Bullshit- They're charging what the market will bear. They always have, its never (fixed cost) + markup. Thats fine, but they've over stepped this time, and they just lost part of their market, we'll see if its enough to have an impact.
Can you send me: current employer, your residences for the last 10 years, your home and/or cell number, all currently used email addresses (plus password! the FB special), photos of you and friends, vacation schedule, where you like to eat/shop, your sexual preferences and anything else I missed... Thanks!
Small, but growing. There will soon be economic pressure for v4 addresses, and it won't take too many people moving to v6 make it worthwhile to maintain dual stack servers.
First hand experience on this one- if you're already using best practices for web hosting, adding v6 addresses is stupid easy, and requires no re-work to your backend. Why _wouldn't_ you add v6, even to capture (or keep from losing) 1% of your traffic?
Right now the reason is: horribly misconfigured dual stack clients will fail when accessing dual stacked servers. Thats what v6 day is for, with most of the large web sites going dual stack for 24 hours, hopefully most of those issues will be brought to the surface. Once people like google see that lost misconfigured dual stack traffic is equal to incoming v6 traffic, they'll switch to dual stack permanently, and the transition will officially begin.
Of course v6 only won't make sense for years. It won't make sense until 99% of the internet is dual stack or v6 only- how long that takes is an economics problem. Whats important is that servers/hosting is dual stacked during the transition. When you're looking for hosting services native dual stack will soon be a requirement. Its not right now, but it will be very soon. This really isn't very complicated- dual stack your public servers as quickly as possibly (really not that hard), and let internal infrastructure sort itself out over time. If the price for v4 addresses shoots up people using routable v4 addresses that aren't actually reachable will quickly re-ip and sell, and just a wag, but anyone on the ball enough to do that will probably re-ip to v6, not rfc1918 v4.
Is it? Where are the fine upstanding officers not willing to obstruct justice or be an accessory after the fact? You can use the BART shooting as a starting point if you want a clear example of murder- where the office was convicted _despite_ the effort of his fellow cops.
I'm not a huge fan of cybermen either, but I the current rounds of cybermen are supposedly separately evolved. 'Cybermen' is more like a category of self-replicating cyborg, who all happen to have the same mask. I'm not saying that makes sense or is ok, but its different than 'we got them all! except for this one...'
You never said what your problem with 128bit addresses is. Hacking support for 16 more bits into v4 isn't fundamentally different than adding 96. You can't add 16bits without breaking pristine v4 devices, and any such hack would be ugly and messy. If you have to touch/hack/upgrade every single v4 device to support your scheme, how about we just go all the way and upgrade to a totally new address scheme? Its not hard, it just works, and its easier to dual stack (or run straight v6) than you'd imagine.
The slow part is- up until now there has been zero benefit, so there is no reason for ISPs to provide v6 support, and extremely broken dual stacks fail when a query returns both A and AAAA, so content providers are understandably nervous. Its changing though- I think by the end of the year most popular sites will be available in v6. For the larger folks its simple to implement, there are only a few devices on the edge of the network that need v6.
For home use I'm loving v6. Suddenly every device I have is individually addressable from the internet instead of NAT + port forwarding. Even my 3y/o network printer picked up a v6 address, and it just works. I'm dual stacked, so my internet experience hasn't degraded, most v6 aware clients will prefer v6 if a AAAA is offered, but will use v4 otherwise, its seamless.
Sounds like the cop was an asshole- using his official power to win a personal argument. What if the guy wanted to keep arguing? Would the cop get to taser him to prove he was 'right'?
That's only somewhat true. Up until the last version, iOS upgrades were $9.99.
Check your sources- they always been free (as in beer). I have a 1st gen iphone from opening week, I upgraded every step of the way to the last supported version: free. I have a 3gs I've updated to the current version: free.
You might be thinking of iPod touch, but the phones have always been free.
Depends on what you mean by 'successful launch'...
It sustained damage that caused it to break apart (albeit sometime later). I'm not sure I would consider a launch that directly lead to its destruction 'successful'.
As a recent Prime customer I can tell you it goes like this:
I need to buy X. Usual brick and mortar vs online argument, except now I don't have to pay for fast shipping. Even paying 3.99 for overnight shipping you end up way ahead. In about a month I've switched to buying anything of consequence from amazon instead of from a store. I even bought computer equipment from amazon instead of from newegg for similar reasons. Basically my amazon spending increased 10x. Presumably they're not losing money by eating the shipping, so its a win for both of us.
GSLB is the way to go here- its not perfect, and it relies on the client to honor the DNS TTL. Its simple, and should be cheap (we do it all in house, but for a couple sites I'm sure you could purchase the service from someone).
Basically set your DNS TTLs low, and the DNS server returns an IP based on the health of those services.
come off it... Apple only exist now because Microsoft pumped money into them to keep them alive so that:
1) they could continue to claim they weren't a monopoly
and
2) to keep a safety valve open for the arty types who couldn't stand windows to prevent them from running to Linux and picking it up and making it beautiful...
If Microsoft was really playing to win the entire market, they'd have allowed Apple to go belly up
MS got: IE as the default browser on the Mac, and the end to patent lawsuits. Where those worth 150M investment and a 5 year commitment to Office? Monetarily MS certainly ended up way ahead, and in 97 they were so blinded by a desire for browser dominance its not out of the question that was their motivation.
Apple's main win was the public 5 year commitment of MS Office. The investment was not a significant amount of money for Apple. From TFA:
Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said. He added that the company expects to gain a higher percentage of its revenues from software and services in these core markets in the future.
Of course its a PR win for MS, for the next 20 years they get people spouting off misremembered things like 'MS saved Apple'.
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Bullshit- They're charging what the market will bear. They always have, its never (fixed cost) + markup. Thats fine, but they've over stepped this time, and they just lost part of their market, we'll see if its enough to have an impact.
Read your link!? I can't even read the anchor!
We obviously need to separate the driver from the passengers too- conversations with passengers is probably responsible for 60% of the other wrecks.
Presumably your users don't have internet access then?
Can you send me: current employer, your residences for the last 10 years, your home and/or cell number, all currently used email addresses (plus password! the FB special), photos of you and friends, vacation schedule, where you like to eat/shop, your sexual preferences and anything else I missed... Thanks!
Getting your clients sued for 100 times their net worth is very, very, very bad for business.
Tell that to the RIAA...
They get lost driving around...
Small, but growing. There will soon be economic pressure for v4 addresses, and it won't take too many people moving to v6 make it worthwhile to maintain dual stack servers.
First hand experience on this one- if you're already using best practices for web hosting, adding v6 addresses is stupid easy, and requires no re-work to your backend. Why _wouldn't_ you add v6, even to capture (or keep from losing) 1% of your traffic?
Right now the reason is: horribly misconfigured dual stack clients will fail when accessing dual stacked servers. Thats what v6 day is for, with most of the large web sites going dual stack for 24 hours, hopefully most of those issues will be brought to the surface. Once people like google see that lost misconfigured dual stack traffic is equal to incoming v6 traffic, they'll switch to dual stack permanently, and the transition will officially begin.
Thats why this article is misleading...
Of course v6 only won't make sense for years. It won't make sense until 99% of the internet is dual stack or v6 only- how long that takes is an economics problem. Whats important is that servers/hosting is dual stacked during the transition. When you're looking for hosting services native dual stack will soon be a requirement. Its not right now, but it will be very soon. This really isn't very complicated- dual stack your public servers as quickly as possibly (really not that hard), and let internal infrastructure sort itself out over time. If the price for v4 addresses shoots up people using routable v4 addresses that aren't actually reachable will quickly re-ip and sell, and just a wag, but anyone on the ball enough to do that will probably re-ip to v6, not rfc1918 v4.
Sure, that's what we all want. We also want bankers who don't cheat. How exactly do you intend to get only good police? It's impossible.
I agree 100%, but that doesn't mean we should lay down when we see the abuse. Just because its impossible doesn't mean we should give up the goal.
...is certainly a bit much.
Is it? Where are the fine upstanding officers not willing to obstruct justice or be an accessory after the fact? You can use the BART shooting as a starting point if you want a clear example of murder- where the office was convicted _despite_ the effort of his fellow cops.
I'm not a huge fan of cybermen either, but I the current rounds of cybermen are supposedly separately evolved. 'Cybermen' is more like a category of self-replicating cyborg, who all happen to have the same mask. I'm not saying that makes sense or is ok, but its different than 'we got them all! except for this one...'
I can't tell- are you suggesting its wrong to own a jet and use it?
Well said.
You never said what your problem with 128bit addresses is. Hacking support for 16 more bits into v4 isn't fundamentally different than adding 96. You can't add 16bits without breaking pristine v4 devices, and any such hack would be ugly and messy. If you have to touch/hack/upgrade every single v4 device to support your scheme, how about we just go all the way and upgrade to a totally new address scheme? Its not hard, it just works, and its easier to dual stack (or run straight v6) than you'd imagine.
The slow part is- up until now there has been zero benefit, so there is no reason for ISPs to provide v6 support, and extremely broken dual stacks fail when a query returns both A and AAAA, so content providers are understandably nervous. Its changing though- I think by the end of the year most popular sites will be available in v6. For the larger folks its simple to implement, there are only a few devices on the edge of the network that need v6.
For home use I'm loving v6. Suddenly every device I have is individually addressable from the internet instead of NAT + port forwarding. Even my 3y/o network printer picked up a v6 address, and it just works. I'm dual stacked, so my internet experience hasn't degraded, most v6 aware clients will prefer v6 if a AAAA is offered, but will use v4 otherwise, its seamless.
Sounds like the cop was an asshole- using his official power to win a personal argument. What if the guy wanted to keep arguing? Would the cop get to taser him to prove he was 'right'?
That's only somewhat true. Up until the last version, iOS upgrades were $9.99.
Check your sources- they always been free (as in beer). I have a 1st gen iphone from opening week, I upgraded every step of the way to the last supported version: free. I have a 3gs I've updated to the current version: free.
You might be thinking of iPod touch, but the phones have always been free.
Depends on what you mean by 'successful launch'...
It sustained damage that caused it to break apart (albeit sometime later). I'm not sure I would consider a launch that directly lead to its destruction 'successful'.
As a recent Prime customer I can tell you it goes like this:
I need to buy X. Usual brick and mortar vs online argument, except now I don't have to pay for fast shipping. Even paying 3.99 for overnight shipping you end up way ahead. In about a month I've switched to buying anything of consequence from amazon instead of from a store. I even bought computer equipment from amazon instead of from newegg for similar reasons. Basically my amazon spending increased 10x. Presumably they're not losing money by eating the shipping, so its a win for both of us.
Yes- but 90% of your traffic is better than 0%
Depends on your definition of better. Some of us would prefer a simpler lifestyle.
Nothing is stopping you. Now- how about you stop trying to make me live a simpler lifestyle?
GSLB is the way to go here- its not perfect, and it relies on the client to honor the DNS TTL. Its simple, and should be cheap (we do it all in house, but for a couple sites I'm sure you could purchase the service from someone).
Basically set your DNS TTLs low, and the DNS server returns an IP based on the health of those services.
come off it... Apple only exist now because Microsoft pumped money into them to keep them alive so that:
1) they could continue to claim they weren't a monopoly
and
2) to keep a safety valve open for the arty types who couldn't stand windows to prevent them from running to Linux and picking it up and making it beautiful...
If Microsoft was really playing to win the entire market, they'd have allowed Apple to go belly up
History leason: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
MS got: IE as the default browser on the Mac, and the end to patent lawsuits. Where those worth 150M investment and a 5 year commitment to Office? Monetarily MS certainly ended up way ahead, and in 97 they were so blinded by a desire for browser dominance its not out of the question that was their motivation.
Apple's main win was the public 5 year commitment of MS Office. The investment was not a significant amount of money for Apple. From TFA:
Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said. He added that the company expects to gain a higher percentage of its revenues from software and services in these core markets in the future.
Of course its a PR win for MS, for the next 20 years they get people spouting off misremembered things like 'MS saved Apple'.
They got all uppity when we tried to store nuclear waste there- I wouldn't assume they'd take stateside version of Gitmo without protest.
Tall ship?