TBP advertise a whole bunch more addresses via BGP, which I'm sure they could start using pretty quickly, if they wanted: http://bgp.he.net/AS51040#_prefixes
Actually, IPv9 is called TUBA. No, really. And IPv7 is TP/IX. During the IP next generation discussions, Jon Postel allocated each a number. Vint surely knows this.
Every time this discussion comes up, people fail to see the significance of IPv4 running out. It's 2010, and folks still get confused.
The significance is this: There are massive growth regions in the world that will only be able to purchase IPv6 addresses within the next year or two. And if you aren't playing the IPv6 game, then you're shutting you and your customers off from all those various markets that will open up in years to come.
There's only so much can be squeezed out of IPv4. But regardless of how much can be squeezed out of the existing space, the regional registries are likely to run out of/24's they can allocate within a year. See for a guesstimate: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html That is, in 2012, much expansion in growth regions WILL be IPv6 only.
You're shooting yourself in the foot if you refuse to bring yourself up to date.
IPN is closely related to Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN), which has more potential applications than just interplanetary networking. There's a whole bunch of uses for this stuff that can include real-life sensor networks, healthcare scenarios, emergency situations, and periodic shipping of data to isolated communities. Many situations where you either don't have a network connection, or you can't guarantee a network connection, can make use of some of this stuff.
Even better, Scottish notes aren't legal tender in Scotland (no banknotes are considered legal tender in Scotland). There are other fun little rules, that allow the shop to refuse payment over certain amounts in certain denominations (for example, I seem to recall more than 35p in coppers could be refused). Of course, these are rules seldom exercised.
When I did bar work, my rule of thumb was that if the note said "pounds sterling" on it, then I took it. The most bizarre was the plastic Irish Northern Bank note. As far as I was concerned, it was money; if the bank didn't know what to do with it, then that was a problem beyond me.
Indeed, to take that a step further, many BSD coders actually license their code under a BSD license because it's more likely to be used by others. In a slightly less egocentric way (ie, the Zen state you mention), some release under a BSD license to encourage adoption of, for example, a standardised network transport protocol.
Regarding the "lashing" out at the customer service supervisor: I was trying to get her to help her own company out. The fact that she was not told anything about a new level of spam filtering nor had (she claims) a way to contact a manager on a weekend about a PR problem may be a standard problem for that level of supervisor, but I wanted to give her a way to be a hero internally and stop a PR problem from getting worse.
And while your intentions were no dount good, you probably came across as arrogant. Depending on the temperament of the staff member you were talking to at the call centre, you may have a note against your name to this effect, warning future call centre staff who take your calls.
There's a good chance that the supervisor you spoke to wasn't a supervisor at all. If she was, she doesn't have much more control over anything than the first line of defense did. As has been pointed out by others, the call centre was probably not run by Verizon.
Also, it's fair to say that lots of people taking these calls don't care for any advice you might like to offer them; they're doing what they've been told to do, and if what you're asking is outside their responsibilities/training, then it's not their problem. Period. There's normally too many incompentent middle-managers for anyone to feel compelled to pass this sort of advice up the chain of command in these sorts of call centres.
It's like a bootstrap mechanism. To learn to use the computer while you're using it is useful once you have some useful skills tied down. Without those skills though, hardcopy outwith the computer helping you gain those skills is entirely useful.
Personally, I tend to follow your approach, but it's sometimes nice to have one less thing cluttering up your screen, by marking a few useful pages in a book on your desk. I also can't stand reading large amounts of text (perhaps to be found in your PDFs) on-screen. I have to print select sections of those out.
That still holds. If you have but one TV which you do not use to watch TV, then you pay no fee.
They'll bug you about it, but you don't have to pay. I know a guy who had a TV but couldn't get a signal -- at all. The TV license folks would bug him every few months, but he'd always point out that it was actually impossible for him to watch TV, and they'd go away.
Your comment deserves to be marked as funny, rather than informative; I laughed out loud.
Having done a lot of bar work, it's surprising how much the customer does hold up the whole process of paying. The whole hunting for cash thing is irritating, but so is the downright stupid "I don't know what I want yet". Uh-huh...
What irritated me the most though were the customers who carefully placed their money on the bar in front of you, while you stand there with your hand out to receive said money. All too often I was tempted to place their change on the bar just as they did to me, to make my point crystal clear, but unfortunately never did.
Bill Hilf doesn't exactly seem to be one of the PR types surely responsible for the "Get The Facts" campaign you clearly loathe:
Bill Hilf Lead Program Manager, Platform Strategy
Bill Hilf is the Lead Program Manager for Microsoft's Platform Strategy Organization. Bill leads the Linux and Open Source Software technology group at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bill drove IBM's Linux technical strategy at a world-wide level for the Emerging and Competitive markets organization, in addition to his direct customer interaction as a senior I/T architect. Bill has been involved with Open Source Software (OSS) for over ten years, and is an IEEE Distinguished Visitor on the subject of OSS. Prior to joining IBM, Bill was the Sr. Director of Engineering for eToys, where he helped build one of the premiere ecommerce businesses on the Web.
Ongoing research is oft published, and in itself doesn't go against their 'academic principles' -- so long as the published work contributes in some way. Presumably the researchers in question simply hadn't planned on releasing anything on their work so soon, but had enough material to put together a reasonable and verifiable work-in-progress.
The work contributes because the rest of the scientific community can attempt to confirm this group's findings, and the debate on planetary status can begin. (That aside, I haven't read enough to know if the work was reviewed and published via normal channels.)
"Should they really have the right to keep the information secret until they've had the opportunity to make time-critical observations and gain all the information they require"
Slashdot Mirror
stween@islay:0:~$ host -t aaaa slashdot.org
slashdot.org has no AAAA record
Oh.
Virgin Media has blocked just the IP address currently exposed via DNS for thepiratebay.se, far as I can tell. (I haven't tested exhaustively.) https://plus.google.com/109104274582476853846/posts/4ZDXRpUt99J
TBP advertise a whole bunch more addresses via BGP, which I'm sure they could start using pretty quickly, if they wanted: http://bgp.he.net/AS51040#_prefixes
http://youshottheinvisibleswordsman.co.uk/2011/01/29/ipv4-5-6/
Actually, IPv9 is called TUBA. No, really. And IPv7 is TP/IX. During the IP next generation discussions, Jon Postel allocated each a number. Vint surely knows this.
Every time this discussion comes up, people fail to see the significance of IPv4 running out. It's 2010, and folks still get confused.
The significance is this: There are massive growth regions in the world that will only be able to purchase IPv6 addresses within the next year or two. And if you aren't playing the IPv6 game, then you're shutting you and your customers off from all those various markets that will open up in years to come.
There's only so much can be squeezed out of IPv4. But regardless of how much can be squeezed out of the existing space, the regional registries are likely to run out of /24's they can allocate within a year. See for a guesstimate: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html That is, in 2012, much expansion in growth regions WILL be IPv6 only.
You're shooting yourself in the foot if you refuse to bring yourself up to date.
The story doesn't make it clear.
"I was twice an hour at least, I had to translate English text to disastrous results."
http://translationparty.com/#6414445
Good call on the NC10. For Ubuntu information, here's the page with installation help you want: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NC10
My NC10 is running standard Ubuntu, and gets 5 hours battery life on standard usage. (7 to 8 hours when it's idling.)
IPN is closely related to Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN), which has more potential applications than just interplanetary networking. There's a whole bunch of uses for this stuff that can include real-life sensor networks, healthcare scenarios, emergency situations, and periodic shipping of data to isolated communities. Many situations where you either don't have a network connection, or you can't guarantee a network connection, can make use of some of this stuff.
Even better, Scottish notes aren't legal tender in Scotland (no banknotes are considered legal tender in Scotland). There are other fun little rules, that allow the shop to refuse payment over certain amounts in certain denominations (for example, I seem to recall more than 35p in coppers could be refused). Of course, these are rules seldom exercised.
When I did bar work, my rule of thumb was that if the note said "pounds sterling" on it, then I took it. The most bizarre was the plastic Irish Northern Bank note. As far as I was concerned, it was money; if the bank didn't know what to do with it, then that was a problem beyond me.
Flamebait? Sigh.
This is one of the most insightful posts I've ever read on Slashdot.
And if you're using Linux, since I did this just today, the following steps may prove useful:
(for each chapter 'n' you want:)
mplayer dvd://1 -chapter n-n -dumpaudio -dumpfile chaptern
Decode each chapter's audio to wav using a52dec:
a52dec -o wav chaptern > chaptern.wav
Then encode into whatever your preferred lossy format may be.
Indeed, to take that a step further, many BSD coders actually license their code under a BSD license because it's more likely to be used by others. In a slightly less egocentric way (ie, the Zen state you mention), some release under a BSD license to encourage adoption of, for example, a standardised network transport protocol.
Regarding the "lashing" out at the customer service supervisor: I was trying to get her to help her own company out. The fact that she was not told anything about a new level of spam filtering nor had (she claims) a way to contact a manager on a weekend about a PR problem may be a standard problem for that level of supervisor, but I wanted to give her a way to be a hero internally and stop a PR problem from getting worse.
And while your intentions were no dount good, you probably came across as arrogant. Depending on the temperament of the staff member you were talking to at the call centre, you may have a note against your name to this effect, warning future call centre staff who take your calls.
There's a good chance that the supervisor you spoke to wasn't a supervisor at all. If she was, she doesn't have much more control over anything than the first line of defense did. As has been pointed out by others, the call centre was probably not run by Verizon.
Also, it's fair to say that lots of people taking these calls don't care for any advice you might like to offer them; they're doing what they've been told to do, and if what you're asking is outside their responsibilities/training, then it's not their problem. Period. There's normally too many incompentent middle-managers for anyone to feel compelled to pass this sort of advice up the chain of command in these sorts of call centres.
Reminds me of the BBC News article "What's the point of a tie?".
Easiest to access? Sure. Right after all four corners. :-)
Wow. 10 minutes. You should come to the UK, we're much better at laterunning. In fact, quite often we like just to cancel trains.
My favourite announcements at stations are the ones where they announce that the train is on time. Oh yes.
It's like a bootstrap mechanism. To learn to use the computer while you're using it is useful once you have some useful skills tied down. Without those skills though, hardcopy outwith the computer helping you gain those skills is entirely useful.
Personally, I tend to follow your approach, but it's sometimes nice to have one less thing cluttering up your screen, by marking a few useful pages in a book on your desk. I also can't stand reading large amounts of text (perhaps to be found in your PDFs) on-screen. I have to print select sections of those out.
That still holds. If you have but one TV which you do not use to watch TV, then you pay no fee.
They'll bug you about it, but you don't have to pay. I know a guy who had a TV but couldn't get a signal -- at all. The TV license folks would bug him every few months, but he'd always point out that it was actually impossible for him to watch TV, and they'd go away.
Hanging on is the English way.
Your comment deserves to be marked as funny, rather than informative; I laughed out loud.
Having done a lot of bar work, it's surprising how much the customer does hold up the whole process of paying. The whole hunting for cash thing is irritating, but so is the downright stupid "I don't know what I want yet". Uh-huh...
What irritated me the most though were the customers who carefully placed their money on the bar in front of you, while you stand there with your hand out to receive said money. All too often I was tempted to place their change on the bar just as they did to me, to make my point crystal clear, but unfortunately never did.
The sex drive. Is that, like, a removable USB2.0 drive or something?
Bill Hilf doesn't exactly seem to be one of the PR types surely responsible for the "Get The Facts" campaign you clearly loathe:
Bill Hilf
Lead Program Manager, Platform Strategy
Bill Hilf is the Lead Program Manager for Microsoft's Platform Strategy Organization. Bill leads the Linux and Open Source Software technology group at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bill drove IBM's Linux technical strategy at a world-wide level for the Emerging and Competitive markets organization, in addition to his direct customer interaction as a senior I/T architect. Bill has been involved with Open Source Software (OSS) for over ten years, and is an IEEE Distinguished Visitor on the subject of OSS. Prior to joining IBM, Bill was the Sr. Director of Engineering for eToys, where he helped build one of the premiere ecommerce businesses on the Web.
Puh-lease, indeed.
Ongoing research is oft published, and in itself doesn't go against their 'academic principles' -- so long as the published work contributes in some way. Presumably the researchers in question simply hadn't planned on releasing anything on their work so soon, but had enough material to put together a reasonable and verifiable work-in-progress.
The work contributes because the rest of the scientific community can attempt to confirm this group's findings, and the debate on planetary status can begin. (That aside, I haven't read enough to know if the work was reviewed and published via normal channels.)
"Should they really have the right to keep the information secret until they've had the opportunity to make time-critical observations and gain all the information they require"
Well, yes.