", frisbees made out of clay, for target practice...they have caged, live pigeons, release them, and then try and shoot them...for practice. I hate PETA, never heard of SHARK, and that still seems wrong.
Does this mean all of the blocky graphics have been fixed? I don't play any games that don't at least use shader model 3. Gameplay is secondary to graphics in my book.
Eventually, someday, there will be legislation to prevent this. I'd have to imagine that any decentralized, mesh network is going to be much slower than any throttle these ISPs put on the traffic.
Not sure if sarcastic, or truthful. Funny enough, I just switched from Ubuntu to Mint because Unity is terrible and for some reason I can't get Gnome Shell to run on 11.10....not that the default Gnome Shell is that much better.
You're right in that you can't expect the vendors to do it themselves. It's going to have to be baked into the spec (ie. they can't call it wireless N unless it supports the following features). Obviously too late for Wireless N, but a point for future specs.
I find it largely annoying that "Wireless N" doesn't imply support for 5GHz. Many "Wireless N" devices only support 2.4GHz and most are bad at labeling whether they support 5GHz or not. It makes it difficult if you're looking for devices that support 5GHz "Wireless N".
From a cost perspective, I understand why they might only support 2.4GHz. I just wish they called it something else, like "Wireless NS" or something.
What about universities that do research? Many widely used technologies came from university R&D and most of them have no intention of actually implementing what they're researching. I think the issue is more with what can be patented and how long items can be patented.
I just installed it for the first time on my router yesterday (linksys e2000.) Easy to install and it's working well. Good QOS is nearly mandatory in my house.
Ubuntu 10.04 server with Virtualmin installed. Makes managing one or more websites dead simple. It has one click install for phpBB through virtualmin, has php5.3, and MySQL 5.x. I use this config in a small commercial setting and it's been working well for years. My boss is a MS junkie, so it had to be easy if I was going to deploy a LAMP stack. Without webmin/virtualmin, I'm not sure we'd have any Linux servers...
I administer ~10 Ubuntu Server systems, so I'm no sop. My wife uses her laptop for basic stuff: facebook, email, type a paper, and media. She's not amazing with computers, but she's better than most. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 and set it to the classic Gnome. I even put MS Office 07 running under Wine because the docx support is still not quite there in libreoffice. She loves the idea of moving to Ubuntu, but after about 2 weeks, she insisted to be put back to Windows.
Chrome wouldn't run many of her Facebook games. It worked fine in Firefox and works fine in Chrome on Windows.
Full screen flash videos drop frames left and right, they played fine in Windows.
The final thing that pushed her over was the torrent software. Transmission sucks compared to uTorrent and Vuze is a joke (I wish Azureus was still developed.) When you visit the uTorrent site in a Linux browser, it tries to get you to install some "command line only" version of their software...and it's not even clear about that. I know it will run in Wine, but you have to dig to find the Windows version when you visit their site on Linux. She was frustrated because she had to come to me to install new software that wasn't in a repository.
HTTPS also requires a dedicated public IP, so you can't share your IP with other websites. Many cheap hosting environments have many websites running on the same IP.
This is no excuse for people like Facebook, Twitter, or other big names, but this is one reason why *all* websites don't use HTTPS.
For the most part, a cert can only be used for one website. Shared IP hosting uses the host header in the HTTP 1.1 protocol to determine which website to deliver when it receives a request on an IP that hosts multiple websites. The problem with HTTPS is it encrypts the host header, so the web server doesn't know which website to deliver. It can't decrypt the traffic until it knows which cert to use, which it could determine using the host header (which it can't get until it decrypts the traffic.) Chicken and egg scenario...
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I didn't have an opinion until I looked up "live pigeon shoot". Instead of using "clay pigeons", frisbees made out of clay, for target practice...they have caged, live pigeons, release them, and then try and shoot them...for practice. I hate PETA, never heard of SHARK, and that still seems wrong.
The rest of the world is on metric, but we're on *lalalalalalal*
The rest of the world got rid of their "penny", we *lalalalalla*
The rest of the world signed the Kyoto Protocol, but we *alalallala*
The rest of the world dislikes war, but we *alallala*
How will they validate that the employee that was turned in really vandalized the data? Witch hunt?
Tell a thirteen year old they can't sign up for something they want and you'll see how many of them were born in 1990.
Just transferred my domains to Namecheap. Thanks for the recommendations.
It's taking a decent while for the transfer to happen. I wonder if they are being "slammed" with transfers?
Does this mean all of the blocky graphics have been fixed? I don't play any games that don't at least use shader model 3. Gameplay is secondary to graphics in my book.
Eventually, someday, there will be legislation to prevent this. I'd have to imagine that any decentralized, mesh network is going to be much slower than any throttle these ISPs put on the traffic.
I just got a notice from the Steam client with pretty much the exact wording above.
Not sure if sarcastic, or truthful. Funny enough, I just switched from Ubuntu to Mint because Unity is terrible and for some reason I can't get Gnome Shell to run on 11.10....not that the default Gnome Shell is that much better.
Not to mention dual monitors....
You're right in that you can't expect the vendors to do it themselves. It's going to have to be baked into the spec (ie. they can't call it wireless N unless it supports the following features). Obviously too late for Wireless N, but a point for future specs.
I find it largely annoying that "Wireless N" doesn't imply support for 5GHz. Many "Wireless N" devices only support 2.4GHz and most are bad at labeling whether they support 5GHz or not. It makes it difficult if you're looking for devices that support 5GHz "Wireless N".
From a cost perspective, I understand why they might only support 2.4GHz. I just wish they called it something else, like "Wireless NS" or something.
I hear investing in boomerang production is a good buy...I hear they comeback
What about universities that do research? Many widely used technologies came from university R&D and most of them have no intention of actually implementing what they're researching. I think the issue is more with what can be patented and how long items can be patented.
My provider isn't doing anything as far as I can see, even bittorrent runs at full speed. I think you may be thinking of the priority bit on IP6 traffic, because QOS at the router level is different http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service#Priorities_explained .
I just installed it for the first time on my router yesterday (linksys e2000.) Easy to install and it's working well. Good QOS is nearly mandatory in my house.
Ubuntu 10.04 server with Virtualmin installed. Makes managing one or more websites dead simple. It has one click install for phpBB through virtualmin, has php5.3, and MySQL 5.x. I use this config in a small commercial setting and it's been working well for years. My boss is a MS junkie, so it had to be easy if I was going to deploy a LAMP stack. Without webmin/virtualmin, I'm not sure we'd have any Linux servers...
They are finally serving their "Tweet Button" widget via SSL. This has long been a thorn in my side.
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
I administer ~10 Ubuntu Server systems, so I'm no sop. My wife uses her laptop for basic stuff: facebook, email, type a paper, and media. She's not amazing with computers, but she's better than most. I installed Ubuntu 11.04 and set it to the classic Gnome. I even put MS Office 07 running under Wine because the docx support is still not quite there in libreoffice. She loves the idea of moving to Ubuntu, but after about 2 weeks, she insisted to be put back to Windows.
Chrome wouldn't run many of her Facebook games. It worked fine in Firefox and works fine in Chrome on Windows.
Full screen flash videos drop frames left and right, they played fine in Windows.
The final thing that pushed her over was the torrent software. Transmission sucks compared to uTorrent and Vuze is a joke (I wish Azureus was still developed.) When you visit the uTorrent site in a Linux browser, it tries to get you to install some "command line only" version of their software...and it's not even clear about that. I know it will run in Wine, but you have to dig to find the Windows version when you visit their site on Linux. She was frustrated because she had to come to me to install new software that wasn't in a repository.
This reminded me of an old Slashdot article about Evercookie http://samy.pl/evercookie/
The rapture is coming June 27th! I have done the calculations myself and can say with absolute certainty that this is an accurate date.
I suppose the fact that they have location data where you park every night won't help locate you either.
Does anyone in Texas still believe in science?
HTTPS also requires a dedicated public IP, so you can't share your IP with other websites. Many cheap hosting environments have many websites running on the same IP. This is no excuse for people like Facebook, Twitter, or other big names, but this is one reason why *all* websites don't use HTTPS. For the most part, a cert can only be used for one website. Shared IP hosting uses the host header in the HTTP 1.1 protocol to determine which website to deliver when it receives a request on an IP that hosts multiple websites. The problem with HTTPS is it encrypts the host header, so the web server doesn't know which website to deliver. It can't decrypt the traffic until it knows which cert to use, which it could determine using the host header (which it can't get until it decrypts the traffic.) Chicken and egg scenario...
OP here. May I offer my formal "Whoopsies."