You are an idiot. The cable itself is far cheaper than the act of laying thousands of miles of it in the
bottom of the ocean.
Wrong! You see, those are not simple cables, not even just a bunch of expensive monomode fibers. Even the best fiber doesn't transmit a signal over several thousand kilometers. You need signal enhancers at regular intervals (like, every 50km or so), and those cost something on the order of a million bucks. So please don't call other people idiots when you have little clue yourself...
IMO the question of/usr vs/usr/local is very minor (me, I see/usr/local as "the subtree for stuff I install manually" vs/usr as "where packages are installed") while I see the inability of source installs to uninstall and handle dependencies as an extreme disadvantage and hence, very imperfect.
I'm more than capable of trying and evaluating both Linux and W2K for myself. The
results are not flattering for Linux.
I.e. you value your personal bias more than what other people got through objective tests. Great. You know, this is beginning to sound like a reasonably good attempt at FUD by a Microserf.
Claiming that Linux is not stable is downright ridiculous and goes against tons of evidence, e.g. This one. Personally, In over 2 years of using Linux, I've had exactly one crash that didn't result from me knowlingly doing very dangerous things.
Um, if Linux works for him and he's happy with it, where do you see a problem? Isn't that what's often touted as the most sensible advice to Windows users in regard to Linux? "if Windows works for you, why switch?"
The assertion was "Linux doesn't work". He's disproven the assertion by providing a counterexample.
Oh and by the way, get it the real world. Its metres, kilometres,... [ Reply to This | Parent ]
I know. I'm German, and I find the Americans' persistence in using the
old system irritating and amusing. But the guy I was replying to used square feet, and I didn't want
to make things difficult for all the poor unit-impaired US guys here...
I wonder who came up with the "several thousand IP addresses per sq. foot/meter of Earth surface" bullshit (heard it in other places, too). It's much more than that. Or is my math wrong:
Not directly, but definitely indirectly. Same with the US dollar. Used to be attached to the gold price, but that changed quite a while ago (60ies? Someone help me!)
For those that need remote displays, LET THEM USE VNC. Let the rest of us move forward. I despise
configuring X to do anything reasonable, and if it doesn't work at all, it's saner to simply break out the
installation CD and try the install again than it is to try putting in monitor/video configuration by hand.
Doesn't compute. What the heck are you talking about?? What weird-assed things are you trying to do that configuring X is such a problem for you? I do that once for every system I install and happily run it from then one without any problems, and usually it doesn't take longer than 10 minutes. Installation CD, WTF? And the clinet-server model I have found *extremely* useful on many occasions, even though I don't do any real system administrations. In a serious networked environment, I can't fathom *not* having that ability. True, it is apparently a pain in the ass to program directly, but hardly anyone really has to do that nowadays.
Yes, they should. But they aren't. Judges are human, and Humans are hardly ever really objective. This is a reality, and IMO it's a very good thing that judical systems don't deny such realities.
I don't think it's his authority that makes this work, it's the fact that the majority of people in the judical system will back him on it because they don't like the idea of a corporation using the system (and them) as a tool to hamper competition.
I think a main point here is not making crimes "more illegal" (though I agree that that's a tendency and that it's stupid), but making it possible to prosecute at all. Like the thing with providerst having to join certain data. If that's not required by law, then an ISP could simply svae money by not storing any information, making it very difficult to prosecute criminals using that ISP, and they'd have the additional benefit of being attractive to customers for whom that is desirable.
Nonsense. Speed causes no deformation whatsoever. Acceleration does, and she will feel no more than the normal gravity-induced acceleration that we all feel.
From what would she black out. Fighter pilots have it happen because of the extremely high accelerations they experience, but she won't feel any more accelerations than you do standing on the ground. Less, actually.
Yeah, IIRC the shuttle does its re-entry at close to Mach 30. And the atmosphere has no clear-cut border, it's a gradual thing. In fact, 31 miles up, you actually do have a bit of atmosphere. So the increasingly dense atmosphere should slow her down gradually.
This is the big issue, I think. With the extremely high bandwidths optical fibre can offer, this is gonna be a lot more; you'd need insanely strong backbone connections when people start to do things like downloading entire pirated movies or Linux distros habitually.
Damn, was being too quick there. If you mean the production capacities, I suppose they will just raise prices and build new factories. Could turn out like the current SDRAM market, you're right.
Um, yes. Glass is literally dirt-cheap. Not so the special kind needed for high-bandwidth optical connections, of course. But that's due to the manufacturing process, not the material.
Move back there in maybe 5 years, when the service is cheap enough to be affordable to normal people and you have the backbone bandwidth necessary to saturate those connections.
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Wrong! You see, those are not simple cables, not even just a bunch of expensive monomode fibers. Even the best fiber doesn't transmit a signal over several thousand kilometers. You need signal enhancers at regular intervals (like, every 50km or so), and those cost something on the order of a million bucks. So please don't call other people idiots when you have little clue yourself...
IMO the question of /usr vs /usr/local is very minor (me, I see /usr/local as "the subtree for stuff I install manually" vs /usr as "where packages are installed") while I see the inability of source installs to uninstall and handle dependencies as an extreme disadvantage and hence, very imperfect.
I.e. you value your personal bias more than what other people got through objective tests. Great. You know, this is beginning to sound like a reasonably good attempt at FUD by a Microserf.
Claiming that Linux is not stable is downright ridiculous and goes against tons of evidence, e.g. This one. Personally, In over 2 years of using Linux, I've had exactly one crash that didn't result from me knowlingly doing very dangerous things.
The assertion was "Linux doesn't work". He's disproven the assertion by providing a counterexample.
I know. I'm German, and I find the Americans' persistence in using the old system irritating and amusing. But the guy I was replying to used square feet, and I didn't want to make things difficult for all the poor unit-impaired US guys here...
IPv6-throughIPv4 tunneling, as described in RFC 1933.
(2^128) / (20000000^2 * 4 * 3.1415) = 67699022545149304365624
(2^128 = no. of possible addresses in IPv6, 20000000 = appr. radius of Earth in feet, 4*pi*r^2 = surface area of a sphere of radius r)
Not directly, but definitely indirectly. Same with the US dollar. Used to be attached to the gold price, but that changed quite a while ago (60ies? Someone help me!)
Doesn't compute. What the heck are you talking about?? What weird-assed things are you trying to do that configuring X is such a problem for you? I do that once for every system I install and happily run it from then one without any problems, and usually it doesn't take longer than 10 minutes. Installation CD, WTF? And the clinet-server model I have found *extremely* useful on many occasions, even though I don't do any real system administrations. In a serious networked environment, I can't fathom *not* having that ability. True, it is apparently a pain in the ass to program directly, but hardly anyone really has to do that nowadays.
Yes, they should. But they aren't. Judges are human, and Humans are hardly ever really objective. This is a reality, and IMO it's a very good thing that judical systems don't deny such realities.
Huh? The comment is not about the case itself at all, it's just about Rambus' misuse of the legal system.
I don't think it's his authority that makes this work, it's the fact that the majority of people in the judical system will back him on it because they don't like the idea of a corporation using the system (and them) as a tool to hamper competition.
precision != easy to understand
I think a main point here is not making crimes "more illegal" (though I agree that that's a tendency and that it's stupid), but making it possible to prosecute at all. Like the thing with providerst having to join certain data. If that's not required by law, then an ISP could simply svae money by not storing any information, making it very difficult to prosecute criminals using that ISP, and they'd have the additional benefit of being attractive to customers for whom that is desirable.
Oh, right. But then, decelleration is just acceleration with a negative sign :)
My, my. Do we have a case of desparate denial here or what?
Why would she start spinning or tumbling? It goes both ways, you know. No air to control attitude also means no wind to toss you around.
Nonsense. Speed causes no deformation whatsoever. Acceleration does, and she will feel no more than the normal gravity-induced acceleration that we all feel.
From what would she black out. Fighter pilots have it happen because of the extremely high accelerations they experience, but she won't feel any more accelerations than you do standing on the ground. Less, actually.
Yeah, IIRC the shuttle does its re-entry at close to Mach 30. And the atmosphere has no clear-cut border, it's a gradual thing. In fact, 31 miles up, you actually do have a bit of atmosphere. So the increasingly dense atmosphere should slow her down gradually.
This is the big issue, I think. With the extremely high bandwidths optical fibre can offer, this is gonna be a lot more; you'd need insanely strong backbone connections when people start to do things like downloading entire pirated movies or Linux distros habitually.
Damn, was being too quick there. If you mean the production capacities, I suppose they will just raise prices and build new factories. Could turn out like the current SDRAM market, you're right.
Um, yes. Glass is literally dirt-cheap. Not so the special kind needed for high-bandwidth optical connections, of course. But that's due to the manufacturing process, not the material.
Move back there in maybe 5 years, when the service is cheap enough to be affordable to normal people and you have the backbone bandwidth necessary to saturate those connections.
Um, what the kids will be asking for can be very easily manipulated with enough advertising dollars, and who else, if not Microsoft, has those?