Are you kidding? I've DDoS'd every webserver and website I've ever built. It's how to find it's weaknesses, so that you can identify performance bottlenecks under stress and fix them.
Perhaps, that's why none of my websites have ever gone down from too much traffic. Coincidence perhaps. Maybe others just aren't doing it often enough. See: slashdot effect.
Would you prefer your organs went to incarcerated criminals to insure they live long enough to serve the longest maximum sentence before they die? Or was it the street corner wineo that you were concerned about?
It's exactly like reselling. Why isn't it? Calbe TV is just a stupid cable signal. Why should they care whether the cable runs to the basement or across the yard to the neighbors (or in apartment/condos, through the wall).
It's a limitation. One that you agreed to when you signed up. You also can't run a cable TV cable to your neighbors house. Nor can you resell internet services using your home internet connection. Nor can you turn your car into a taxi and use your personal car insurance.
Simple. I'd continue to do what I love, and do projects that interested me.
Sure, I might live in a (slightly) better house, and drive a better car when I do, but I'd still be programming. It would just be what I wanted to program.. regardless of if or when it ever made money. Some of it may be to betterment of mankind. Some of it may be just because I want to. Maybe take a class or two at a good college to brush up on some of the newer theories.
Enable a few more people who show a love for what I do, to do more. Fund a few start ups with people who are truly passionate about their work... even if it never turns a profit.
I'd take a few more vacations with the same friends I always have had, and make a few new friends, regardless of status or wealth. Maybe even make a few people's dreams come true.
Sorry, Microsoft's Exchange Web Client was in beta in 1995, and released in 1997. Gmail was in beta in 2004, and released in 2009. Pick between them, either a 9 year lead, or 12 year lead. In either case, google had no "innovation" and just copied what Microsoft originally did.
Other contributions that come to mind are wide spread adoption of TCP Offload, Selective ACK, Window Scaling on the OS side. There are a number of other great improvements that they may not have invented, but brought mainstream... Prioritized I/O being one of the best. As far as research, their advances in speech recognition and machine learning is impressive.
Filesystems -- FAT32 and NTFS, the later still being very good even today.
Meanwhile, guess what happened when AJAX did finally come around? Microsoft saw their freemail dominance in purchased hotmail fall flat on its face, as gmail's web interface was even faster than the copy of Outlook that most people ran natively on their desktop (the gig of email space was just to get people in, but the webUI was the real innovation there, which unlike hotmail, didn't require a full page reload every time you clicked anything.)
You mean the AJAX web client that google copied from Microsoft's Exchange Web Client that was released 7 years prior to gmail (1997 vs 2004)?
AT&T got in trouble for throttling data after reaching a secret limit
They did? Seems that all that happened is that the not-so-secret limit is now really-no-so-secret. And it's changed at least once so far, but they still throttle after reaching the limit.
My average month is ~250MB, but occasionally, I'll have a month where I'll hit 5GB, at which point my connection gets dropped to EDGE speeds. If they didn't do that, I would probably eat 100GB in a month pretty easily. Even though I'm on AT&T's "unlimited" data plan, I've always known it wasn't entirely unlimited and you get throttled at ~3-5GB for the remainder of the month, so I don't/can't stream video to my phone. Any movies/TV shows I want on my phone, I sync to it over wifi ahead of time instead of stream it over the cellular network. If I forget to do that, and I stream it to my phone then I'll hit the cap on the first movie I watch (which I do once every few months).
No. Here in the US, both cable (Comcast, Timewarner, Suddenlink, etc) and DSL (AT&T) have data usage caps of around 250GB-450GB/mo. 2TB/mo isn't even a reasonable option (some plans you can buy more bandwidth at something like $50 for every 50GB, so 2TB/mo would be ~$2k/mo). On a mobile that's beyond silly to expect.
Why lie? "practically unlimited" means in practice it has no limits. What a crock. Why not just write the entire subscriber agreements in huge 72 point type? Change the billboards to be a sequence of 50 billboards so that all the conditions can be in huge print so people don't claim they didn't read the fine print. You know the fine print is there for a reason. If you choose not to read it so that you can go on blindly believing whatever you want, then don't complain when you get proven wrong.
Yes, I don't use the concierge in my car because you have to subscribe to it, and I'd really only use it 2-3 times a year. I'd rather just pay the $10 each time, but that isn't an option.
Mobile router is useless, I'd just use my phone, or buy the AT&T mobile router and plug it into one of my cars USB ports for power (or the cigarette lighter).
Don't need an automated parking system.
I love my HUD.
The only app I use is Pandora, because I click the button and leave it alone.
As for what I want... Just display my phone screen on the bigger screen, and allow me to stream in whatever audio I want from my phone to my speakers (optionally, a button to start Siri and pipe my car's mic to the phone). Otherwise, I want nothing of my "entertainment system". My phone is so much better, and when I get a new one in two years it'll be even better, but my car entertainment system which was much more expensive, will stay the same crappy system forever.
Oh, and the GPS itself is terrible. It's slow, and the points of interest database is so bad it is virtually useless. If you subscribe to onstar however, you can use their app (or through through talking to them) to get a location from google and then send it to the GPS which will then get you there. Voice recognition is more of a joke I use with my son... "Navigate to Studio Movie Grill" -> "Did you mean slush puppy drivein?" -> "No, Studio Movie Grill" -> "Did you mean Arby's?" -> "??? WTF, No, Studio Movie Grill" -> "Did you mean Holiday Inn?" -> "????"
The corvette's doesn't have oil and gas indicators on the HUD (at least I don't mine configured that way, and I don't recall any option to do so). But I agree with the Grim Reefer. I definitely like my HUD. It's not a killer deal in off track driving, but it is very nice and you can see your speed and tach without taking your eyes off the road.
The fastest DSL currently is ~200Mbps, which is many times faster than most people's cable connection. It's just not widely deployed, so depends on your area. DSL should hit 1Gbps next year.
Not impossible. Tell it to write to disk, wait for it to say it has. Then cut power to the drive, wait 30 seconds, reestablish power, then ask for the data back. If it isn't the same, repeat until it is. It'll be slow, and likely kill your drives, but you can be reasonably sure the drive did indeed write the data.
What world do you live in? I never get PDFs. It is almost always.doc,.docx,.xls, or.xlsx formats. It has always been that way no matter what the business was. That includes healthcare, manufacturing, accounting, advertising, government, financial, education, and pure research.
Well, except that Excel has the ability to query not only SQL, but also Oracle, DB2, MariaDB, other Excel spreadsheets, web pages, and flat files. LibreOffice... None.
Current versions of Windows were never "designed" to be single user. Sure the older Windows 3.x and 9x lines were single-user, but XP was based on the NT architecture which was multi-user from the get-go.
Linux programs can store their data and settings pretty much anywhere too (anywhere they have access to), but the vast majority do store them in someplace sane. However, there is a lot of really bad Windows programs out there that store things in stupid places. That is hardly the OS's fault however, and no mainstream apps do. The registry for user preferences, and AppData (or what the program thinks is the Program Files directory, which the OS remaps to Program Data or AppData depending). It's really not all that different.
Some applications do store things in the registry during install (they COULD just put them there on first run if they don't exist, which makes a LOT more sense), but again, that's up to the application to do. Perhaps it is time for Windows to actually start enforcing applications to stop doing stupid things rather than cave to allowing badly written apps to continue to function.
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Are you kidding? I've DDoS'd every webserver and website I've ever built. It's how to find it's weaknesses, so that you can identify performance bottlenecks under stress and fix them.
Perhaps, that's why none of my websites have ever gone down from too much traffic. Coincidence perhaps. Maybe others just aren't doing it often enough. See: slashdot effect.
Please respond if you haven't been arrest yet.
Would you prefer your organs went to incarcerated criminals to insure they live long enough to serve the longest maximum sentence before they die? Or was it the street corner wineo that you were concerned about?
It's exactly like reselling. Why isn't it? Calbe TV is just a stupid cable signal. Why should they care whether the cable runs to the basement or across the yard to the neighbors (or in apartment/condos, through the wall).
It's a limitation. One that you agreed to when you signed up. You also can't run a cable TV cable to your neighbors house. Nor can you resell internet services using your home internet connection. Nor can you turn your car into a taxi and use your personal car insurance.
Simple. I'd continue to do what I love, and do projects that interested me.
Sure, I might live in a (slightly) better house, and drive a better car when I do, but I'd still be programming. It would just be what I wanted to program.. regardless of if or when it ever made money. Some of it may be to betterment of mankind. Some of it may be just because I want to. Maybe take a class or two at a good college to brush up on some of the newer theories.
Enable a few more people who show a love for what I do, to do more. Fund a few start ups with people who are truly passionate about their work... even if it never turns a profit.
I'd take a few more vacations with the same friends I always have had, and make a few new friends, regardless of status or wealth. Maybe even make a few people's dreams come true.
And I'd still be programming.
Sorry, Microsoft's Exchange Web Client was in beta in 1995, and released in 1997. Gmail was in beta in 2004, and released in 2009. Pick between them, either a 9 year lead, or 12 year lead. In either case, google had no "innovation" and just copied what Microsoft originally did.
Other contributions that come to mind are wide spread adoption of TCP Offload, Selective ACK, Window Scaling on the OS side. There are a number of other great improvements that they may not have invented, but brought mainstream... Prioritized I/O being one of the best. As far as research, their advances in speech recognition and machine learning is impressive.
Filesystems -- FAT32 and NTFS, the later still being very good even today.
Meanwhile, guess what happened when AJAX did finally come around? Microsoft saw their freemail dominance in purchased hotmail fall flat on its face, as gmail's web interface was even faster than the copy of Outlook that most people ran natively on their desktop (the gig of email space was just to get people in, but the webUI was the real innovation there, which unlike hotmail, didn't require a full page reload every time you clicked anything.)
You mean the AJAX web client that google copied from Microsoft's Exchange Web Client that was released 7 years prior to gmail (1997 vs 2004)?
It is not a violation of net neutrality. What does it violate? Your sense of entitlement?
AT&T got in trouble for throttling data after reaching a secret limit
They did? Seems that all that happened is that the not-so-secret limit is now really-no-so-secret. And it's changed at least once so far, but they still throttle after reaching the limit.
My average month is ~250MB, but occasionally, I'll have a month where I'll hit 5GB, at which point my connection gets dropped to EDGE speeds. If they didn't do that, I would probably eat 100GB in a month pretty easily. Even though I'm on AT&T's "unlimited" data plan, I've always known it wasn't entirely unlimited and you get throttled at ~3-5GB for the remainder of the month, so I don't/can't stream video to my phone. Any movies/TV shows I want on my phone, I sync to it over wifi ahead of time instead of stream it over the cellular network. If I forget to do that, and I stream it to my phone then I'll hit the cap on the first movie I watch (which I do once every few months).
Or do a full backup of my phone, daily... ~3TB.
No. Here in the US, both cable (Comcast, Timewarner, Suddenlink, etc) and DSL (AT&T) have data usage caps of around 250GB-450GB/mo. 2TB/mo isn't even a reasonable option (some plans you can buy more bandwidth at something like $50 for every 50GB, so 2TB/mo would be ~$2k/mo). On a mobile that's beyond silly to expect.
Why lie? "practically unlimited" means in practice it has no limits. What a crock. Why not just write the entire subscriber agreements in huge 72 point type? Change the billboards to be a sequence of 50 billboards so that all the conditions can be in huge print so people don't claim they didn't read the fine print. You know the fine print is there for a reason. If you choose not to read it so that you can go on blindly believing whatever you want, then don't complain when you get proven wrong.
How do you propose it does a man in the middle attack and NOT work as a bridge?
Yes, I don't use the concierge in my car because you have to subscribe to it, and I'd really only use it 2-3 times a year. I'd rather just pay the $10 each time, but that isn't an option.
Mobile router is useless, I'd just use my phone, or buy the AT&T mobile router and plug it into one of my cars USB ports for power (or the cigarette lighter).
Don't need an automated parking system.
I love my HUD.
The only app I use is Pandora, because I click the button and leave it alone.
As for what I want... Just display my phone screen on the bigger screen, and allow me to stream in whatever audio I want from my phone to my speakers (optionally, a button to start Siri and pipe my car's mic to the phone). Otherwise, I want nothing of my "entertainment system". My phone is so much better, and when I get a new one in two years it'll be even better, but my car entertainment system which was much more expensive, will stay the same crappy system forever.
Oh, and the GPS itself is terrible. It's slow, and the points of interest database is so bad it is virtually useless. If you subscribe to onstar however, you can use their app (or through through talking to them) to get a location from google and then send it to the GPS which will then get you there. Voice recognition is more of a joke I use with my son... "Navigate to Studio Movie Grill" -> "Did you mean slush puppy drivein?" -> "No, Studio Movie Grill" -> "Did you mean Arby's?" -> "??? WTF, No, Studio Movie Grill" -> "Did you mean Holiday Inn?" -> "????"
The corvette's doesn't have oil and gas indicators on the HUD (at least I don't mine configured that way, and I don't recall any option to do so). But I agree with the Grim Reefer. I definitely like my HUD. It's not a killer deal in off track driving, but it is very nice and you can see your speed and tach without taking your eyes off the road.
The fastest DSL currently is ~200Mbps, which is many times faster than most people's cable connection. It's just not widely deployed, so depends on your area. DSL should hit 1Gbps next year.
Using prisoners, if it failed 2/6ths of the time, it would tell me I'd stop having to pay to house 333 inmates.
Not impossible. Tell it to write to disk, wait for it to say it has. Then cut power to the drive, wait 30 seconds, reestablish power, then ask for the data back. If it isn't the same, repeat until it is. It'll be slow, and likely kill your drives, but you can be reasonably sure the drive did indeed write the data.
No. My ISP should be a big dumb pipe until I say otherwise. It shouldn't be touching my traffic, ever.
What world do you live in? I never get PDFs. It is almost always .doc, .docx, .xls, or .xlsx formats. It has always been that way no matter what the business was. That includes healthcare, manufacturing, accounting, advertising, government, financial, education, and pure research.
Well, except that Excel has the ability to query not only SQL, but also Oracle, DB2, MariaDB, other Excel spreadsheets, web pages, and flat files. LibreOffice... None.
I'd say if you are using Excel to write letters to your grandkids, you are doing it wrong.
Current versions of Windows were never "designed" to be single user. Sure the older Windows 3.x and 9x lines were single-user, but XP was based on the NT architecture which was multi-user from the get-go.
Linux programs can store their data and settings pretty much anywhere too (anywhere they have access to), but the vast majority do store them in someplace sane. However, there is a lot of really bad Windows programs out there that store things in stupid places. That is hardly the OS's fault however, and no mainstream apps do. The registry for user preferences, and AppData (or what the program thinks is the Program Files directory, which the OS remaps to Program Data or AppData depending). It's really not all that different.
Some applications do store things in the registry during install (they COULD just put them there on first run if they don't exist, which makes a LOT more sense), but again, that's up to the application to do. Perhaps it is time for Windows to actually start enforcing applications to stop doing stupid things rather than cave to allowing badly written apps to continue to function.