No, for IPv6 a/29 would have a lot more than 8 addresses (IPv6 is 128 bits, not 32. In general ISPs will get a/32 that they can split up into/48 or/64 chunks for their customers).
But yes, for IPv4 there are fewer than 13 addresses.
If you could somehow get an IPv6/29 you'd have a lot more than 13 usable addresses. I have a/48 that'll last me until every cell in my body decides to connect to the net...
While I do run my own server (and I've done so for many years) I am currently migrating away from this solution (even though I have a 100/100 Mbps connection).
Why? You're in charge of everything. Just this week the server PSU decided to suddenly fail at four in the morning. Luckily I had another PSU that I wasn't using. But, I still had to swap the hardware out. Backups? I have to deal with those as well. Connection goes down? I have to call the ISP. Cat chews on the network cable? I have to deal with that...
So, I'm currently migrating my external services (mail and www) to Linode. It doesn't matter if my file server is down for a few hours or I can't use my local DNS cache because something got fried but it sucks if mail goes down or my websites are unreachable because something broke and I can't fix it.
I just don't get why this is Apple's fault. There are plenty of companies that outsource to Foxconn, not to mention that Foxconn also manufactures their own hardware. Yet every time something bad happens that involves Foxconn people point the finger at Apple. Even if it's at a facility that manufactures Apple products there's still the issue of the plant being Foxconn-run, there's no Apple logo on the door.
Also, plenty of people? Compared to Bin Ladin, Ghaddafi and Kim Jong-Il? Really?
Or maybe you really think Jobs asked Foxconn to murder thousands of their workers...
Like I said, sounds like a more refined version. The only downside I can see is cops assuming that items with stickers on them are always stolen, but at least you'd get them back eventually.
Sounds like a more refined version of what the town I grew up in did to all their expensive tech equipment, they basically melted "PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF ----" into everything (if possible, otherwise they would use hard-to-remove paint).
Sounds like a great way to quickly identify stolen equipment, right? The only problem was that it was not unusual for say, high schools to give away old computers and electronics equipment to students that were taking extra electronics or computer classes. Or just generally when stuff got decommissioned it might end up given away to someone. I still think I have a multimeter somewhere that has that branding on the back, I got it legitimately from a big box of "broken" multimeters (my HS analog electronics teacher hinted that a few of the multimeters probably weren't broken so I checked a bunch until I found one that worked perfectly).
And zero pixels for the gaming sessions of the one to three other people in your living room who can't afford a gaming PC of their own. Perhaps they're still in school, not yet old enough to get a real job, and a neighbor family's kid has already signed lawn care contracts with most of the neighborhood. But then again, perhaps my viewpoint is skewed because I spent a couple years babysitting my aunt's children.
So your argument is that those of us who can afford a computer should still use a console because all gaming should be restricted to the lowest common denominator?
At least in my family, recommending that visitors bring their own controller has been considered a lot more reasonable than asking them to disassemble the family's only gaming PC, take it out of the house, and buy a copy of the same game that I'm hosting.
Most people don't have controllers for every console out there, it's a lot more common for the host to have a bunch of controllers ranging from "Crappy worn-out one that came with the console" to "The brand new one he bought last week".
Well, for one I'd rather have all my 3 686 000* pixels for my gaming session, my own comfy chair (instead of having to squeeze into a couch with half a dozen others), a little free space of my own, not have to fight over the least broken controller...
* 27" IPS monitor @ 2560x1440 and for networked games I routinely play against 20+ other players, when playing even four players on a 1080p screen you're looking at a grand total of 518 400 pixels per player (not counting any shared HUD elements), or 960x540 (most likely on a 50" or smaller screen meaning you're hardly getting a large screen either, not to mention the possibility of other peeking).
A CRT monitor is not a TFT monitor. At 60 Hz anyone with healthy eyes should be able to notice the annoying flicker. The purpose of higher refresh rates with CRT monitors wasn't "smoother motion" on-screen, it was to minimize eye strain.
You've clearly never seen a proper cheap CRT. Yes, compared to bottom-of-the-barrel TN TFTs they would still have been better when new but with ten years and some age-induced blurring on them even a cheap TN panel will be easier on the eyes.
Of course, I've been using IPS monitors for years (and CRTs are a pain, you need a vertical refresh rate of at least 75 Hz for them to be usable and even then there are all sorts of other issues which are not cancelled out by "It's got blacker blacks than a TFT!!11one").
Sadly there's a lot of truth to this. In my experience the difference between most "good" and "bad" networks is whether the WTFs are vendor-blessed hacks or in-house hacks.
Of course, there are always those places where this is not the case but I've seen enough IT environments to believe that for a majority of companies this is sadly the state of things. If maintenance in the average factory was handled the same way IT is handled at the average company most machines would consist of approximately 30-50% duct tape, newspaper, string and glue...
Bulb costs are exaggerated IMO, sure you have to buy a new bulb occasionally but most modern 1080p projectors will only need a bulb replacement every 3000-4000 hours. So if you use your projector for six hours per day a single bulb should still last you about a year and a half.
This is of course assuming you don't abuse the bulb by turning your projector on and off over and over again (much like a plain old HPS bulb they don't like that very much).
I don't know about 3D projectors but I'm using a regular 1080p projector on a 90" screen. No TV receiver, I get all my shows through downloads/streaming and I'm a lot happier with this than I ever was when I had a TV. No commercials, great image quality and when I catch myself coding with the 90" screen as a monitor I get that lovely "wow, I'm living in the future" feeling...
How is this the best solution? Because you offer no explanation other than "Best solution..." in the title. As for the "Anyone who thinks they really need [...]" bit I could point out that you also don't need broadband, telephones (definitely not cellphones), cars, airplanes, electric/gas stoves and many many other things so don't try going that route.
I don't consider instant gratification a right but I also don't consider corporations deliberately withholding their products from the market to maximize profit to be just or a right either. I have no doubts that they would make more money by allowing people to "buy" episodes of TV shows the moment they've aired in the US instead of sticking to their old business model of signing time-limited exclusive deals with local TV companies (which in turn care more about fitting shows into their own schedule than anything else) followed by staggered releases of their product in different formats (starting with the lowest-quality format and successively moving to higher-quality formats).
And as I said, if I could pay for their products I would. But I'm not going to wait for months for the "privilege" of paying for something which they could easily release at the same time here as they do in the US.
I love this - when was the golden age of television that didn't pander to the lowest common denominator, didn't thrust into your eyesockets with advertisements, had shows of culture and integrity that challenged and invigorated its audiences? When was that?
Well, where I'm from the advertising laws have definitely gotten more relaxed in the last couple of decades (how many minutes are allowed for a specified length of programming as well as the number of commercial breaks allowed during that same length of programming and the allowed length of a commercial break). Not to mention the increase in product placements, sure there have always been product placements but not to the degree we're seeing now.
TV today is as good or better than it ever has been. There are quality shows with believable, complex characterization and multi-season arcs that don't always center upon the medical or legal system. Sure, they don't build radios out of cocoanuts or learn valuable life lessons on a Princess Cruise, but you can't have it all.
I actually think a lot of the current TV shows are very good (if you can just find them and manage to ignore the commercials), the problem is TV as a medium has turned more and more into garbage (at least from my POV as a Swede).
Of course, I don't even have a TV these days, I just download the shows I want to watch. This has also resulted in me thinking of US "30 minute" and "one hour" shows as being "20 minute" (20-22 minutes to be more precise) and "40 minute" shows.
BTW, I'd love to download the shows I watch legally (without commercials in exchange for money) but I can't. Really. My option if I want them legally is either to wait until they air here in Sweden so I can watch them on the TV I don't have or I can wait until the season ends in the US plus another couple of months at which point they may become available on DVD (add another two months for the Bluray version, not that I have a Bluray player). And since a lot of shows end up airing several months after they air in the US (which these days is due to local TV networks caring more about how they want to schedule shows than when episode become available) buying the DVD will quite often allow you to still watch the last few episodes of the season before they air in Sweden...
Ok, so maybe AppleScript and Quartz Composer aren't 100% exactly what Hypercard was, but they're still there, and there's Xcode if you want to do "real" development. Not to mention that you've got all the usual *nix tools available if you're that kind of power user.
To pretend that Apple killed Hypercard because it interfered with the Mac "walled garden" is just a conspiracy theory. If that was the reason it was killed and remained dead then Mac OS X wouldn't ship with python and Bash. Apple wouldn't have been giving Xcode away (and recently selling it as a download for $5). Nor would they have provided Quartz Composer and AppleScript.
You're comparing Windows 95 to Linux distros of the same era?
Windows 95 was infamous for crashing at least daily, I knew plenty of fairly knowledgeable people who took pride in being able to keep it running for a week. While it was, in theory, capable of multitasking the truth was that very few users would gamble with multitasking under Win9x (except for things like running an IRC client, an MP3 player and a web browser at the same time). Why? Because it crashed fast and hard for seemingly no reason (a single program crashing often brought the whole system down in various fun ways, the common pattern being that a program crashed and you scrambled to save everything you were using in other programs, with alternate filenames of course, just in case the crashing program had corrupted something, within a minute or two the system would bluescreen as you did something like click the Start menu button).
By comparison Linux at the time was rock solid. Yes, both Windows and Linux are more stable than the Linux distros of that time but even Red Hat 4.x and Slackware 3.x were more stable than the average desktop machine is these days.
You should probably look at the individual percentages for each country, there are definitely countries where fossil fuels (gas, oil and coal) aren't used for anywhere near 50-80% of the energy production. For example, here in Sweden only about 3.4% of the electricity produced is produced using fossil fuels (admittedly we tend to import electricity from other countries at time and some of that may very well be from fossil fuels but we do have the capacity to not have to do so, we're just not using that capacity for various reasons).
If you're on a busy street then guess what, you're going to have trouble with all the non-electric cars as well (which currently greatly outnumber the electric cars).
I was talking about the situations where it tends to actually be a problem, when there isn't a lot of traffic.
How exactly does one get a patent on location-based reminders? I know I'm not the only one who has considered that idea and the actual implementation should be fairly straightforward (when you consider that APIs and hardware required for it all exist, hell even if you go the "IN THE CLOUD" route it would be relatively easy to figure out (Track position constantly, periodic "pings" to "The Cloud" that pass along your approximate coordinates, in return you get a JSON/XML reply with any nearby reminder positions which are cached locally, if/when you are close enough to a reminder position your device reminds you, new reminders are automagically submitted to the same "Cloud server", for local storage you just skip "The Cloud" and store everything locally)).
You can hear electric cars just fine if you actually pay attention to your surroundings (doubly so if we get rid of the majority of loud combustion engine-powered cars). I definitely hear when an electric car approaches if I'm not listening to music, at it sounds nothing like a bicycle btw (just in case someone feels the need to claim otherwise).
Just because everyone is used to cars being loud as hell doesn't mean it's a good thing.
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No, for IPv6 a /29 would have a lot more than 8 addresses (IPv6 is 128 bits, not 32. In general ISPs will get a /32 that they can split up into /48 or /64 chunks for their customers).
But yes, for IPv4 there are fewer than 13 addresses.
If you could somehow get an IPv6 /29 you'd have a lot more than 13 usable addresses. I have a /48 that'll last me until every cell in my body decides to connect to the net...
While I do run my own server (and I've done so for many years) I am currently migrating away from this solution (even though I have a 100/100 Mbps connection).
Why? You're in charge of everything. Just this week the server PSU decided to suddenly fail at four in the morning. Luckily I had another PSU that I wasn't using. But, I still had to swap the hardware out. Backups? I have to deal with those as well. Connection goes down? I have to call the ISP. Cat chews on the network cable? I have to deal with that...
So, I'm currently migrating my external services (mail and www) to Linode. It doesn't matter if my file server is down for a few hours or I can't use my local DNS cache because something got fried but it sucks if mail goes down or my websites are unreachable because something broke and I can't fix it.
I just don't get why this is Apple's fault. There are plenty of companies that outsource to Foxconn, not to mention that Foxconn also manufactures their own hardware. Yet every time something bad happens that involves Foxconn people point the finger at Apple. Even if it's at a facility that manufactures Apple products there's still the issue of the plant being Foxconn-run, there's no Apple logo on the door.
Also, plenty of people? Compared to Bin Ladin, Ghaddafi and Kim Jong-Il? Really?
Or maybe you really think Jobs asked Foxconn to murder thousands of their workers...
Like I said, sounds like a more refined version. The only downside I can see is cops assuming that items with stickers on them are always stolen, but at least you'd get them back eventually.
Sounds like a more refined version of what the town I grew up in did to all their expensive tech equipment, they basically melted "PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF ----" into everything (if possible, otherwise they would use hard-to-remove paint).
Sounds like a great way to quickly identify stolen equipment, right? The only problem was that it was not unusual for say, high schools to give away old computers and electronics equipment to students that were taking extra electronics or computer classes. Or just generally when stuff got decommissioned it might end up given away to someone. I still think I have a multimeter somewhere that has that branding on the back, I got it legitimately from a big box of "broken" multimeters (my HS analog electronics teacher hinted that a few of the multimeters probably weren't broken so I checked a bunch until I found one that worked perfectly).
And zero pixels for the gaming sessions of the one to three other people in your living room who can't afford a gaming PC of their own. Perhaps they're still in school, not yet old enough to get a real job, and a neighbor family's kid has already signed lawn care contracts with most of the neighborhood. But then again, perhaps my viewpoint is skewed because I spent a couple years babysitting my aunt's children.
So your argument is that those of us who can afford a computer should still use a console because all gaming should be restricted to the lowest common denominator?
At least in my family, recommending that visitors bring their own controller has been considered a lot more reasonable than asking them to disassemble the family's only gaming PC, take it out of the house, and buy a copy of the same game that I'm hosting.
Most people don't have controllers for every console out there, it's a lot more common for the host to have a bunch of controllers ranging from "Crappy worn-out one that came with the console" to "The brand new one he bought last week".
You do realize his point was that it handed out an unreachable gateway, right?
Well, for one I'd rather have all my 3 686 000* pixels for my gaming session, my own comfy chair (instead of having to squeeze into a couch with half a dozen others), a little free space of my own, not have to fight over the least broken controller...
* 27" IPS monitor @ 2560x1440 and for networked games I routinely play against 20+ other players, when playing even four players on a 1080p screen you're looking at a grand total of 518 400 pixels per player (not counting any shared HUD elements), or 960x540 (most likely on a 50" or smaller screen meaning you're hardly getting a large screen either, not to mention the possibility of other peeking).
A CRT monitor is not a TFT monitor. At 60 Hz anyone with healthy eyes should be able to notice the annoying flicker. The purpose of higher refresh rates with CRT monitors wasn't "smoother motion" on-screen, it was to minimize eye strain.
You've clearly never seen a proper cheap CRT. Yes, compared to bottom-of-the-barrel TN TFTs they would still have been better when new but with ten years and some age-induced blurring on them even a cheap TN panel will be easier on the eyes.
Of course, I've been using IPS monitors for years (and CRTs are a pain, you need a vertical refresh rate of at least 75 Hz for them to be usable and even then there are all sorts of other issues which are not cancelled out by "It's got blacker blacks than a TFT!!11one").
Sadly there's a lot of truth to this. In my experience the difference between most "good" and "bad" networks is whether the WTFs are vendor-blessed hacks or in-house hacks.
Of course, there are always those places where this is not the case but I've seen enough IT environments to believe that for a majority of companies this is sadly the state of things. If maintenance in the average factory was handled the same way IT is handled at the average company most machines would consist of approximately 30-50% duct tape, newspaper, string and glue...
Bulb costs are exaggerated IMO, sure you have to buy a new bulb occasionally but most modern 1080p projectors will only need a bulb replacement every 3000-4000 hours. So if you use your projector for six hours per day a single bulb should still last you about a year and a half.
This is of course assuming you don't abuse the bulb by turning your projector on and off over and over again (much like a plain old HPS bulb they don't like that very much).
I don't know about 3D projectors but I'm using a regular 1080p projector on a 90" screen. No TV receiver, I get all my shows through downloads/streaming and I'm a lot happier with this than I ever was when I had a TV. No commercials, great image quality and when I catch myself coding with the 90" screen as a monitor I get that lovely "wow, I'm living in the future" feeling...
First: You're not the parent, you're an AC so you're most likely trying to drag me into an annoying trollish argument...
Second: You don't see how only providing half the service they used to provide might be seen as a reason to choose another company? Really?
How is this the best solution? Because you offer no explanation other than "Best solution..." in the title. As for the "Anyone who thinks they really need [...]" bit I could point out that you also don't need broadband, telephones (definitely not cellphones), cars, airplanes, electric/gas stoves and many many other things so don't try going that route.
Please explain why this is the best solution.
I don't consider instant gratification a right but I also don't consider corporations deliberately withholding their products from the market to maximize profit to be just or a right either. I have no doubts that they would make more money by allowing people to "buy" episodes of TV shows the moment they've aired in the US instead of sticking to their old business model of signing time-limited exclusive deals with local TV companies (which in turn care more about fitting shows into their own schedule than anything else) followed by staggered releases of their product in different formats (starting with the lowest-quality format and successively moving to higher-quality formats).
And as I said, if I could pay for their products I would. But I'm not going to wait for months for the "privilege" of paying for something which they could easily release at the same time here as they do in the US.
I love this - when was the golden age of television that didn't pander to the lowest common denominator, didn't thrust into your eyesockets with advertisements, had shows of culture and integrity that challenged and invigorated its audiences? When was that?
Well, where I'm from the advertising laws have definitely gotten more relaxed in the last couple of decades (how many minutes are allowed for a specified length of programming as well as the number of commercial breaks allowed during that same length of programming and the allowed length of a commercial break). Not to mention the increase in product placements, sure there have always been product placements but not to the degree we're seeing now.
TV today is as good or better than it ever has been. There are quality shows with believable, complex characterization and multi-season arcs that don't always center upon the medical or legal system. Sure, they don't build radios out of cocoanuts or learn valuable life lessons on a Princess Cruise, but you can't have it all.
I actually think a lot of the current TV shows are very good (if you can just find them and manage to ignore the commercials), the problem is TV as a medium has turned more and more into garbage (at least from my POV as a Swede).
Of course, I don't even have a TV these days, I just download the shows I want to watch. This has also resulted in me thinking of US "30 minute" and "one hour" shows as being "20 minute" (20-22 minutes to be more precise) and "40 minute" shows.
BTW, I'd love to download the shows I watch legally (without commercials in exchange for money) but I can't. Really. My option if I want them legally is either to wait until they air here in Sweden so I can watch them on the TV I don't have or I can wait until the season ends in the US plus another couple of months at which point they may become available on DVD (add another two months for the Bluray version, not that I have a Bluray player). And since a lot of shows end up airing several months after they air in the US (which these days is due to local TV networks caring more about how they want to schedule shows than when episode become available) buying the DVD will quite often allow you to still watch the last few episodes of the season before they air in Sweden...
Ok, so maybe AppleScript and Quartz Composer aren't 100% exactly what Hypercard was, but they're still there, and there's Xcode if you want to do "real" development. Not to mention that you've got all the usual *nix tools available if you're that kind of power user.
To pretend that Apple killed Hypercard because it interfered with the Mac "walled garden" is just a conspiracy theory. If that was the reason it was killed and remained dead then Mac OS X wouldn't ship with python and Bash. Apple wouldn't have been giving Xcode away (and recently selling it as a download for $5). Nor would they have provided Quartz Composer and AppleScript.
But yeah sure, walled garden, ooooh, spooky...
You're comparing Windows 95 to Linux distros of the same era?
Windows 95 was infamous for crashing at least daily, I knew plenty of fairly knowledgeable people who took pride in being able to keep it running for a week. While it was, in theory, capable of multitasking the truth was that very few users would gamble with multitasking under Win9x (except for things like running an IRC client, an MP3 player and a web browser at the same time). Why? Because it crashed fast and hard for seemingly no reason (a single program crashing often brought the whole system down in various fun ways, the common pattern being that a program crashed and you scrambled to save everything you were using in other programs, with alternate filenames of course, just in case the crashing program had corrupted something, within a minute or two the system would bluescreen as you did something like click the Start menu button).
By comparison Linux at the time was rock solid. Yes, both Windows and Linux are more stable than the Linux distros of that time but even Red Hat 4.x and Slackware 3.x were more stable than the average desktop machine is these days.
Nice try.
You should probably look at the individual percentages for each country, there are definitely countries where fossil fuels (gas, oil and coal) aren't used for anywhere near 50-80% of the energy production. For example, here in Sweden only about 3.4% of the electricity produced is produced using fossil fuels (admittedly we tend to import electricity from other countries at time and some of that may very well be from fossil fuels but we do have the capacity to not have to do so, we're just not using that capacity for various reasons).
That depends on what country you live in.
If you're on a busy street then guess what, you're going to have trouble with all the non-electric cars as well (which currently greatly outnumber the electric cars).
I was talking about the situations where it tends to actually be a problem, when there isn't a lot of traffic.
How exactly does one get a patent on location-based reminders? I know I'm not the only one who has considered that idea and the actual implementation should be fairly straightforward (when you consider that APIs and hardware required for it all exist, hell even if you go the "IN THE CLOUD" route it would be relatively easy to figure out (Track position constantly, periodic "pings" to "The Cloud" that pass along your approximate coordinates, in return you get a JSON/XML reply with any nearby reminder positions which are cached locally, if/when you are close enough to a reminder position your device reminds you, new reminders are automagically submitted to the same "Cloud server", for local storage you just skip "The Cloud" and store everything locally)).
You can hear electric cars just fine if you actually pay attention to your surroundings (doubly so if we get rid of the majority of loud combustion engine-powered cars). I definitely hear when an electric car approaches if I'm not listening to music, at it sounds nothing like a bicycle btw (just in case someone feels the need to claim otherwise).
Just because everyone is used to cars being loud as hell doesn't mean it's a good thing.