I didn't complain about the price hike, I thought it was fair. I complained about Netflix calling a 60% hike a price cut. THAT was the bullshit move to me.
I'm surprised no one has discussed TCP window size. The TCP stack on both ends will need a huge amount of RAM, and even with that, I'm not sure how they are actually going to get the throughput needed if we're talking TCP/IP.
Perhaps UDP or some non-IP method. Remember, bandwidth != throughput.
My assumption there (or RetCon) was that it recorded the hail, then after it was spoken, sent it like a.wav file to the other comm badge. From the other comm badge's PoV, it was seamless. There would just be a few seconds delay on the first reply on the first one.
I totally agree that "competitive pressures" will result in very lax security.
I'm also totally in favor of that. Security checkpoints are a bigger security risk than letting people just walk onto a plane, as we do with trains, buses, and subways. The checkpoint is a perfect target for a shrapnel bomb to be set off: Long, snaking lines densely packed with people. It is also impossible to mitigate as you can't have a checkpoint before a checkpoint without running the same risk.
I know, but a PC in a "factory default" config will let you install a game & take the DVD back, while the game still works. If not, finding a single file to run on the PC to remove the CD/DVD check is trivial.
Hacking consoles is slightly more work, and is detected by the online gaming systems (XBL, PSN) more frequently.
Remember, consoles don't give you root by default, PCs do (for now).
Yet another games rental service that completely ignores PC gamers.
Or, responds to the lack of DRM on PCs combined with the legal risks of being labeled as "enabling piracy". Can't blame the rental service for getting the most bang for their buck.
Which highlights the advantage Apple iOS still has, very little device variation so something like this never seems to happen. The counterpoint is that there is very little device variation, so you can't get an Applie iOS device with a real keyboard, a real strobe flash, etc...
I'm sorry for their loss, and I fully support MUCH tougher penalties for drunk driving (or other crimes, like hitting cyclists). From the article you linked to, it sounds like your friends would be alive today if there was proper punishment for DUIs:
Records show Fred Russell has had other legal problems, including two charges of under-age drunken driving when he was 18 -one in Chico, Calif., to which he pleaded no contest, and another in Pullman, to which he pleaded guilty. No one was injured in either case.
But, in your mind, a smartphone app is to blame, not the legal system that still let that drunk back on the road, twice?
block apps which have no purpose other than letting people drink-drive.
I don't drink & drive, and I also don't enjoy waiting in a long line of cars going through a DUI checkpoint. Like all technology, there can be legal and illegal uses, or in this case, moral and immoral uses. Information about DUI checkpoints is required to be public.
Windows 7 shares no code with 6.5, which was a constant evolution of Windows CE. Frankly, they should have called it something completely different. It isn't a version bump, it is a totally different OS. Nothing from 6.5 can run on 7.
Still, that shows a trend of not dropping the previous game for the new one. Halo:Reach is 3rd, but Halo 3 (the previous Halo game, for non-xbox ppl), is 14th. MW2 at 2nd is showing HUGE support by comparison.
I don't think Netflix uses Akamai themselves, but I do know they use a service like it.
They did use Akamai, then switched to Level3. Remember that whole fiasco with Level 3 and Comcast? That was because Akamai paid Comcast for some stupid reason to make it so Comcast had less load on their peering points, and Level 3 didn't pay. Comcast wanted them to pay, and they did in the end. Very stupid, I would have just let Comcast oversubscribe their peering points & come back when they wanted to get the load off for free.
Assuming you watched them at all, did you also wait until all of the "Lord of the Rings" movies were available for one low price? After all, they wanted you to go to the movies 3 times, or buy 3 movies, even though they were all part of one story!
Your point doesn't take into account if 1/3 of the story is just as much entertainment as a full story of some other game.
Not a Starcraft 2 fanboy, I played Starcraft but have since moved to consoles.
Because Comcast is the only company that offers the service of 50mbps/10mbps Internet to my location.
And don't try to make the case that I COULD go and buy a DS-3 connection to my home. That's like saying I COULD have my own electric power plant to avoid paying to the local electric monopoly.
If "the free market" was allowed to decide, no areas outside major cities would have telephones or internet services. Unless they were willing to pay the thousands of dollars to run all the phone/cable lines to their house
For Internet service, this is reality. I've been getting multiple bids to get Internet service to an area that gets at best 19.2k dial-up in Indiana, and they range from $500/month and go up from there.
USF has worked moderately well for voice, but it does not yet have any impact on Internet.
Similarly, at my doctor's office the doctors themselves use wireless laptops to update patient information and send out prescriptions. This is of course stupid because there is utterly no security through something like this. I'm sure the connection is not through a VPN or SSL because wireless is encrypted, right?
I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about. If you assume WiFi is no more secure than the internet, then wireless or hardwired are just as secure. Every doctor's office I've seen is too small for local servers, most are using some SaaS product that is over the Internet, so again, they use VPN or SSL to get there.
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I didn't complain about the price hike, I thought it was fair. I complained about Netflix calling a 60% hike a price cut. THAT was the bullshit move to me.
Said better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfdpcrOgUp4
I'm surprised no one has discussed TCP window size. The TCP stack on both ends will need a huge amount of RAM, and even with that, I'm not sure how they are actually going to get the throughput needed if we're talking TCP/IP.
Perhaps UDP or some non-IP method. Remember, bandwidth != throughput.
My assumption there (or RetCon) was that it recorded the hail, then after it was spoken, sent it like a .wav file to the other comm badge. From the other comm badge's PoV, it was seamless. There would just be a few seconds delay on the first reply on the first one.
You clearly have not used G.722 before.
I totally agree that "competitive pressures" will result in very lax security.
I'm also totally in favor of that. Security checkpoints are a bigger security risk than letting people just walk onto a plane, as we do with trains, buses, and subways. The checkpoint is a perfect target for a shrapnel bomb to be set off: Long, snaking lines densely packed with people. It is also impossible to mitigate as you can't have a checkpoint before a checkpoint without running the same risk.
Life is risk. Accept it & deal with it.
And when they want another 25 billion, what then? Pay it or invade someone that has 20 billion more money invested into weapons? GOTO 10.
We're out of coal that we can get from a mine for the most part.
Now we cut off the tops of mountains to get it. It might be there to get, but the cost of extraction (to the environment) has been skyrocketing.
Right, and how is any Steam game going to work more than once for rental?
Perhaps I should have said "rentable" games, e.g., games that are not linked with an online account like Steam.
I know, but a PC in a "factory default" config will let you install a game & take the DVD back, while the game still works. If not, finding a single file to run on the PC to remove the CD/DVD check is trivial.
Hacking consoles is slightly more work, and is detected by the online gaming systems (XBL, PSN) more frequently.
Remember, consoles don't give you root by default, PCs do (for now).
Or, responds to the lack of DRM on PCs combined with the legal risks of being labeled as "enabling piracy".
Can't blame the rental service for getting the most bang for their buck.
Says even more about the citizens who elect them, or though inaction, allow them to be elected.
Which highlights the advantage Apple iOS still has, very little device variation so something like this never seems to happen.
The counterpoint is that there is very little device variation, so you can't get an Applie iOS device with a real keyboard, a real strobe flash, etc...
Since DUI checkpoints are illegal under Washington state constitution, the parents of your friends won't be waiting for any checkpoint.
http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/bystate/wa.html
I'm sorry for their loss, and I fully support MUCH tougher penalties for drunk driving (or other crimes, like hitting cyclists). From the article you linked to, it sounds like your friends would be alive today if there was proper punishment for DUIs:
But, in your mind, a smartphone app is to blame, not the legal system that still let that drunk back on the road, twice?
I don't drink & drive, and I also don't enjoy waiting in a long line of cars going through a DUI checkpoint.
Like all technology, there can be legal and illegal uses, or in this case, moral and immoral uses. Information about DUI checkpoints is required to be public.
Actually, "done at 3" can mean that the STORY was done at 3, in terms of chronology.
The order of games released is 1,2,3,ODST,Reach.
However, their chronological order is Reach,1,2,ODST,3. From that point of view, 3 is the last one still, and I'm pretty sure that's what they meant.
Windows 7 shares no code with 6.5, which was a constant evolution of Windows CE.
Frankly, they should have called it something completely different. It isn't a version bump, it is a totally different OS. Nothing from 6.5 can run on 7.
MW2 is just behind Black Ops on XBL: http://majornelson.com/2011/05/25/live-activity-for-week-of-may-16/
Still, that shows a trend of not dropping the previous game for the new one. Halo:Reach is 3rd, but Halo 3 (the previous Halo game, for non-xbox ppl), is 14th. MW2 at 2nd is showing HUGE support by comparison.
They did use Akamai, then switched to Level3. Remember that whole fiasco with Level 3 and Comcast? That was because Akamai paid Comcast for some stupid reason to make it so Comcast had less load on their peering points, and Level 3 didn't pay. Comcast wanted them to pay, and they did in the end.
Very stupid, I would have just let Comcast oversubscribe their peering points & come back when they wanted to get the load off for free.
...and the science gets done & we make a neat gun for the worms that are...still alive.
Can't you denounce your citizenship?
Assuming you watched them at all, did you also wait until all of the "Lord of the Rings" movies were available for one low price? After all, they wanted you to go to the movies 3 times, or buy 3 movies, even though they were all part of one story!
Your point doesn't take into account if 1/3 of the story is just as much entertainment as a full story of some other game.
Not a Starcraft 2 fanboy, I played Starcraft but have since moved to consoles.
Because Comcast is the only company that offers the service of 50mbps/10mbps Internet to my location.
And don't try to make the case that I COULD go and buy a DS-3 connection to my home. That's like saying I COULD have my own electric power plant to avoid paying to the local electric monopoly.
In the USA, power companies must get permission for rate increases from the government. They're a public utility.
For Internet service, this is reality. I've been getting multiple bids to get Internet service to an area that gets at best 19.2k dial-up in Indiana, and they range from $500/month and go up from there.
USF has worked moderately well for voice, but it does not yet have any impact on Internet.
I'm pretty sure you don't know what you're talking about. If you assume WiFi is no more secure than the internet, then wireless or hardwired are just as secure.
Every doctor's office I've seen is too small for local servers, most are using some SaaS product that is over the Internet, so again, they use VPN or SSL to get there.