It seems that we very close to the point where every device supports IPv6 (Vista adoption is helping this) but just isn't using it. Let's start turning it on. What better way to help the adoption than by having users who are IPv6 only complaining?
Actually, the problem is that most DEVICES don't support IPv6. The only thing the adoption of Vista (and also OS X which enables IPv6 by default) has done is increased the support for IPv6 on computers.
What about your router? The only SOHO router I know of that supports IPv6 out of the box is Apple's Airport Extreme. What about the Cable/DSL Modems, not to mention all the other Linksys, DLink, (Insert your brand) routers?
What difference does it make if most of the computers can use IPv6, if the infrastructure that connects them to the internet still doesn't/can't support IPv6?
Hmmm when I read it, I was thinking more along the lines of:
"Your Data and Resources will be catalogued, indexed, and assimilated into the Googleplex collective. Resistance can be found by clicking on this link."
Yarr, avast ye maties, plunder me some big iron and NAS!
Hmmmm and they call US "pirates"? I wonder if a little "Data Piracy on the High Seas" might change their tune?
On the other hand, a small private army could be employed to protect the barges, and they could probably work out a tethered tap into an unused transatlantic fiber strand (are there any?) tap it, and you've instantly got a high-speed connection to both sides of the Atlantic and instant redundancy if one side breaks.:)
Time to stop using you xBox to run your financial empire, kids. Get the grizzled old traders back and fire the children.
Never happen.
Every brokerage house in the country is increasing their presence in "Automated Trading". The majority of these companies income is now made on small percentage point fluctuations brokered very fast. With the automated systems pulling in that much more money than the traditional ones, and with more algorithms being designed (and held as proprietary info), what would YOU do?
Ridiculous? Yes. Not going away? Also Yes.
Might as well vote to bring back the horse drawn carriage since the price of gas has risen so much lately.
The trick is to either redefine what the term means (so they are actually referring to 9.9999% uptime), or the timeframe (we've been at "5 nines" for the whole year" - said Jan 1 2009), or both ("so, we use 1 day as a data point, then if we've been up for any part of that day, we're good... so we've always operated at '5 nines' reliability")
Peter Griffin: [after "Family Guy" returns to Fox with new episodes, after a few years off the air] Everybody, I got bad news. We've been canceled.
Lois Griffin: Oh, no! Peter, how could they do that?
Peter Griffin: Well, unfortunately, Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We've just got to accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows, like "Dark Angel", "Titus", "Undeclared", "Action", "That '80s Show", "Wonder Falls", "Fastlane", "Andy Richter Controls the Universe", "Skin", "Girls Club", "Cracking Up", "The Pitts", "Firefly", "Get Real", "Freaky Links", "Wanda at Large", "Costello", "The Lone Gunmen", "A Minute with Stan Hooper", "Normal, Ohio", "Pasadena", "Harsh Realm", "Keen Eddie", "The Street", "American Embassy", "Cedric the Entertainer", "The Tick", "Louie", and "Greg the Bunny".
Lois Griffin: Is there no hope?
Peter Griffin: Well, I suppose if all those shows go down the tubes, we might have a shot.
If IT wants to unionize, forget traditional labor unions. Lobby. Make the economy and tech labor issues move to the top of the campaigns. Spread your propaganda to all your union employees and astroturf the hell out of it. MADD and AARP are far more effective "unions" than the teamsters. Bend the laws to make it unprofitable to offshore. Spread beyond IT, many of us EE/CS/ME types feel the same pain you do. I'd pay dues for an organization that had real power in Washington for issues I care about.
Exactly.
Lets start with simple things. There are a number of "Trade Organizations" that relate to what most of us do.
Those are better options for IT. Join professional organizations (and your MSCE isn't what I mean), and found a PAC or Lobbying group to support our interests, and we'd be in much better shape than trying to unionize.
Well, I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't have found either of those orgs (IEEE or ACM) if it hadn't been for a professor who mentioned them when I went back to college to finish up my degree. This was after I was already working in the field and had been for almost 8 years. This probably isn't uncommon in a group that has a large contingent of "self taught" people.
I'm guessing that her view of "The U.S." was the coastal cities and nothing else. Sort of missing the whole middle of the country with wide open areas.
Kinda nice to know that us American's aren't the only ones to sometimes have a completely wrong view of the world.:)
Ah yes, the standards for the Next Generation of Cod are always important. I suggest an extra fin and maybe an extra eye or two (more elusive prey).
Jokes aside, implementing even a few of those things will usually improve the level of code written and its maintainability (the more the merrier though:) ).
So if the cameras verify your car's make and model, and license plate.... what again does the wireless transponder thing do?
Assuming I understood the original parent correctly, they are claiming that the Wireless transponder is supposed to be the "Foreign Key" to the table of information that is suppose to match what the cameras can see.
Personally I doubt anyone actually looks at any of the cameras unless and until there is a problem, and I find it highly unlikely that the system actually bothers to do any recognition (on the license plate or on the make/model of car).
All the info I've seen says that the core functionality is free, but that there will still be "premium content" users will have to pay for.
For instance, you'll be given a basic starter apartment for free, but be able to buy a bigger space (to hold more stuff, some free, some not), for a small fee.
Not a bad middle ground for the system, since it lets users have a fully useable system for free, but lets people who believe that the "flame stickers make it go faster" pay for that privilege (and it helps encourage third parties to make items for sale, or to pay for "display space"/ads in Home which helps pay for an otherwise free infrastructure).
When it comes to quality exclusives and actually delivering on promises, the PS3 is a joke compared to the 360.
I think you're a bit behind the times. You owe it to yourself to check out the many excellent current titles.
Nah, let him just keep repeating that tired old meme.
We'll keep enjoying the Ratchet & Clank Future and Resistance series, Drake's Fortune, Warhawk (psyched about the new expansion due out this week), Little Big Planet, God of War 3, or downloadable games like Super Startdust HD, Pixel Junk Monsters, etc. The lack of games from when the PS3 launched is a thing of the past. If he doesn't want to look at what's available, thats his problem. Heck, there are enough free demos he could download if he wanted to try out most of them.
Of course, there is also the Video download store now, an in game XMB, Trophies, and the DLNA compliant client so you can stream media in lots of different formats to it from Windows Linux or OSX.
Its not like Sony has closed the gap with the Live! and is getting ready to pass it or something.~
A "feet" piece (one solid mass), a "torso" piece (again, one solid mass with bulges for arms and no hands), a yellow head (no face), and a hat or hair as appropriate.
I think my first Lego was a medi-vac helicopter with two attendants and a patient. The way you had them "carry" the stretcher was to clip the 2x12 stud board between the feet and torso piece on both attendants.:)
The Galaxy Explorer was probably the second set I remember getting. I wish LEGO would come out with "retro" sets of the old space line. I always wanted to build a massive moonbase, but now when I have the space for it, they don't have the parts.:( (where are the crater and landing pad tiles I always wanted to use?, Where are the blue, gray and white tiles I came to expect from my childhood?... okay... you can get off my lawn now;) )
e8500... hmmm maybe its a new eMachine that he used as a base to build on? 4gb ddr2 1066... ah! he picked up "Four "Gnarly-Bro" Dance Dance Revolution 2 pads. "1066" you'll notice is 42 more than 1024, so 1066 is just a "Really Cool" in binary. freezer 7 pro... well... CPUs are hot nowadays so he bought an air conditioner to cool the room down. Quite sensible. rosewill case... hmmm must be one of those cases with alien eyes on it or something. I guess he'll pull the guts out of the e8500 and put them in there so it looks cool? 250 gb hd... ah. He also picked up 250 "Gnarly-Bro" HighDensity floppies. Must be to back up his save games and make "backup" copies for friends.
All other games I've ever played. That's a mighty big difference. And believe me, I've played a lot of games, many with good stories (I play lots of RPGs), but not one has had characters so human, I actually was moved by their plight, and felt something for them. I've been moved by a lot of stories, but in no other game have the writers got me to care about the people in the story on a personal level. That's the difference. Madness? This is opinion.
No, you just have poor taste. Most likely you have played very few games and have little if any experience with film and literature.
Agreed. He probably never played FF VII (either too young or not to his tastes).
I hate to bring out a cliche, but how many of us cried when Aeris (/Aerith) was killed half-way through the story?
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Actually, the problem is that most DEVICES don't support IPv6. The only thing the adoption of Vista (and also OS X which enables IPv6 by default) has done is increased the support for IPv6 on computers.
What about your router? The only SOHO router I know of that supports IPv6 out of the box is Apple's Airport Extreme. What about the Cable/DSL Modems, not to mention all the other Linksys, DLink, (Insert your brand) routers?
What difference does it make if most of the computers can use IPv6, if the infrastructure that connects them to the internet still doesn't/can't support IPv6?
Actually NAT isn't a horrible joke, its just the middle of the joke.
The opener goes: "How do you stretch IPv4 address space while you work out and transition to a solution?"
The middle is: "We use NAT of course."
The punch line goes: "Yeah, that might work and help things for a while, but when are we going to transition to IPv6?"
Only buy them through the Canadian Poker GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS Pharmacy.
Its cheaper.
Hmmm when I read it, I was thinking more along the lines of:
"Your Data and Resources will be catalogued, indexed, and assimilated into the Googleplex collective. Resistance can be found by clicking on this link."
Hmmmm and they call US "pirates"? I wonder if a little "Data Piracy on the High Seas" might change their tune?
On the other hand, a small private army could be employed to protect the barges, and they could probably work out a tethered tap into an unused transatlantic fiber strand (are there any?) tap it, and you've instantly got a high-speed connection to both sides of the Atlantic and instant redundancy if one side breaks. :)
Never happen.
Every brokerage house in the country is increasing their presence in "Automated Trading". The majority of these companies income is now made on small percentage point fluctuations brokered very fast. With the automated systems pulling in that much more money than the traditional ones, and with more algorithms being designed (and held as proprietary info), what would YOU do?
Ridiculous? Yes. Not going away? Also Yes.
Might as well vote to bring back the horse drawn carriage since the price of gas has risen so much lately.
and when you're trying to take over the world, there is no Julie, there is only Xul?
However it is starting to become the "norm" for EA (i.e. BioShock and Mass Effect).
Perhaps we should be referring to this not just as DRM, but as "That Crappy DRM EA keeps including in their games" ?
Quick! Make up the banners! "Save the Outliers!" "All Data Points Are Important!" "One for All, and All for Analysis!" :)
Nah.
They'll be back at "5 nines" by next week.
The trick is to either redefine what the term means (so they are actually referring to 9.9999% uptime), or the timeframe (we've been at "5 nines" for the whole year" - said Jan 1 2009), or both ("so, we use 1 day as a data point, then if we've been up for any part of that day, we're good... so we've always operated at '5 nines' reliability")
Peter Griffin: [after "Family Guy" returns to Fox with new episodes, after a few years off the air] Everybody, I got bad news. We've been canceled.
Lois Griffin: Oh, no! Peter, how could they do that?
Peter Griffin: Well, unfortunately, Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We've just got to accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows, like "Dark Angel", "Titus", "Undeclared", "Action", "That '80s Show", "Wonder Falls", "Fastlane", "Andy Richter Controls the Universe", "Skin", "Girls Club", "Cracking Up", "The Pitts", "Firefly", "Get Real", "Freaky Links", "Wanda at Large", "Costello", "The Lone Gunmen", "A Minute with Stan Hooper", "Normal, Ohio", "Pasadena", "Harsh Realm", "Keen Eddie", "The Street", "American Embassy", "Cedric the Entertainer", "The Tick", "Louie", and "Greg the Bunny".
Lois Griffin: Is there no hope?
Peter Griffin: Well, I suppose if all those shows go down the tubes, we might have a shot.
Well, I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't have found either of those orgs (IEEE or ACM) if it hadn't been for a professor who mentioned them when I went back to college to finish up my degree. This was after I was already working in the field and had been for almost 8 years. This probably isn't uncommon in a group that has a large contingent of "self taught" people.
I'm guessing that her view of "The U.S." was the coastal cities and nothing else. Sort of missing the whole middle of the country with wide open areas.
Kinda nice to know that us American's aren't the only ones to sometimes have a completely wrong view of the world. :)
Ah yes, the standards for the Next Generation of Cod are always important. I suggest an extra fin and maybe an extra eye or two (more elusive prey).
Jokes aside, implementing even a few of those things will usually improve the level of code written and its maintainability (the more the merrier though :) ).
Assuming I understood the original parent correctly, they are claiming that the Wireless transponder is supposed to be the "Foreign Key" to the table of information that is suppose to match what the cameras can see.
Personally I doubt anyone actually looks at any of the cameras unless and until there is a problem, and I find it highly unlikely that the system actually bothers to do any recognition (on the license plate or on the make/model of car).
All the info I've seen says that the core functionality is free, but that there will still be "premium content" users will have to pay for.
For instance, you'll be given a basic starter apartment for free, but be able to buy a bigger space (to hold more stuff, some free, some not), for a small fee.
Not a bad middle ground for the system, since it lets users have a fully useable system for free, but lets people who believe that the "flame stickers make it go faster" pay for that privilege (and it helps encourage third parties to make items for sale, or to pay for "display space"/ads in Home which helps pay for an otherwise free infrastructure).
Nah, Duke Nukem 3D is coming as an XBL download, DNF is still coming "When its done"
Nah, let him just keep repeating that tired old meme.
We'll keep enjoying the Ratchet & Clank Future and Resistance series, Drake's Fortune, Warhawk (psyched about the new expansion due out this week), Little Big Planet, God of War 3, or downloadable games like Super Startdust HD, Pixel Junk Monsters, etc. The lack of games from when the PS3 launched is a thing of the past. If he doesn't want to look at what's available, thats his problem. Heck, there are enough free demos he could download if he wanted to try out most of them.
Of course, there is also the Video download store now, an in game XMB, Trophies, and the DLNA compliant client so you can stream media in lots of different formats to it from Windows Linux or OSX.
Its not like Sony has closed the gap with the Live! and is getting ready to pass it or something.~
Hmmm I hadn't consider that. ... perhaps he was making sure it worked with a good long burn-in period ... say a 142 years or so?
Funny how that just keeps popping up ...
Yeah ... I remember the unarticulated ones.
Four pieces, if I'm remembering right.
A "feet" piece (one solid mass), a "torso" piece (again, one solid mass with bulges for arms and no hands), a yellow head (no face), and a hat or hair as appropriate.
I think my first Lego was a medi-vac helicopter with two attendants and a patient. The way you had them "carry" the stretcher was to clip the 2x12 stud board between the feet and torso piece on both attendants. :)
The Galaxy Explorer was probably the second set I remember getting. I wish LEGO would come out with "retro" sets of the old space line. I always wanted to build a massive moonbase, but now when I have the space for it, they don't have the parts. :( (where are the crater and landing pad tiles I always wanted to use?, Where are the blue, gray and white tiles I came to expect from my childhood? ... okay ... you can get off my lawn now ;) )
Allow me to try and explain ...
He said:
e8500 ... hmmm maybe its a new eMachine that he used as a base to build on? ... ah! he picked up "Four "Gnarly-Bro" Dance Dance Revolution 2 pads. "1066" you'll notice is 42 more than 1024, so 1066 is just a "Really Cool" in binary. ... well ... CPUs are hot nowadays so he bought an air conditioner to cool the room down. Quite sensible. ... hmmm must be one of those cases with alien eyes on it or something. I guess he'll pull the guts out of the e8500 and put them in there so it looks cool? ... ah. He also picked up 250 "Gnarly-Bro" HighDensity floppies. Must be to back up his save games and make "backup" copies for friends.
4gb ddr2 1066
freezer 7 pro
rosewill case
250 gb hd
Sounds like a neat gaming rig ...
Then again maybe it was l33t speak? ... or not ;)
Well ... if you look at the first answer he gave:
So, I'd guess he's here drumming up some brand awareness and trying to drive eyeballs to the site.
Agreed. He probably never played FF VII (either too young or not to his tastes).
I hate to bring out a cliche, but how many of us cried when Aeris (/Aerith) was killed half-way through the story?
Firefox is singled out, because all the others let you continue to the site anyway.
To get to a site in firefox you have to go through some convoluted steps to access the site.
This is after all, both an MS story, AND a Patent story.
lYou would actually expect them to innovate in a Patent Application, would you?
I mean, that just reeks of giving in to non-corporate expectations.