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- Atario, on 11/08/2009, -1/+35THIS ***** DRAGON AGE AD SUCKS
- Iamien, on 11/08/2009, -1/+22***** these content wrapping advertisements.
And before I hear, "Use adblock Plus" know that the page format is still messed up when the image is blocked. - spookyttws, on 11/08/2009, -1/+16I came here to make some stupid joke about how hard it is to keep my wifi working on my experimental space craft but I'm with you guys- this Dragon Age wrapping is ***** up. I'm normally annoyed by ads like this and largely ignore them. But the way this is ***** is implemented actually ***** up the layout. It's more than intrusive, it's disruptive to Digg itself.
Edit:It also seems to be tied only to this story. I don't see it on any of the other comment pages. - lnxfi, on 11/08/2009, -0/+9If I can't Twitter on Mars, then ***** it!
- Barackalypse, on 11/08/2009, -1/+6So, uh, where can I Digg down this ad so it costs them so much to display it that they never do it again?
- Unikraken, on 11/08/2009, -2/+6Digg, these new ads...
I am disappoint. - TyrelVnne, on 11/08/2009, -0/+3The internet just kicked it up a notch. Science is the sweetest.
- Kragit, on 11/08/2009, -0/+3FTA "His team has already tested the protocol in northern Sweden on laptops speeding away from each other in all-terrain vehicles."
That's not something you see every day... - kiwi00man, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2Ad Block Plus to the rescue (although the wide margins remain). Lets hope this sort of advert will not be the norm on Digg!!!
- Eurynom0s, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2So uh my display of this page seems to be working fine?
This ties back to something I saw online a while ago though, which was basically to the effect that of all the old TechTV people Kevin and Alex would probably be the first to whore themselves out for a paycheck. And other experiences also (including just watching Diggnation) support that. I haven't seen much of Pat or Leo lately, I've seen more of Pat so I'll just say, I still trust Pat but Kevin and Alex...well sort of but I keep a much sharper eye on them when they start praising things and suggesting I should use them - KingGorilla, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2Oh that's what it was. Ad fail
- Barackalypse, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2I'm much more interested in its ability to totally avoid any sort of controls any terrestrial Governments may seek to impose on the transmission of traffic. Space is beyond the jurisdiction of all of them.
- rockets, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2Android, heck yeah!
- cfuse, on 11/08/2009, -0/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible#Origin
"The word ansible was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel, Rocannon's World."
Still, I prefer the urban legend that it is an anagram of the word lesbian. - masonga95, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Glad to see they're making something to finally succeed TCP.
Packets start going everywhere when a connection breaks. - MSP1, on 11/08/2009, -1/+2No it's not. You just get black bars down the outsides of the page.
- Kragit, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1AGREED
- Atario, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1It is on several others. I'm not sure of the pattern, but it is specific stories.
- KibibyteBrain, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1The whole point of the OSI layer architecture is that things should be done in the proper layer when they are the general case when possible. UDP is a non-solution; it is essentially a bypass of the Transport Layer providing only the most minimal functionality required of that layer, used when the application is too demanding for any kind of heavier implementation(like streaming video, realtime interaction).
So saying you should just use UDP is essentially the same as saying that TCP is not good enough for the modern world. There should be a Transport Layer protocol that provides something beyond "best effort" delivery that works, being this is what most Internet applications need and having everyone reinvent their own implementation on top of UDP is a really ugly "solution". - cfuse, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1I don't begrudge them a living. As long as there is more content than ad (and they've seriously ***** the mix up on this occasion), and that ads are disclosed as being ads (which hasn't ever been an issue with them to my knowledge).
Nobody loves ads, but they are certainly preferable to paying or going without. - penholder, on 11/08/2009, -0/+1Someone call Orson Scott Card, he already thought up the Ansible.
- glasszach, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1Can I have a Disruption-Tolerant Network here? Please?
- JudgeMonkey, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1Sheesh, always with these. Are you so mentally deficient that if you see an ad you are afraid it will force you to buy the item or something? Just look at the damn story and don't worry about it.
Christ, simpletons.
Why is some damn background image all anyone can talk about instead of the stories? I'm not sure if it's some retarded form of OCD or ADD, though I guess if it was ADD you wouldn't all be so fixated on it for so long. - SquidLips, on 11/08/2009, -0/+0
I have actually done quite a bit of UDP socket programming once to implement (imitate) an NFS server. It was quite easy to use (at least on the server side). You're right though; it could use a higher layer so that you do not need to worry packet re-assembly, out-of-order packets and timeouts; I had to do this myself, but it was not too hard. Is there such a connectionless protocol on top of UDP? - gamepr0, on 11/08/2009, -1/+1this userstyle should do the job:
body {
background: rgb(229, 236, 243) !important;
}
#container {
min-width: 1200px !important;
}
to remove other ads as well:
.ad {
display: none !important;
}
tested with stylish for firefox and glimmerblocker for safari. - SquidLips, on 11/08/2009, -0/+0
Ah wait wait. How about UDP? UDP is delay tolerant and interrupt tolerant and fast. Using UDP instead of TCP you do not have a connection so there is no connection to break. You just have to build re-transmission (and timeout) on top of it as NFS does (clone the open source NFS socket code). Easy. What's the big fuss?
This is actually a rather important issue. I wonder what protocol mobile devices use.. - AndrewMoyer, on 11/08/2009, -2/+1The summary screams, "SKYNET!"
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