The trouble with ipv6 is that ipv4 works so well for 90% of the population (in the same manner that 76% of statistics are made up on the spot) that nobody who doesn't really care about this won't put in an effort to make the switch. It looks like going 100% ipv6 is quite a few years off, foo.
To you average user there should be no effort, since it should just work. The problem is that there are still gaping holes that need to be resolved. For example no DHCPv6 client provided standard with MacOS X. Sure you can get wide-dhcpv6 and install it on your computer, but this considered to be in the realm of the experimenters.
We will get to the point where IPv6 is ready, but as the parent says most people aren't ready. You average Joe won't know that anything changed unless things break. Apple, Microsoft and Cisco still don't have IPv6 ready networks and the only people who do are just doing it for fun or out of curiosity.
The residents of Sderot have every right to expect their government to protect them and if the government is refusing to take any preventative action, while over 7,000 rockets have fallen on the town, then suing the government seems a very reasonable action.
This I will have to agree on. If you are attacked you have the right to defend yourself, but the the overall situation is not simply one side attacking another. Despite having agreed to completely pull out from territory which has been designated as Palestinian, there are in fact still Israeli colonies there. Granted this move to expand has been prompted by pressure from the radical right, put this is not likely to ease the situation.
Whether Hamas will ever accept Israel as a nation is also another question, but there is so much tension on both sides that these issues might last a while.
Thank goodness we have Tim Hortons [timhortons.com] here in Canada where a Small is a small, a Medium is a medium, a Large is a large and an Extra-large is, you guessed it, an extra-large.
Ah, but you have never asked for a "regular" coffee. Turns out "regular" has different definitions depending where you are. Sometimes it is a double-double, sometimes its black and so on.
The fast food places do the same thing, without needing a fauxtalian translation to bring about.
That is another place that gets it so wrong. First time I looked at a menu in the states I saw "entrees", and thought to myself that the 1/2 lb steak was a bit much for a starter, though it turns out it was the main course. Speaking French, where the orginal version comes from "entrée" means starter.
Now people will just go to Starbucks for the overpriced foo-foo coffees.
Customer: Could I have small coffee Server: That would be a mezzo, sir Customer: what the f*ck? mezzo is medium, piccolo is small Server: sir mezzo means small Customer: never mind, I'll a medium coffe Server: That would be a grande, sir Customer: Whatever, just give me a medium coffee that is actually a small.
Its a real bummer that these TSA guys end up being no better than night club bouncers, but heck I suppose technology is not their forte, which is kind of ironic given they need to understand recognise what's going through the machine.
Anyhow, my question is if you miss a flight because of these TSA guys, does your airline put you on the next available flight at no extra cost?
Just in case this gets passed, I am going to take advantage of the anonymous coward option a bit more now on Slashdot. I want to feel that I got my fair use's worth. This doesn't mean I am going to post anything insightful or funny, but I have to get my money's worth, though I am not how you get your money's worth of something that is free - oh, well.
Well look on the bright side, if you ever go on holiday outside of the states then you will be free to post anonymously to your hearts content.
If this ever gets passed/. needs to mourn this by making every comment on that day an anonymous one:)
Hmm, that seems to be incompatible with Karma whoring. You do realise this is likely to cause Karma whores to go mad.
There aren't many GOOD pc games coming out lately. So, if the manufacturers drop the ball on hardware... it doesn't REALLY matter, because the software developers aren't doing much better either.
Then again crappy integrated graphics is not going to help much. I wanted to do some non-gaming 3D and I wa lucky to get some of the 3D working on one computer. This was a month old Dell Latitude using an integrated Intel chipset. Before I went the unoffical route the provided Dell driver could barely do OpenGL 1.0, and then with the official driver it could do OpenGL 1.5, but performance sucked big time. This is why if I choose a computer I make sure it has at least an ATI or Nvidia chipset, but unfortunately not everybody understands the importance here.
There is only so much a programmer can do if the hardware just doesn't support what they want to do.
I have spoken to a number of games developers and one advantage for them with consoles, is that they are relatively easy to develop for, since they aren't a moving target which it comes to configuration.
If you are spending a $1000 USD on a computer then it better have the ability to do OpenGL 2.0 well-ish.
.. soon to be cracked, by a great army of brilliant chinese/taiwanese/etc.. engineers, specialized in getting to know how everything works.
That is the irony, the pirates will have worked out how crack the system, while legitimate users will be cursing through their teeth as to why their $200 CPU is not working. Not helping things is that the contact number is on the CD, along with the manual, looking very useless.
I would imagine that you'd have a contract with Apple saying that you won't do that. And if you did, Apple would probably just revoke it. What good is a cert, from a security and accountability perspective, if it is being passed around the internet to random "friends" of yours?
Anything is doable, as long as you do things correctly. You not wanting to have your own certificate revoked is a good control point. You can create a virtual entity that your friends work under, and as long as nothing bad comes from it and you consistly use that entity for labelling your software, I doubt anyone would raise an eyebrow.
Wrong. Apps that are distributed for free are free.
They are free. You just need to pay $99 to be able to sign your application for distribution. Quite honestly $99 is actually cheaper than some places I have seen for a digital signature.
Is this GPL compatible? If I offer a GPL app on this store and provide source, the user can't use that source to modify the app without paying a fee, right? Is this a problem under the GPLv2? v3?
Certificate != DRM. A signature simply says that you certify that you are indeed the creator of the software. On the other hand DRM says you can only use this software after having handed over a limb, or something of the sorts.
With GPLed software you don't have to provide the source as part of the same distribution, but you have to provide a way of getting the source. This source could be on your web site, available by post, or whatever, but it has to be available. In your application add a blurb explaining how to get the source.
As for the $99 fee, technically there is nothing stoping you getting together with a bunch of friends and using the same signature. The only thing is you have better trust each other, since there is such thing as having a certificate revoked. I don't know whether Apple would to this, but this is the general notion. Its all down to a trust system. If you abuse the trust, then you lose it.
I suppose European friends are the way to go, but in general non-USA friends. I am not sure which would be worse for a USA citizen, being discovered that you are subverting state censorship or being discovered by your government that you have been to Cuba.
On a similar note, there has been some indication that Apple will not put Java onto the iPhone. Does anyone know whether there is a J2ME reference implementation that could be adapted by a willing team of developers? Since most basic phones are capable of running Java, you can't use the excuse of lack of memory or CPU in this case.
the iPhone isn't powerful enough to run flash properly. Too bad.
A Pentium 4 with 2GB of memories isn't either in certain cases. There are certain sites that are so chock full of flash, and I am not even talking about adult sites either, that they can bring the computer to a crawl. You wonder what is going on and then experience directs you to another tab in your browser. Closing that tab, brings your computer back to normal. The iPhone is more limited in its resources so is going to suffer faster.
Half the problem with Flash is that they are mostly developed by people with more sense about good design (and even that is sometimes questionable), than good programming.
Having said all this does anyone know how memory and CPU compares in an iPhone with regards to a Wii, which does support Flash in Opera.
BTW I believe the iPhone does support SVG, so if you want vector graphics this is an option.
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The trouble with ipv6 is that ipv4 works so well for 90% of the population (in the same manner that 76% of statistics are made up on the spot) that nobody who doesn't really care about this won't put in an effort to make the switch. It looks like going 100% ipv6 is quite a few years off, foo.
To you average user there should be no effort, since it should just work. The problem is that there are still gaping holes that need to be resolved. For example no DHCPv6 client provided standard with MacOS X. Sure you can get wide-dhcpv6 and install it on your computer, but this considered to be in the realm of the experimenters.
We will get to the point where IPv6 is ready, but as the parent says most people aren't ready. You average Joe won't know that anything changed unless things break. Apple, Microsoft and Cisco still don't have IPv6 ready networks and the only people who do are just doing it for fun or out of curiosity.
I did, the google logo does a little dance, other than that it just looks like google.
;)
Just remember kame.net got there first with their turtle
Sixxs.net lists some IPv6 web sites in its Wiki:
http://www.sixxs.net/wiki/Category:IPv6-specific_content
and there is also some other 'Cool IPv6 stuff' listed on the Sixxs web site:
http://www.sixxs.net/misc/coolstuff/
Thanks once again, Slashdot, for making it possible for me to project the impression that I'm doing my job. ^_^
/. , at least if he is of the pointy haired variety ;)
Then again he might ignore you and ask you what you are doing reading
The residents of Sderot have every right to expect their government to protect them and if the government is refusing to take any preventative action, while over 7,000 rockets have fallen on the town, then suing the government seems a very reasonable action.
This I will have to agree on. If you are attacked you have the right to defend yourself, but the the overall situation is not simply one side attacking another. Despite having agreed to completely pull out from territory which has been designated as Palestinian, there are in fact still Israeli colonies there. Granted this move to expand has been prompted by pressure from the radical right, put this is not likely to ease the situation.
Whether Hamas will ever accept Israel as a nation is also another question, but there is so much tension on both sides that these issues might last a while.
Already did - I needed a new DVD player and could pick up an HD-DVD player with two movies for $60 at my local walmart.
;)
In a few years you could even sell it as a collectible
What do you call the main course in french, btw?
In French it is called "le plat principal", which word for word translates to the "the main plate".
Thank goodness we have Tim Hortons [timhortons.com] here in Canada where a Small is a small, a Medium is a medium, a Large is a large and an Extra-large is, you guessed it, an extra-large.
Ah, but you have never asked for a "regular" coffee. Turns out "regular" has different definitions depending where you are. Sometimes it is a double-double, sometimes its black and so on.
The fast food places do the same thing, without needing a fauxtalian translation to bring about.
That is another place that gets it so wrong. First time I looked at a menu in the states I saw "entrees", and thought to myself that the 1/2 lb steak was a bit much for a starter, though it turns out it was the main course. Speaking French, where the orginal version comes from "entrée" means starter.
The correlation is this: Ericsson are a dealer in mobile internet devices.
Maybe its time they covered their bases and bought a company like D-Link.
Now people will just go to Starbucks for the overpriced foo-foo coffees.
Customer: Could I have small coffee
Server: That would be a mezzo, sir
Customer: what the f*ck? mezzo is medium, piccolo is small
Server: sir mezzo means small
Customer: never mind, I'll a medium coffe
Server: That would be a grande, sir
Customer: Whatever, just give me a medium coffee that is actually a small.
foo-foo coffees and no grasp of language.
Its a real bummer that these TSA guys end up being no better than night club bouncers, but heck I suppose technology is not their forte, which is kind of ironic given they need to understand recognise what's going through the machine.
Anyhow, my question is if you miss a flight because of these TSA guys, does your airline put you on the next available flight at no extra cost?
Just in case this gets passed, I am going to take advantage of the anonymous coward option a bit more now on Slashdot. I want to feel that I got my fair use's worth. This doesn't mean I am going to post anything insightful or funny, but I have to get my money's worth, though I am not how you get your money's worth of something that is free - oh, well.
/. needs to mourn this by making every comment on that day an anonymous one :)
Well look on the bright side, if you ever go on holiday outside of the states then you will be free to post anonymously to your hearts content.
If this ever gets passed
Hmm, that seems to be incompatible with Karma whoring. You do realise this is likely to cause Karma whores to go mad.
There aren't many GOOD pc games coming out lately. So, if the manufacturers drop the ball on hardware ... it doesn't REALLY matter, because the software developers aren't doing much better either.
Then again crappy integrated graphics is not going to help much. I wanted to do some non-gaming 3D and I wa lucky to get some of the 3D working on one computer. This was a month old Dell Latitude using an integrated Intel chipset. Before I went the unoffical route the provided Dell driver could barely do OpenGL 1.0, and then with the official driver it could do OpenGL 1.5, but performance sucked big time. This is why if I choose a computer I make sure it has at least an ATI or Nvidia chipset, but unfortunately not everybody understands the importance here.
There is only so much a programmer can do if the hardware just doesn't support what they want to do.
I have spoken to a number of games developers and one advantage for them with consoles, is that they are relatively easy to develop for, since they aren't a moving target which it comes to configuration.
If you are spending a $1000 USD on a computer then it better have the ability to do OpenGL 2.0 well-ish.
Excuse me? Aside from the standard malware risks and stupid users, how is P2P an ID Theft risk?
Its called FUD. Take something people don't understand, add something they are scared of and the result they are more likely to vote in your favour.
Maybe the end of the current supply of Plutonium, could encourage better research into ion drives. Deep Space 1 already showed it was possible, not to increase the effectiveness:
- http://nmp.nasa.gov/ds1/
- http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/97/ioneng2.html
.. soon to be cracked, by a great army of brilliant chinese/taiwanese/etc.. engineers,
specialized in getting to know how everything works.
That is the irony, the pirates will have worked out how crack the system, while legitimate users will be cursing through their teeth as to why their $200 CPU is not working. Not helping things is that the contact number is on the CD, along with the manual, looking very useless.
Linky?
Here you go: http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/
I would imagine that you'd have a contract with Apple saying that you won't do that. And if you did, Apple would probably just revoke it. What good is a cert, from a security and accountability perspective, if it is being passed around the internet to random "friends" of yours?
Anything is doable, as long as you do things correctly. You not wanting to have your own certificate revoked is a good control point. You can create a virtual entity that your friends work under, and as long as nothing bad comes from it and you consistly use that entity for labelling your software, I doubt anyone would raise an eyebrow.
Wrong. Apps that are distributed for free are free.
They are free. You just need to pay $99 to be able to sign your application for distribution. Quite honestly $99 is actually cheaper than some places I have seen for a digital signature.
Is this GPL compatible? If I offer a GPL app on this store and provide source, the user can't use that source to modify the app without paying a fee, right? Is this a problem under the GPLv2? v3?
Certificate != DRM. A signature simply says that you certify that you are indeed the creator of the software. On the other hand DRM says you can only use this software after having handed over a limb, or something of the sorts.
With GPLed software you don't have to provide the source as part of the same distribution, but you have to provide a way of getting the source. This source could be on your web site, available by post, or whatever, but it has to be available. In your application add a blurb explaining how to get the source.
As for the $99 fee, technically there is nothing stoping you getting together with a bunch of friends and using the same signature. The only thing is you have better trust each other, since there is such thing as having a certificate revoked. I don't know whether Apple would to this, but this is the general notion. Its all down to a trust system. If you abuse the trust, then you lose it.
You sir are not a true geek ;-)
I doubt he would apprecaite ASCII Quake either.
I suppose European friends are the way to go, but in general non-USA friends. I am not sure which would be worse for a USA citizen, being discovered that you are subverting state censorship or being discovered by your government that you have been to Cuba.
On a similar note, there has been some indication that Apple will not put Java onto the iPhone. Does anyone know whether there is a J2ME reference implementation that could be adapted by a willing team of developers? Since most basic phones are capable of running Java, you can't use the excuse of lack of memory or CPU in this case.
the iPhone isn't powerful enough to run flash properly. Too bad.
A Pentium 4 with 2GB of memories isn't either in certain cases. There are certain sites that are so chock full of flash, and I am not even talking about adult sites either, that they can bring the computer to a crawl. You wonder what is going on and then experience directs you to another tab in your browser. Closing that tab, brings your computer back to normal. The iPhone is more limited in its resources so is going to suffer faster.
Half the problem with Flash is that they are mostly developed by people with more sense about good design (and even that is sometimes questionable), than good programming.
Having said all this does anyone know how memory and CPU compares in an iPhone with regards to a Wii, which does support Flash in Opera.
BTW I believe the iPhone does support SVG, so if you want vector graphics this is an option.