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  1. Re:The end is nigh? on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    It is trivial, if you're doing it in hardware, but the point being that you could reallocate that hardware to handle the few extra bytes of header size. You also get jumbogram packets which can reduce router work load by reducing packet counts. When you add it all up, the trivial increase in header size from the larger address space doesn't compare to the savings to be had from the routing improvements as far as router hardware needs are concerned.

  2. Re:AMD and NVIDIA?? on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Redundant? I have twice as much suppose!
    Nail em metamods!

  3. Re:AMD and NVIDIA?? on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I suppose you meant is that "suppose" supposed to be "supposed"

  4. Re:When will it stop? on IBM and AMD Create First 22nm SRAM Cell · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_radius
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon

    The atomic radius of the smallest solid is carbon at ~65pm. So 22nm = 22000 pm / 65pm = 338X improvement remaining.

    As a physical limit, it is hard to see how a computer could be manufactured that used less than one atom per circuit. It is probably not realistic to expect that we will get close to that. In any case, even if we reach single-atom transistors, going beyond that will be a tremendous challenge.

    So, at 2 years per halving of feature size, Moore's law has less than 2 decades of life left, barring bizarre physics discoveries.

  5. Re:When will it stop? on IBM and AMD Create First 22nm SRAM Cell · · Score: 1

    How many times does it have to be said: The internet is, in fact, largely composed of a series of tubes containing copper wires and fiber optic cables. Ted Stevens may be an evil idiot, and may have fundamentally misunderstood what the internet is, but his statement was not factually incorrect.

  6. Re:IBM and AMD on IBM and AMD Create First 22nm SRAM Cell · · Score: 1

    I always wonder with these posts, are they clever white racist propaganda implying that all black guys are gay, or clever black racist propaganda implying that white racists are all idiots, or stupid black racist propaganda implying that white people should be afraid of gay black men?

  7. Re:But some artists suck. on Support Grows For Blanket Music Licensing · · Score: 1

    In theory, the money goes into a pot, and then is redivided based on what was listened to. Since there are no longer ownership issues, they can stream the data to you, or your player can report what you play from your cache, and you don't have to worry about legality. By allowing your device to report what you listen to, you choose to reward the artists you've picked.

  8. Re:I'm so screwed on The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real · · Score: 1

    If you want to sleep with gold medal olympic gymnasts, be prepared to pay more than $300/hr. There are qualitative differences in both what a high priced hooker can do, and in how they look. That may matter to you, if it does, you have to be prepared to pay for it. I mean, anyone can settle for a pimple faced homosexual to jerk them off for $15. But maybe you don't want to.

    As for wine, you can get individual bottles ranging up to about $80,000 (I'm sure there are some more expensive ones I haven't heard of ....).

  9. Re:Makes me happy on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    No, but unless you have an infinite resolution monitor, your web browser does. :-)

  10. creepy on Leaping the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    Face slanted to the side, blinking uneven. Really creepy.

  11. Re:I'm so screwed on The Duke Is Finally Back, For Real · · Score: 1

    The best quality hookers cost 5-10k per hour and earn every penny. Quality booze can be drunk at a rate of about 25k per hour, so if his wife sleeps 8 hours he could have spent 280k, plus about $5 for the viagra he'd probably need to fully enjoy the experience.

  12. Re:The end is nigh? on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    That's not all you get at the packet level.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Simplified_processing_by_routers

  13. Re:Makes me happy on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 4, Informative

    One of the key features of ipv6 is simplified routing (it was pretty much the #1 design improvement), so the amount of processing routers have to do goes way down, in spite of the higher bit count.

    Please read the first page of this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

    and of course more if you are seriously interested.

  14. Re:Makes me happy on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    There are going to be more than 4billion homes in the next 50 years. Whose home doesn't get a home address?

  15. Re:The end is nigh? on Level of IPv6 Usage Is Vanishingly Small · · Score: 1

    There were other considerations during the reinvention. In particular, IPV6 routing requires much less cpu power.

  16. Re:This isn't about free speech on MySpace Suicide Charges Threaten Free Speech · · Score: 1

    I don't know where 'one person' came into this. Most people who know the details of Hitler and Lori Drew judge both to be evil.

  17. Re:In response to your sig... on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously going to try to argue that most people don't find that hilarious? Or was that a meta-joke? :-)

  18. Re:America used to be #1 on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    You can obtain dry ice from most places that offer aluminum foil and toilet bowl cleaner. Most places that sell ice sell dry ice as well.

  19. Re:In response to your sig... on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    Right, at a minimum, common pop-culture references represent a common thought. At best, that means that it is common to think it is funny to make fun of Germans for rolling over for the nazis. Which proves my point, even if that is the ONLY reason it comes up in popular culture.

  20. Re:In response to your sig... on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    As I clarified in another post, I don't claim to hold those views, I claim that they are widespread. So widespread, in fact, that they show up frequently as pop-culture references. Would you claim that Islamaphobia is not widespread in America based on all the pop culture references to it?

  21. Re:In response to your sig... on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    I don't think I misunderstood your claim. And while I, personally, might not prejudge you, I can assure you that yes, many USians on the street will prejudge you in exactly the way I described. The point of my post describing the TV appearances of this prejudice was to clarify that the prejudice is SO COMMON in the thinking of Americans that it frequently makes it into mainstream television.

  22. Re:In response to your sig... on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: 1

    Off topic? How much more on topic could the parent get? Please nuke in meta moderation.

  23. Re:In response to your sig... on YouTube Yanks Free Tibet Video After IOC Pressure · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have bad news for you. You are widely judged for you country's history pre 1950. You're seen (in the US at least) as 'those people who wouldn't stand up to the nazis' (or their descendants).

    I can think of a few tv shows just in the last year that made fun of you that way (Simpsons, Outer Limits, Monk). If I pushed my memory I could probably come up with a few more examples.

  24. Re:WTF? Translation, anyone? on Strong Bad Episode 1 Hits the WiiWare Shop · · Score: 1

    However many nerd points you loose, you gain nerd points for not following the link to RTFA in the slashdot article from a couple days ago with the Internet Meme timeline.

    http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes

    You'll find homestar runner at june 30, 2001, at the first level of zoom!

  25. Re:"Compelled?" on Watching China Turn Off the Pollution · · Score: 1

    The 'government agents will arrest you and send you to an unpleasant prison if you don't comply' kind of compulsion.