You know, that could be part of it. They say that people can memorize about 7 random digits, plus or minus 2. An IPv4 address is already 12 digits, and that's hard enough for a human to memorize, but IPv6 is 18 digits! As it is, phone numbers are only 10 digits in the USA.
I'm not saying that IPv6 is a bad idea, but that might explain people's reluctance to adopt it until the need forces the change.
As much of the world nears an Internet address crunch, North America stands as an island apart, threatening to fragment plans for the biggest overhaul of the Web in decades.
Learn more about Net addresses
Global momentum is growing for a new address system, known as IPv6, which promises to vastly expand the pool of unique numbers available for connecting PCs and other devices to the Net. The standard is widely seen as a necessary successor to the current IPv4 system, which some fear could run short of addresses in Asia and Europe within the next few years.
But few analysts expect the problem to affect North America and influential U.S. networks any time soon, thanks to unique conditions that will likely guarantee the region a steady supply of IPv4 addresses for years to come. Since fear of an address shortage is the single biggest argument in favor of a switch, the United States could stay on the sidelines as the rest of the world wrestles with the upgrade over the coming years, networking experts said.
The United States may not see a shortfall because it was granted an enormous number of addresses in the original worldwide allotment.
"Asia hits a problem in two or three years time," said Ovum analyst Iain Stevenson. "You won't see similar problems in other regions for four or five years. And in North America you won't see a problem at all."
The prospects of a costly Internet address overhaul in the United States is in the spotlight following an endorsement of IPv6 last month from the Defense Department. The $30 billion-a-year agency plans to move all its networks to the new Net address standard by 2008, fueling speculation that the switch--already under way in Japan and other parts of the world--may at last be at hand in the United States.
The Defense Department's endorsement could hasten the availability of IPv6 equipment around the world, helping ease expected address squeezes in developing markets such as China and India. But analysts downplayed the DOD plan as a bellwether, noting that the change is motivated primarily by security concerns and not an imminent run on the pool of North American Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which account for 70 percent of the current 4.3 billion possible addresses.
Doubts about the need for an Internet address upgrade persist despite increasing pressure on companies seeking to build online services in regions with larger populations than the United States but with fewer available IP addresses.
There are now about 1 billion original IP addresses left. While that sounds like plenty, many countries are rapidly draining their allotment from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, raising the specter of a shortfall. Those countries include broadband-saturated Korea; India, which has just 2 million IP addresses; China; and European countries, where Web-enabled phones are used by 70 percent of the population.
Web providers around the world have been procrastinating about switching to the new set of addresses. But reluctance is strongest in North America, where the most compelling argument for the shift is least in evidence. Since the two address systems are compatible, networking experts said, there are no other major issues driving adoption outside of address depletion.
Given the enormity of the overhaul, panic is the best and perhaps only effective salesperson. To change to a new pool of IP addresses requires an industry overhaul even greater than that IT professionals went through to keep Y2K just a scare at the dawn of 2000. Shifting to a new pool of dramatically different addresses means making changes to every Internet-connected device, router and switch on the network.
"If you don't have to do anything, most of these people won't do it," said Cody Christman, product engineering director at Japan phone giant NTT, whose DoCoMo wireless subsidiary is one of the few major carriers that has made the leap.
Two googols
Internet Protocol version 6 is its formal na
the arrangement and composing is the thought/feeling. Or at least the thought, anyway. I don't believe that someone could have a perfect arrangement without any thought whatsoever. The feeling is important, though. Unless you're going for cold and dead, the music you make will have some emotion showing. Of course, if you go for emotionless, that's almost an emotion too.
The comment was a joke. It seems that at least three moderators got that while calling it "funny". I was just playing on the words of the AC, while also joking on the fact that most American "patriots" are anti-foreigner bastards.
No, it's like piercings. When you gauge out a piercing, you widen it. Perhaps he meant to say that his eyes would widen at the site of a pants-less CmdrTaco?
This is moderated "funny", but it's less funny, and probably more true. Someone might be tempted to bet a lot if they had "insider information", and then the government would track them down to see what they know, and why they know it. Some might be false leads, but if the King of Jordan is assassinated 2 days after CmdrTaco bets $10,000 on it, I'd definitely question CmdrTaco if I were a fed.
Tell that to all of the lesbians in the world. seriously. What a narrow-minded view of sex. Why not just make it stricter and say that anal sex isn't sex either?
The Earth still will not have travelled to another star. Thus, a complete lack of interstellar travel. It does do intrastellar travel, but so do our spaceships.
as a web designer, you should maybe make your files a bit smaller? It'd take less time to upload, regardless of connection, and your site would be more user-friendly, no?
being fully vertically integrated is not monopolistic behavior. And besides, they buy PPCs from Motorola, so I don't see why that'd be different from buying from AMD (if they buy from Intel, I'd be annoyed).
as I see it, the services that edit the movies for those that buy them, those services are ok. Those that are renting edited versions are not ok. It's the difference between cutting pages out of your own book, and renting a cut-up book. Even if the consumers know that it's edited, the rental place was not given license to rent anything but what the studio sold them, so it's wrong.
What's really wrong is that these people can't just get over sex and violence and profanity. Sometimes these are actually crucial to the plot. If they're not, then why are you watching a crappy movie with gratuitous non-plot-driven sex? isn't that called porn?
at my school (Union College), we have ID Cards with embedded microchips for door access, and they break easily. just sharply banging the card against something will bust it. I've gone through about 4 of them, and it's always because of that chip, never the mag strip. Anything can be broken.
it'd make sense if you had a concept of English. The developer builds his world on a "daily basis", instead of all at once, like other AI projects. Also, go back to 2nd grade, where we learned that "it's" means "it is"
well, if the computers are indistinguishable from humans, and they have personalities and all, then they may well deserve rights. We have significant privileges over animals because of the concept of ego. What makes a human? Are clones/replicants not human?
Are you kidding me? almost everyday, I was on the edge of my seat, wondering "what will happen next?!?"
It's tough to do a daily that keeps you as interested as CRFH!!! does. And not that anyone really cares, but I read 60+ online comics regularly (whenever they're updated).
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Sigh...people don't seem to get tongue-in-cheek humor. I wasn't claiming that we're #1, I was poking fun at "All-Americans", who would claim we're #1.
the USA is good, but there are a lot of things wrong. Don't confuse my joke for my opinion.
You know, that could be part of it. They say that people can memorize about 7 random digits, plus or minus 2. An IPv4 address is already 12 digits, and that's hard enough for a human to memorize, but IPv6 is 18 digits! As it is, phone numbers are only 10 digits in the USA.
I'm not saying that IPv6 is a bad idea, but that might explain people's reluctance to adopt it until the need forces the change.
As much of the world nears an Internet address crunch, North America stands as an island apart, threatening to fragment plans for the biggest overhaul of the Web in decades.
Learn more about Net addresses
Global momentum is growing for a new address system, known as IPv6, which promises to vastly expand the pool of unique numbers available for connecting PCs and other devices to the Net. The standard is widely seen as a necessary successor to the current IPv4 system, which some fear could run short of addresses in Asia and Europe within the next few years.
But few analysts expect the problem to affect North America and influential U.S. networks any time soon, thanks to unique conditions that will likely guarantee the region a steady supply of IPv4 addresses for years to come. Since fear of an address shortage is the single biggest argument in favor of a switch, the United States could stay on the sidelines as the rest of the world wrestles with the upgrade over the coming years, networking experts said.
The United States may not see a shortfall because it was granted an enormous number of addresses in the original worldwide allotment.
"Asia hits a problem in two or three years time," said Ovum analyst Iain Stevenson. "You won't see similar problems in other regions for four or five years. And in North America you won't see a problem at all."
The prospects of a costly Internet address overhaul in the United States is in the spotlight following an endorsement of IPv6 last month from the Defense Department. The $30 billion-a-year agency plans to move all its networks to the new Net address standard by 2008, fueling speculation that the switch--already under way in Japan and other parts of the world--may at last be at hand in the United States.
The Defense Department's endorsement could hasten the availability of IPv6 equipment around the world, helping ease expected address squeezes in developing markets such as China and India. But analysts downplayed the DOD plan as a bellwether, noting that the change is motivated primarily by security concerns and not an imminent run on the pool of North American Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, which account for 70 percent of the current 4.3 billion possible addresses.
Doubts about the need for an Internet address upgrade persist despite increasing pressure on companies seeking to build online services in regions with larger populations than the United States but with fewer available IP addresses.
There are now about 1 billion original IP addresses left. While that sounds like plenty, many countries are rapidly draining their allotment from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, raising the specter of a shortfall. Those countries include broadband-saturated Korea; India, which has just 2 million IP addresses; China; and European countries, where Web-enabled phones are used by 70 percent of the population.
Web providers around the world have been procrastinating about switching to the new set of addresses. But reluctance is strongest in North America, where the most compelling argument for the shift is least in evidence. Since the two address systems are compatible, networking experts said, there are no other major issues driving adoption outside of address depletion.
Given the enormity of the overhaul, panic is the best and perhaps only effective salesperson. To change to a new pool of IP addresses requires an industry overhaul even greater than that IT professionals went through to keep Y2K just a scare at the dawn of 2000. Shifting to a new pool of dramatically different addresses means making changes to every Internet-connected device, router and switch on the network.
"If you don't have to do anything, most of these people won't do it," said Cody Christman, product engineering director at Japan phone giant NTT, whose DoCoMo wireless subsidiary is one of the few major carriers that has made the leap.
Two googols
Internet Protocol version 6 is its formal na
Hilary Rosen is 2191.78 years old, and will sue everyone personally.
the arrangement and composing is the thought/feeling. Or at least the thought, anyway. I don't believe that someone could have a perfect arrangement without any thought whatsoever. The feeling is important, though. Unless you're going for cold and dead, the music you make will have some emotion showing. Of course, if you go for emotionless, that's almost an emotion too.
The comment was a joke. It seems that at least three moderators got that while calling it "funny". I was just playing on the words of the AC, while also joking on the fact that most American "patriots" are anti-foreigner bastards.
No, it's like piercings. When you gauge out a piercing, you widen it. Perhaps he meant to say that his eyes would widen at the site of a pants-less CmdrTaco?
Maybe him coming to your office without pants might cause you to start wearing a tie to work instead?
I always thought they seemed kind of like nooses, now I guess I know I wasn't that far off.
Where should we put our All-American Bashing-statements? You know, the ones that insult all other countries because we're #1?
This is moderated "funny", but it's less funny, and probably more true. Someone might be tempted to bet a lot if they had "insider information", and then the government would track them down to see what they know, and why they know it. Some might be false leads, but if the King of Jordan is assassinated 2 days after CmdrTaco bets $10,000 on it, I'd definitely question CmdrTaco if I were a fed.
She was a meatpacker. "Little Cindy" was just a nickname, kinda like "Tiny". She used to be one of the strongest workers on the floor.
Tell that to all of the lesbians in the world. seriously. What a narrow-minded view of sex. Why not just make it stricter and say that anal sex isn't sex either?
The Earth still will not have travelled to another star. Thus, a complete lack of interstellar travel. It does do intrastellar travel, but so do our spaceships.
as a web designer, you should maybe make your files a bit smaller? It'd take less time to upload, regardless of connection, and your site would be more user-friendly, no?
Motorola makes the G3 and G4, no?
you, sir, have stolen my sig.
No, it's Worcester, MA. Go look it up.
being fully vertically integrated is not monopolistic behavior. And besides, they buy PPCs from Motorola, so I don't see why that'd be different from buying from AMD (if they buy from Intel, I'd be annoyed).
as I see it, the services that edit the movies for those that buy them, those services are ok. Those that are renting edited versions are not ok. It's the difference between cutting pages out of your own book, and renting a cut-up book. Even if the consumers know that it's edited, the rental place was not given license to rent anything but what the studio sold them, so it's wrong.
What's really wrong is that these people can't just get over sex and violence and profanity. Sometimes these are actually crucial to the plot. If they're not, then why are you watching a crappy movie with gratuitous non-plot-driven sex? isn't that called porn?
Two more words:
That's three words.
at my school (Union College), we have ID Cards with embedded microchips for door access, and they break easily. just sharply banging the card against something will bust it. I've gone through about 4 of them, and it's always because of that chip, never the mag strip. Anything can be broken.
Portia is a name originating from Latin, and Mercedes was a name also before the car company. I do hope you were kidding.
it'd make sense if you had a concept of English. The developer builds his world on a "daily basis", instead of all at once, like other AI projects. Also, go back to 2nd grade, where we learned that "it's" means "it is"
well, if the computers are indistinguishable from humans, and they have personalities and all, then they may well deserve rights. We have significant privileges over animals because of the concept of ego. What makes a human? Are clones/replicants not human?
"I want more life"
Are you kidding me? almost everyday, I was on the edge of my seat, wondering "what will happen next?!?"
It's tough to do a daily that keeps you as interested as CRFH!!! does. And not that anyone really cares, but I read 60+ online comics regularly (whenever they're updated).