I dumped Verizon over 5 years ago when they partnered with M$ for "myvzw". One day I went to log into the portal (which worked fine from a mobile phone so it didn't require too many html capabilities) and it said I was on an incompatible browser and needed to upgrade. The problem was that I was on a SPARC. I'd been using a SPARC with Netscape for years with no trouble and then suddenly they said I needed exploder. AT&T has better phones anyway.
I recently dumped Netflix because they require Silverlight to view movies on-line. It's just a coincidence that the CEO of Netflix sits on the M$ board of directors...
People who say Microsoft has changed its ways and is no longer anti-competitive just aren't looking in the right places.
Yes indeed. GM's cars cost much more than they should. If you consider the inferior quality, they should cost LESS than the competition instead of more. GM should by all rights have gone into bankruptcy. Their union contracts have strangled their ability to compete in a fair market. Instead of BK, they are now largely owned by the US Government! When there are no consequences to failure, poor management will continue. Expect more bad things from GM in the future.
Er... The CRU folks DESTROYED the raw data and released 'processed' data which they 'adjusted' based upon some shadowy assertion that the measurements were wrong. How many credible scientists do you know who destroy their raw data?
I don't get your point. OPEC has no authority over me or my 'carbon footprint'. They do have the ability to (attempt to) control oil market prices. Not all of the member nations abide by the limits so the controls aren't always effective.
Just so you know, I'm all for alternative energy (I have a solar plant on my roof). And no, I did not accept the state subsidy on my solar plant (mainly because they insisted that it be 'grid tied').
I will continue to use petroleum fuel products as long as they are economical.
Put a bacterial culture in a petri dish and it will multiply until it exceeds the resources available to sustain it. That is the nature of life. Humans have been developing new solutions to the problems associated with population growth for decades. Still the growth continues.
No policy change will ever succeed if it requires the cooperation of everyone on the planet. There will always be some 'cheaters' who will pollute because of the obvious economic advantages (to them).
So we basically have two choices:
1) Impose some centralized authority to control our growth and resource consumption.
2) Leave things alone and allow people the freedoms they currently enjoy.
I prefer number 2. The greatest country in the world (the USA) became great because of those freedoms. Let's leave things alone until we are CERTAIN that there is a problem. Once we know for certain that there is a problem, then we need to explore solutions and not rush ahead with some plan which has no evidence to support its effectiveness.
We want our oil and we want it cheap. But watch out when a drunken ship captain plows his oil laden tanker into some harbor somewhere. Who do we blame? Of course we blame Exxon because they have 'deep pockets'. But were they really to blame? They had policies prohibiting drunk driving and would never knowingly have caused such a disaster.
We (humans) did far worse to the environment in the past. The difference is that today environmentalism is the new religion. The (man made) global warming cult is not much different than any other religion. They've already made up their minds that man is bad and we are 'destroying the beautiful earth'. They promote 'scientific' data which reinforces their belief and scorn anyone who dares to question their opinions. Any true scientist knows that there just isn't enough information to conclusively prove (or even come close to proving) that man is responsible for any change in global temperatures. The cultists have recently adopted the 'climate change' moniker because of the recent (10 year) cooling trend. 35 years ago it was going to be a man-made ice-age (due to all of the pollution blocking the sunlight). How do we know they're right THIS time? Yes, global temperatures go up and down. Should we be surprised? We've been trying to predict the weather for centuries without much success. It is not something that is within our control (yet).
Let's say the global warming wackos get what they want and our governments impose 'carbon taxes' on the people. This will have no direct effect on reducing any carbon emissions; we'll just have to pay more to maintain our standard of living. Where will the money to the government go? They'll spend it on things like 'universal health care' and the like. Which country has the finest medical facilities and staff in the world? Why would we want to fuck it up by allowing even MORE government control?
Mod me down and call me a right-wing wacko if you like. The United States became the superpower it is due to limited governmental powers over people and industry. The US government (Congress specifically) has begun passing legislation that exceeds their constitutional authority and it must stop. The US had its ecological movement 40 years ago and is a relatively clean place these days. Yes, accidents do happen but the earth is a pretty resilient thing.
But Al doesn't mind this scandal, he already got his Nobel prize and millions of dollars for making a doomsday film about a non-existent threat to humanity.
We've been 'about to run out' of IPV4 addresses for over 10 years. Somehow the Internet continues to survive and it's just as easy now to get a static block as it was 15 years ago. IPV6 is interesting but it is not mainstream and It will not become so in the near future. I posted this comment six months ago and it was modded troll. If you look at my followup justifications here you will see that there is a legitimate technical basis for my position.
If you want a world routable IPV6 address on Verizon's network, just set up a tunnel and don't depend upon them for your IPV6 routing. I used to hate everything about Verizon. They never seemed to get anything right; and when they did, it would usually break shortly thereafter. I've changed my opinion since I've had FiOS installed. It has been reliable and fast (and I still have a tunnel so I don't depend upon them for routing).
He also invented the polyphase AC motor (which powers pretty much the whole world) and the florescent light. Tesla is #1 on my list of people I would like to have met. It's really a shame that he had no business sense. Edison set us back years pushing his DC power system and claiming that Tesla's AC system was dangerous. Edison was an idiot and an asshole. Tesla was a true genius.
20 years or so ago Nova did an episode called "Last journey of a genius". That show describes where the "tuva" reference in the microsoft URL comes from. Feynman had planned a trip there but succumbed to cancer before he made it.
You can buy a 16GB microSDHC which weighs 0.05oz (1.4g). You would need 62,500 of them to make a petabyte. That comes to a total of just 87.5kg. Of course this does not include the interface needed to access them.
The cost of the power produced from a space-based generating station could NEVER compete with ground based power sources.
Oil is far cheaper than solar. You get about 40% increase in power production by being in orbit. Oil will still be cheaper. What does it cost to put you there? What does it cost to operate the satellite(s)? How long does the system last?
This is one of the stupidest ideas (economically speaking) that I've ever seen.
From a geek point of view, it's a really cool idea though.
Netscape joined the US DOJ anti-trust suit against Microsoft. I said in my parent post that I didn't want to go into it. Groklaw.net has a nice archive of the proceedings.
This story is so familiar that it's scary. Bill Gates bought DOS from some guy calling himself Seattle Computer Company. The guy basically took the disassembled CP/M assembly source code and cross-assembled it for the 8086 architecture. Admittedly he changed some subtle things like CALL 5 to INT 5 but on the whole, it was a clear rip off. MS turned around and licensed DOS to IBM at a nice profit. Digital Research did sue MS and there was a settlement but the history of both companies shows that no compensation could possibly correct the injustice here.
FYI there's a pattern to this sort of behavior from Gates; Years before, he lifted the "Tiny Basic" source code from a user's group magazine and sold it to Tandy (as in Radio Shack) for their computers.
I won't go into other details of their behavior like what happened with OS/2, Stac, DR-DOS, Netscape, but Microsoft has a pattern of stealing other people's work.
I think that you would find, that at any data rate; say 100Gbps, it only takes 1.6ns for a complete (20 octet) IPV4 header to be digested. That's half as long as the 3.2ns it takes to digest a complete (40 octet) IPV6 header. The entire header must be digested in order to determine the route for the packet because the destination address is last. These are the theoretical best times that any hardware could achieve. That's double the one-way latency and quadruple the round trip latency. Many applications will degrade with the increased latency.
Another drawback is the added 20 bytes per IP frame. The maximum ethernet frame length is 1500 and that includes all the overhead. If the overhead consumes 20 more bytes, then your usable data-per-frame goes down by almost 3 percent.
For the above reasons, IPV4 is better and should not be abandoned until necessary.
Whether your routers/switches are "store and forward" or "cut over", there will be additional latency and significantly more overhead involved in routing IPV6 traffic. If the entire net were converted to IPV6 today, it would melt. Fortunately people will likely continue to use IPV4 for a long time and the IPV6 traffic will grow slowly enough that router technology will improve as necessary.
The issue was about users getting a POS that wouldn't give them the minimum acceptable user experience. It has been proven that Microsoft lowered their standards after caving into hardware vendors who wanted to dump their inventory. This was deceptive to the consumers who had been informed of Microsoft's assurances about "Vista Ready" and as a result they spent their money on something that was less useful than they expected.
An almost identical scenario occurred during the USB 1.0 to USB 2.0 transition. The USB consortium (HP, Compaq, Toshiba, etc.) decided to re-number the specs so USB 1.1 could be called USB 2.0 (full speed). USB 2.0 got renamed to "high speed". Everybody who was waiting to buy hardware that supported USB 2.0 ran out and bought it even though it still only ran at 11 megabits.
This judge is either brain dead or corrupt.
I started with WinCE (on a Casiopia) and stayed through 2 revisions despite the crashes, slowness, and rapid battery drain. I switched to a Palm III (clone actually - TRG Pro) and have had 3 Palm devices since then (currently a Centro). I prefer Palm's calendar and contact database to the alternatives. My Palm currently has about nine thousand contacts in the database.
Am I going to be able to use the WebOS when there's no wireless data connectivity? I don't think so. Can Palm ensure the security of my data while using WebOS? I don't think so.
What happened to the rumored port of PalmOS to Linux? I've been waiting for that for 3 years now.
Since they are abandoning the platform, is it for sale? Are they going to open source it? I would not like to see it die.
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I dumped Verizon over 5 years ago when they partnered with M$ for "myvzw". One day I went to log into the portal (which worked fine from a mobile phone so it didn't require too many html capabilities) and it said I was on an incompatible browser and needed to upgrade. The problem was that I was on a SPARC. I'd been using a SPARC with Netscape for years with no trouble and then suddenly they said I needed exploder. AT&T has better phones anyway. I recently dumped Netflix because they require Silverlight to view movies on-line. It's just a coincidence that the CEO of Netflix sits on the M$ board of directors... People who say Microsoft has changed its ways and is no longer anti-competitive just aren't looking in the right places.
Yes indeed. GM's cars cost much more than they should. If you consider the inferior quality, they should cost LESS than the competition instead of more. GM should by all rights have gone into bankruptcy. Their union contracts have strangled their ability to compete in a fair market. Instead of BK, they are now largely owned by the US Government! When there are no consequences to failure, poor management will continue. Expect more bad things from GM in the future.
Er... The CRU folks DESTROYED the raw data and released 'processed' data which they 'adjusted' based upon some shadowy assertion that the measurements were wrong. How many credible scientists do you know who destroy their raw data?
Just so you know, I'm all for alternative energy (I have a solar plant on my roof). And no, I did not accept the state subsidy on my solar plant (mainly because they insisted that it be 'grid tied').
I will continue to use petroleum fuel products as long as they are economical.
No policy change will ever succeed if it requires the cooperation of everyone on the planet. There will always be some 'cheaters' who will pollute because of the obvious economic advantages (to them).
So we basically have two choices: 1) Impose some centralized authority to control our growth and resource consumption. 2) Leave things alone and allow people the freedoms they currently enjoy.
I prefer number 2. The greatest country in the world (the USA) became great because of those freedoms. Let's leave things alone until we are CERTAIN that there is a problem. Once we know for certain that there is a problem, then we need to explore solutions and not rush ahead with some plan which has no evidence to support its effectiveness.
Make sense?
We (humans) did far worse to the environment in the past. The difference is that today environmentalism is the new religion. The (man made) global warming cult is not much different than any other religion. They've already made up their minds that man is bad and we are 'destroying the beautiful earth'. They promote 'scientific' data which reinforces their belief and scorn anyone who dares to question their opinions. Any true scientist knows that there just isn't enough information to conclusively prove (or even come close to proving) that man is responsible for any change in global temperatures. The cultists have recently adopted the 'climate change' moniker because of the recent (10 year) cooling trend. 35 years ago it was going to be a man-made ice-age (due to all of the pollution blocking the sunlight). How do we know they're right THIS time? Yes, global temperatures go up and down. Should we be surprised? We've been trying to predict the weather for centuries without much success. It is not something that is within our control (yet).
Let's say the global warming wackos get what they want and our governments impose 'carbon taxes' on the people. This will have no direct effect on reducing any carbon emissions; we'll just have to pay more to maintain our standard of living. Where will the money to the government go? They'll spend it on things like 'universal health care' and the like. Which country has the finest medical facilities and staff in the world? Why would we want to fuck it up by allowing even MORE government control?
Mod me down and call me a right-wing wacko if you like. The United States became the superpower it is due to limited governmental powers over people and industry. The US government (Congress specifically) has begun passing legislation that exceeds their constitutional authority and it must stop. The US had its ecological movement 40 years ago and is a relatively clean place these days. Yes, accidents do happen but the earth is a pretty resilient thing.
But Al doesn't mind this scandal, he already got his Nobel prize and millions of dollars for making a doomsday film about a non-existent threat to humanity.
If you want a world routable IPV6 address on Verizon's network, just set up a tunnel and don't depend upon them for your IPV6 routing. I used to hate everything about Verizon. They never seemed to get anything right; and when they did, it would usually break shortly thereafter. I've changed my opinion since I've had FiOS installed. It has been reliable and fast (and I still have a tunnel so I don't depend upon them for routing).
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He also invented the polyphase AC motor (which powers pretty much the whole world) and the florescent light. Tesla is #1 on my list of people I would like to have met. It's really a shame that he had no business sense. Edison set us back years pushing his DC power system and claiming that Tesla's AC system was dangerous. Edison was an idiot and an asshole. Tesla was a true genius.
Maybe you needed a new muffler bearing? Or perhaps some more blinker fluid? A good source of these hard-to-find products is KaleCoAuto.
See my previous post here.
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You work for Microsoft don't you Ben?
You can buy a 16GB microSDHC which weighs 0.05oz (1.4g). You would need 62,500 of them to make a petabyte. That comes to a total of just 87.5kg. Of course this does not include the interface needed to access them.
Get something like this and you can be wired and wireless at the same time.
The cost of the power produced from a space-based generating station could NEVER compete with ground based power sources. Oil is far cheaper than solar. You get about 40% increase in power production by being in orbit. Oil will still be cheaper. What does it cost to put you there? What does it cost to operate the satellite(s)? How long does the system last? This is one of the stupidest ideas (economically speaking) that I've ever seen. From a geek point of view, it's a really cool idea though.
Netscape joined the US DOJ anti-trust suit against Microsoft. I said in my parent post that I didn't want to go into it. Groklaw.net has a nice archive of the proceedings.
FYI there's a pattern to this sort of behavior from Gates; Years before, he lifted the "Tiny Basic" source code from a user's group magazine and sold it to Tandy (as in Radio Shack) for their computers.
I won't go into other details of their behavior like what happened with OS/2, Stac, DR-DOS, Netscape, but Microsoft has a pattern of stealing other people's work.
How long will it be before they start selling "placement" services? Mozilla is non-profit but they could use the money to fund development.
See my other reply in this thread.
Another drawback is the added 20 bytes per IP frame. The maximum ethernet frame length is 1500 and that includes all the overhead. If the overhead consumes 20 more bytes, then your usable data-per-frame goes down by almost 3 percent. For the above reasons, IPV4 is better and should not be abandoned until necessary.
Whether your routers/switches are "store and forward" or "cut over", there will be additional latency and significantly more overhead involved in routing IPV6 traffic. If the entire net were converted to IPV6 today, it would melt. Fortunately people will likely continue to use IPV4 for a long time and the IPV6 traffic will grow slowly enough that router technology will improve as necessary.
The issue was about users getting a POS that wouldn't give them the minimum acceptable user experience. It has been proven that Microsoft lowered their standards after caving into hardware vendors who wanted to dump their inventory. This was deceptive to the consumers who had been informed of Microsoft's assurances about "Vista Ready" and as a result they spent their money on something that was less useful than they expected. An almost identical scenario occurred during the USB 1.0 to USB 2.0 transition. The USB consortium (HP, Compaq, Toshiba, etc.) decided to re-number the specs so USB 1.1 could be called USB 2.0 (full speed). USB 2.0 got renamed to "high speed". Everybody who was waiting to buy hardware that supported USB 2.0 ran out and bought it even though it still only ran at 11 megabits. This judge is either brain dead or corrupt.
Just so you know who they are; Vodafone is the parent company of Verizon Wireless here in the USA.
I started with WinCE (on a Casiopia) and stayed through 2 revisions despite the crashes, slowness, and rapid battery drain. I switched to a Palm III (clone actually - TRG Pro) and have had 3 Palm devices since then (currently a Centro). I prefer Palm's calendar and contact database to the alternatives. My Palm currently has about nine thousand contacts in the database. Am I going to be able to use the WebOS when there's no wireless data connectivity? I don't think so. Can Palm ensure the security of my data while using WebOS? I don't think so. What happened to the rumored port of PalmOS to Linux? I've been waiting for that for 3 years now. Since they are abandoning the platform, is it for sale? Are they going to open source it? I would not like to see it die.