Because this was actually a test target for the X-37 which launched 4/22/2010, but they had to make it LOOK like a malfunction so the Russians and Chinese wouldn't notice or be able to publically comment..
What about wireless? If we could get a few GHZ of bandwidth that the FCC has been hoarding for years, use IPv6, mesh networking, etc. we could probably get there. They reserved all that spectrum back when they knew it would be valuable but didn't know what for. The time has arrived. Digital standardized communications with standard protocols (IP) is here and we need the bandwidth back, please. We the people need to referendum that back.
Just to clarify, NPR relies on the listeners to pay the majority of the tab for operating expenses. Yes, they have gotten grants from the government. But grants are not equal to subsidies. Furthermore, they are a non-profit charity acting for the good of the people whereas ISPs, as you said, are for-profit. I don't like certain for-profit companies getting an unfair advantage from the government, unless it's something we're really falling behind the world in. As of now, we're doing pretty good with broadband, and the companies are making money finally. At this point, they need to expand access and make it faster. Otherwise the government (we, the people) WILL have to step in and say "what are you doing with this money, even though it was no-strings money, we can make your life hell with taxes and such?" or collectively boycott their services, which is difficult even after deregulation since only a few companies control the copper..
Guess what, there are two major "political parties" in this country and they are BOTH controlled by big business and big groups. The hot button "differences" are just distractions. However, HISTORICALLY, the republicans are for "a republic", which has meant that you send your richest, smartest people and trust them to run things for you and the democrats are for "a democracy", which has meant that we put everything to a vote and do what the majority of the people want. In general, Republicans might forget more about the poorest people, whereas Democrats might forget about the richest. It is ironic that some of the poorest people vote Republican, but that's because that is their philosophy. Like their "Fundamentalist Christian" church espouses, they prefer to leave the thinkin' to someone else. BUT, make no mistake, anyone involved in the politics game is on a gravy train with biscuit wheels and that's how it works in America. So unless you get involved, vote, run for city council, state senator, lobby, etc. you are really going to have to suffer what you get from the people who do.
Even the people who tout "less government" really only want less government for THEIR farm, or THEIR factory, and they want MORE government on their competition. In the end, it's all about money. So, do yourselves a favor and go get some and stop bickering about made up television talking points that have no bearing on your life, or anyone elses' for that matter.
Actually, you're wrong. THERE IS NO "THE INTERNET" so no one can be "in charge" of it. It's this simple fact that is commonly overlooked.
The telcoms want to sell you something, something they call "The Internet", but really it's their own corporate network branded as "The Internet". The government also wants to sell you something they call "The Internet", which is a bunch of laws on what people can do with networks, made by people who know nothing about them.
There is no "the internet", is the problem. "The Internet" is how we refer to the phenomenon of people who own different networks wanting to connect those networks to other people. It just so happens that IP (Internet Protocol) enables this with little or no oversight. ARIN is pretty much the only oversight, and they just make sure no two people get the same number. Wow, it's that simple? Yes.
Other than that, as a network owner, you can choose who you connect to by, well, connecting to them. Then you put a couple of "routes" in a router and if you want you can advertise your network as a pathway between those two networks using something called BGP.
Really, the thing that would solve the most problems is to go to IPv6, which would open up all that multicast address space and pretty much make content delivery easy and cheap, even over a "mesh network" (where you rely on your neighbors and they rely on you for connectivity). I'm sorry to both the corporations and the government but we computer nerds thought this through and there's nothing more human than "The Internet", *people* *actually* *talking* with each other, working out ways to connect networks together and then sharing that connectivity. It's something that we've all benefitted from, but sooner or later you become outmodded. In this case, classic telcom has become outmodded. Like the railroad industry example, it's tough to control all the traffic when everyone has a car and is free to drive wherever they want..
So now, we need to figure out the roads. That's actually the easy part since there's ample radio spectrum available in any given locality to carry an order of magnitude more traffic than the entire internet carries today. And of course peoplea re free to pull wires, fiber optics, etc. between each other's houses and businesses. And if we want, we can graciously pay a company to do it for us. But if they then decide they are going to raise rates because they have a monopoly or oligarchy, they are going to lose the privilege of owning those wires until we find someone who will respect the right of the people to have good roads to get our information on.
In fact, and I'm just going to continue this a little, the BGP space should be opened to MORE people, not less. Why shouldn't I help my neighbor with a 56K modem out with his traffic when I have extra bandwidth available? This is the conversation that should be happening, and the reason P2P stuff exists. People want to share, they want to trade on a free market. The hierarchial telcom structure does not enable that.
Right. The issue is that people don't get it. There is no "THE INTERNET". It's just a name to describe the phenomenon of various people who own networks making agreements to
A. make connections between the networks B. share traffic traversing the networks
It must amaze the Government bureaucrats that something without a command and control structure works so well.
The bottom line is that it works well because it's a free market of connections; as a network owner, you are free to connect to other networks at will and also free to agree with them to carry their traffic if you can get it closer to it's final destination.
Yeah, but don't make friends with people who don't share your work ethic, because eventually you'll be put on a job together and one of you will be raring to get it done and the other wants to milk it and be lazy and.....chaos ensues.
You can be a friend of the worker or a friend of the management. You can't really be both all the time. Who you're friends with depends on where you want to go.
That said, being friendly and attractive (personality-wise) will bring you more than programming skill you'll ever learn: having good personal grooming habits such as haircuts, shaving, wearing clothes in style, having some energy and color in your voice; all of these things make you attractive to others.
I think the biggest issue I have with kids is thinking they know everything and not bothering to ask questions about why things are the way they are before changing them. Or asking the same questions over and over again, saying "OK" each time by clearly never getting it. Recognize that people treat work like a home away from home and don't do anything you wouldn't do in someone else's home. Recognize that everyone has something in their head you can learn.
Gradually, and I mean over years, you accululate responsibility and the ability to personalize stuff. People come and go a lot in this industry (less so lately, but turnover will pick back up), so usually your unhappy coworker no one likes will go somewhere else he's happy.
And remember that usually when people are unhappy it's because of something outside of work, so respect that people can have a bad day and just lay off if you notice something like that.
Lastly, avoid partying with co-workers (outside of work functions), fornicating with co-workers, conspiring with co-workers, etc. Keep work and home separate and you'll have a nice long happy career. If you're just starting out, work can be a good place to meet future friends, but I highly advise switching jobs before you take them up on the offer for drinks.
Pft, or like how they (Cisco) sell ram for routers at astonishingly high rates: like this over the-top example, and it's essentially just a 256MB DDR SDRAM. Sure, it's ECC, but last I checked you couldn't GIVE away 256MB SDRAMs. This is a standard PC or Laptop form factor. They also sell compact flash cards, which are regular CF cards, with a Cisco sticker, for 433 bucks, here's one that's 256MB (bigger) for 10.99!. So if idiots are buying them, maybe someone in China says "hey, we buy these surplus compact flash cards for $4/piece, spend $1 to print Cisco stickers and sell them on the web for $400, that's a nice 8000% profit.
I hope they didn't make a mistake and grab the real gear. I've been trying to buy an ASA 5510 for like 2 months and it's been backordered to China like 3 times. Granted, they have a new OS out last month and they're shipping a new model with more RAM but jesus.
That sounds like a tree. Like LDAP for instance, who has been doing this with extremely high performance, with replication, etc. for decades;) These are all solved problems, new copies of the same comes out every 10 years in a cycle, and all the new kids don't realize that it already existed, came to full maturity and was bought by IBM long ago.. IBM has a product that will solve everyone's problems if you'd just call them. But the kids like to go it alone, as if the problem of indexing a few million web pages is anything hard like say, the U.S. Census or the NASDAQ trading system. I have a system I'm working on that has 400,000 users on mysql and it was running on a single Pentium 4 processor with a single 7200 rpm SATA drive and ran fine. A lot of stuff was done with Perl and flat files to keep stuff responsive. I mean, in one core of a modern PC you have more processing than the entire IRS had in 1980, yet they still managed to do everyone's tax returns, year after year. As if your stupid "Social" interactions are critical to anything. As if anyone gives a fuck what you had for breakfast today. Jesus, stop caring so much and learn how to program instead of jumping on the fucking hype wagon of cargo-cult data storage and retrieval.
And what about memcached? It's a simple key/value object database. What about an "associative array", isn't that basically a key/value database? I don't see what the hype is about.
The "connections" are not the problem. The problem is the individual neurons. These are each living cells. Like all cells, they require energy in the form of glucose and oxygen. Like all cells, if they are overworked without sufficient sugar and oxygen they die.
It's interesting that you should mention the connections or synapses, because this is actually part of the problem that leads to alzheimer's. What happens is a synapse is basically a one-way junction. Essentially there is a sending side and a receiving side. Neuron A fires and releases Serotonin and other transmitters (depending on the type of neuron) at the synapse, which in turn stimulates the next neuron.
There are several ways that neurons regulate their stimulation. A lot of it is controlled my eenzymes in the synapse, as well as in the neurons themselves.
In Excitotoxicity, a build up of glutamate or NMDA results in the cell overworking itself and it essentially commits suicide. The build up is caused by other neighboring neurons also being overworked.
There is actually another neurotransmitter that works to reverse-propagate feedback signals across the ordinarily one-way synapse (see Retrograde Signalling). In patients with Alzheimer's, this reverse pathway gets disrupted by an enzyme. This enzyme also attacks the neurons in their weakened state.
Actually, overuse of neurons can cause them to inflame and die. That's one of the major causes of Alzheimer's. So, perhaps chess players lack some of the regulating feedback systems that most normal people have. This enables their brains to work at a higher "clock speed" than most, but it also could cause the death of brain cells at a much faster rate. But you're right, for "most people", brain activity exercises the brain and keeps the synapse connections working and is good for your mental health.
No one seems to realize we're getting played if we continue to talk about this. Steve Jobs said something about a competing technology. Who cares? Just because beyond-proprietary-Apple doesn't want it doesn't mean it serves a purpose. It's good at a lot of what it does and it definitely drove HTML5 and CSS3. It's good to have a plugin to do advanced graphics and interactivity until the specs and the javascript and browser compatability are solved problems, which they aren't (be we're finally getting close).
All that really matters is that the initial narrative was sufficiently plausible to gain a life of its own.
The incubator being the CIA-controlled media, or whatever controls it now (the evangelical christians, I don't know). Whom, depending on the day--among other factors--may decide to cause the public opinion to sway in favor of belief in manmade climate change or against it. Some of them maybe want to start WWIII or the apocalypse. Some people just want to prevent the sea from rising 10m. Others are already on high ground and away from any primary targets;)
Yeah, but my editor already has auto complete and macros to insert stuff. I've seen our designer at work use this, but as a developer, I wouldn't touch it. I'm generally just jamming stuff into an insert point anyway and let them handle the views.
Of interest to me is that if you're on a IPv6 network with IPv6 internetworking (not one of those proxy hop services), the internet is quite a bit faster because you're likely not going to get routed around anything less than a 1Gbps connection.
Whereas there's cruft and bad entries in the old v4 routing table that may never disappear fully, since BGP is constantly replicating them around.
Also, ARIN is giving out/48 to individuals (through ISPs) and I believe/32 to ISPs. A/48 is 2^16/64 subnets of 2^64 addresses. This leads to lots of interesting possibilities with subnetting, using virtual IP addressing instead of ports (because you can use DNS and other nice stuff), even using publically routable IPs in the internal messaging subsystems of an OS. Oh, there's a lot of possibilties. Then you have the massive multicast space (120 bits or 1.3 trillion trillion trillion addresses) which will literally change content delivery as we know it forever. P2P on massive scales is simple. Mesh networking that actually works will be pretty simple also. This will hopefully alleviate any problems with network neutrality, but only if we get enough in place before the media mafia pressure through the clamp-down.
If your employer has a good enough ISP and IPv6 is available, I strongly recommend starting to move/provision services and AAAA records. It's going to be a big wave when it hits, and it's going to be soon (no more than 5 years). If you're an individual, many ISPs are giving out v6. Ask your university if you're a student. It's really time to take this internet thing to the next level.
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Because this was actually a test target for the X-37 which launched 4/22/2010, but they had to make it LOOK like a malfunction so the Russians and Chinese wouldn't notice or be able to publically comment..
What about wireless? If we could get a few GHZ of bandwidth that the FCC has been hoarding for years, use IPv6, mesh networking, etc. we could probably get there. They reserved all that spectrum back when they knew it would be valuable but didn't know what for. The time has arrived. Digital standardized communications with standard protocols (IP) is here and we need the bandwidth back, please. We the people need to referendum that back.
If only there was a way to send information through.....the air.
Just to clarify, NPR relies on the listeners to pay the majority of the tab for operating expenses. Yes, they have gotten grants from the government. But grants are not equal to subsidies. Furthermore, they are a non-profit charity acting for the good of the people whereas ISPs, as you said, are for-profit. I don't like certain for-profit companies getting an unfair advantage from the government, unless it's something we're really falling behind the world in. As of now, we're doing pretty good with broadband, and the companies are making money finally. At this point, they need to expand access and make it faster. Otherwise the government (we, the people) WILL have to step in and say "what are you doing with this money, even though it was no-strings money, we can make your life hell with taxes and such?" or collectively boycott their services, which is difficult even after deregulation since only a few companies control the copper..
Guess what, there are two major "political parties" in this country and they are BOTH controlled by big business and big groups. The hot button "differences" are just distractions. However, HISTORICALLY, the republicans are for "a republic", which has meant that you send your richest, smartest people and trust them to run things for you and the democrats are for "a democracy", which has meant that we put everything to a vote and do what the majority of the people want. In general, Republicans might forget more about the poorest people, whereas Democrats might forget about the richest. It is ironic that some of the poorest people vote Republican, but that's because that is their philosophy. Like their "Fundamentalist Christian" church espouses, they prefer to leave the thinkin' to someone else. BUT, make no mistake, anyone involved in the politics game is on a gravy train with biscuit wheels and that's how it works in America. So unless you get involved, vote, run for city council, state senator, lobby, etc. you are really going to have to suffer what you get from the people who do.
Even the people who tout "less government" really only want less government for THEIR farm, or THEIR factory, and they want MORE government on their competition. In the end, it's all about money. So, do yourselves a favor and go get some and stop bickering about made up television talking points that have no bearing on your life, or anyone elses' for that matter.
Actually, you're wrong. THERE IS NO "THE INTERNET" so no one can be "in charge" of it. It's this simple fact that is commonly overlooked.
The telcoms want to sell you something, something they call "The Internet", but really it's their own corporate network branded as "The Internet". The government also wants to sell you something they call "The Internet", which is a bunch of laws on what people can do with networks, made by people who know nothing about them.
There is no "the internet", is the problem. "The Internet" is how we refer to the phenomenon of people who own different networks wanting to connect those networks to other people. It just so happens that IP (Internet Protocol) enables this with little or no oversight. ARIN is pretty much the only oversight, and they just make sure no two people get the same number. Wow, it's that simple? Yes.
Other than that, as a network owner, you can choose who you connect to by, well, connecting to them. Then you put a couple of "routes" in a router and if you want you can advertise your network as a pathway between those two networks using something called BGP.
Really, the thing that would solve the most problems is to go to IPv6, which would open up all that multicast address space and pretty much make content delivery easy and cheap, even over a "mesh network" (where you rely on your neighbors and they rely on you for connectivity). I'm sorry to both the corporations and the government but we computer nerds thought this through and there's nothing more human than "The Internet", *people* *actually* *talking* with each other, working out ways to connect networks together and then sharing that connectivity. It's something that we've all benefitted from, but sooner or later you become outmodded. In this case, classic telcom has become outmodded. Like the railroad industry example, it's tough to control all the traffic when everyone has a car and is free to drive wherever they want..
So now, we need to figure out the roads. That's actually the easy part since there's ample radio spectrum available in any given locality to carry an order of magnitude more traffic than the entire internet carries today. And of course peoplea re free to pull wires, fiber optics, etc. between each other's houses and businesses. And if we want, we can graciously pay a company to do it for us. But if they then decide they are going to raise rates because they have a monopoly or oligarchy, they are going to lose the privilege of owning those wires until we find someone who will respect the right of the people to have good roads to get our information on.
In fact, and I'm just going to continue this a little, the BGP space should be opened to MORE people, not less. Why shouldn't I help my neighbor with a 56K modem out with his traffic when I have extra bandwidth available? This is the conversation that should be happening, and the reason P2P stuff exists. People want to share, they want to trade on a free market. The hierarchial telcom structure does not enable that.
Right. The issue is that people don't get it. There is no "THE INTERNET". It's just a name to describe the phenomenon of various people who own networks making agreements to
A. make connections between the networks
B. share traffic traversing the networks
It must amaze the Government bureaucrats that something without a command and control structure works so well.
The bottom line is that it works well because it's a free market of connections; as a network owner, you are free to connect to other networks at will and also free to agree with them to carry their traffic if you can get it closer to it's final destination.
Use Route Views.
Yeah, but don't make friends with people who don't share your work ethic, because eventually you'll be put on a job together and one of you will be raring to get it done and the other wants to milk it and be lazy and.....chaos ensues.
You can be a friend of the worker or a friend of the management. You can't really be both all the time. Who you're friends with depends on where you want to go.
That said, being friendly and attractive (personality-wise) will bring you more than programming skill you'll ever learn: having good personal grooming habits such as haircuts, shaving, wearing clothes in style, having some energy and color in your voice; all of these things make you attractive to others.
I think the biggest issue I have with kids is thinking they know everything and not bothering to ask questions about why things are the way they are before changing them. Or asking the same questions over and over again, saying "OK" each time by clearly never getting it. Recognize that people treat work like a home away from home and don't do anything you wouldn't do in someone else's home. Recognize that everyone has something in their head you can learn.
Gradually, and I mean over years, you accululate responsibility and the ability to personalize stuff. People come and go a lot in this industry (less so lately, but turnover will pick back up), so usually your unhappy coworker no one likes will go somewhere else he's happy.
And remember that usually when people are unhappy it's because of something outside of work, so respect that people can have a bad day and just lay off if you notice something like that.
Lastly, avoid partying with co-workers (outside of work functions), fornicating with co-workers, conspiring with co-workers, etc. Keep work and home separate and you'll have a nice long happy career. If you're just starting out, work can be a good place to meet future friends, but I highly advise switching jobs before you take them up on the offer for drinks.
Pft, or like how they (Cisco) sell ram for routers at astonishingly high rates: like this over the-top example, and it's essentially just a 256MB DDR SDRAM. Sure, it's ECC, but last I checked you couldn't GIVE away 256MB SDRAMs. This is a standard PC or Laptop form factor. They also sell compact flash cards, which are regular CF cards, with a Cisco sticker, for 433 bucks, here's one that's 256MB (bigger) for 10.99!. So if idiots are buying them, maybe someone in China says "hey, we buy these surplus compact flash cards for $4/piece, spend $1 to print Cisco stickers and sell them on the web for $400, that's a nice 8000% profit.
I hope they didn't make a mistake and grab the real gear. I've been trying to buy an ASA 5510 for like 2 months and it's been backordered to China like 3 times. Granted, they have a new OS out last month and they're shipping a new model with more RAM but jesus.
That sounds like a tree. Like LDAP for instance, who has been doing this with extremely high performance, with replication, etc. for decades ;) These are all solved problems, new copies of the same comes out every 10 years in a cycle, and all the new kids don't realize that it already existed, came to full maturity and was bought by IBM long ago.. IBM has a product that will solve everyone's problems if you'd just call them. But the kids like to go it alone, as if the problem of indexing a few million web pages is anything hard like say, the U.S. Census or the NASDAQ trading system. I have a system I'm working on that has 400,000 users on mysql and it was running on a single Pentium 4 processor with a single 7200 rpm SATA drive and ran fine. A lot of stuff was done with Perl and flat files to keep stuff responsive. I mean, in one core of a modern PC you have more processing than the entire IRS had in 1980, yet they still managed to do everyone's tax returns, year after year. As if your stupid "Social" interactions are critical to anything. As if anyone gives a fuck what you had for breakfast today. Jesus, stop caring so much and learn how to program instead of jumping on the fucking hype wagon of cargo-cult data storage and retrieval.
And yes, I did that in one paragraph on purpose.
And what about memcached? It's a simple key/value object database. What about an "associative array", isn't that basically a key/value database? I don't see what the hype is about.
Have you seen the new twice as expensive, but only two-color Plasma from a little Japanese Company called Kobayashi Maru?
brick-shittingly amazing results
Damn, I'm going to use this again on Slashdot.
The "connections" are not the problem. The problem is the individual neurons. These are each living cells. Like all cells, they require energy in the form of glucose and oxygen. Like all cells, if they are overworked without sufficient sugar and oxygen they die.
It's interesting that you should mention the connections or synapses, because this is actually part of the problem that leads to alzheimer's. What happens is a synapse is basically a one-way junction. Essentially there is a sending side and a receiving side. Neuron A fires and releases Serotonin and other transmitters (depending on the type of neuron) at the synapse, which in turn stimulates the next neuron.
There are several ways that neurons regulate their stimulation. A lot of it is controlled my eenzymes in the synapse, as well as in the neurons themselves.
In Excitotoxicity, a build up of glutamate or NMDA results in the cell overworking itself and it essentially commits suicide. The build up is caused by other neighboring neurons also being overworked.
There is actually another neurotransmitter that works to reverse-propagate feedback signals across the ordinarily one-way synapse (see Retrograde Signalling). In patients with Alzheimer's, this reverse pathway gets disrupted by an enzyme. This enzyme also attacks the neurons in their weakened state.
Actually, overuse of neurons can cause them to inflame and die. That's one of the major causes of Alzheimer's. So, perhaps chess players lack some of the regulating feedback systems that most normal people have. This enables their brains to work at a higher "clock speed" than most, but it also could cause the death of brain cells at a much faster rate. But you're right, for "most people", brain activity exercises the brain and keeps the synapse connections working and is good for your mental health.
No one seems to realize we're getting played if we continue to talk about this. Steve Jobs said something about a competing technology. Who cares? Just because beyond-proprietary-Apple doesn't want it doesn't mean it serves a purpose. It's good at a lot of what it does and it definitely drove HTML5 and CSS3. It's good to have a plugin to do advanced graphics and interactivity until the specs and the javascript and browser compatability are solved problems, which they aren't (be we're finally getting close).
All that really matters is that the initial narrative was sufficiently plausible to gain a life of its own.
The incubator being the CIA-controlled media, or whatever controls it now (the evangelical christians, I don't know). Whom, depending on the day--among other factors--may decide to cause the public opinion to sway in favor of belief in manmade climate change or against it. Some of them maybe want to start WWIII or the apocalypse. Some people just want to prevent the sea from rising 10m. Others are already on high ground and away from any primary targets ;)
Eric Schmidt: If you're not following the the normal day/night patterns of the sun, maybe you shouldn't be doing it.
Yeah, but my editor already has auto complete and macros to insert stuff. I've seen our designer at work use this, but as a developer, I wouldn't touch it. I'm generally just jamming stuff into an insert point anyway and let them handle the views.
Yeah, I could see these replacing the Celerons in Cisco hardware.
Of interest to me is that if you're on a IPv6 network with IPv6 internetworking (not one of those proxy hop services), the internet is quite a bit faster because you're likely not going to get routed around anything less than a 1Gbps connection.
Whereas there's cruft and bad entries in the old v4 routing table that may never disappear fully, since BGP is constantly replicating them around.
Also, ARIN is giving out /48 to individuals (through ISPs) and I believe /32 to ISPs. A /48 is 2^16 /64 subnets of 2^64 addresses. This leads to lots of interesting possibilities with subnetting, using virtual IP addressing instead of ports (because you can use DNS and other nice stuff), even using publically routable IPs in the internal messaging subsystems of an OS. Oh, there's a lot of possibilties. Then you have the massive multicast space (120 bits or 1.3 trillion trillion trillion addresses) which will literally change content delivery as we know it forever. P2P on massive scales is simple. Mesh networking that actually works will be pretty simple also. This will hopefully alleviate any problems with network neutrality, but only if we get enough in place before the media mafia pressure through the clamp-down.
If your employer has a good enough ISP and IPv6 is available, I strongly recommend starting to move/provision services and AAAA records. It's going to be a big wave when it hits, and it's going to be soon (no more than 5 years). If you're an individual, many ISPs are giving out v6. Ask your university if you're a student. It's really time to take this internet thing to the next level.