I wish my Gmail account was like that. Maybe you're new to Gmail. I get several spams in my inbox per week. I wish my Gmail account was like that. Maybe you only have geeky friends that don't forward your address to the nearest known spammer. I get several spams in my inbox every day. In plain english, even. With lovely "Hot pictures of paris hilton nude" and everything.
Perhaps this is because I have email forwarded to my gmail account from several other accounts. And those accounts are probably not in the same spam batches as all the gmail recipients. So maybe I'm really lucky and get the latest spam before the rest of you gmailers, even without paying for a subscription!
Yes yes, of course I do my duty and mark those 0-day mails as spam, even though I don't seem to get anything out of it myself...
> The last words said by mankind will be one of the following: "oops," "Hey, Watch This!," or "Oh SHIIIIII..."
Interesting signature... What you're saying is that the person responsible for the Earths destruction will be speaking english as primary language, hence not coming from China/Russia/Iraq, nor somewhere 41 light years away.
I am for text messaging - imagine a usable keyboard and a permanent (e.g. pay for traffic, not time) IP connection. Just chat away anywhere, anytime, without ever disturbing anyone. I'm sure it can be done, it's probably just more lucrative for telcos to lock people into voice communication.
That's what GPRS is for. You can even get qwerty keyboards for some phones, I just think they're way too bulky to actually use, as opposed to 'intelligent' dictionaries.
I know people (well, at least one) who use mobile always-on chatting as their primary form of communication, but maybe this is just a deprecated feature of the ancient European mobile networks?;)
The point of (real) p2p is that you don't need a central server with massive amounts of bandwidth! YOUR computer is part of the Kazaa database, at least when you're running it... The advertisement business is there to make money to pay the lawyers, and at least previously they had to supply some of the bandwidth to let users download the program. However, you're right. Their p2p protocol is probably quite interesting, because it works without central servers (like gnutella, just more advanced).
The Detonator drivers support TNT and up, Riva has it's own (very old) driver. I know, because I still have a GeForce1 and I think it continously performs admirably well compared to slightly older chips. The GeForce1 was a leap in architecture and performance. Riva128 was pretty neat in it's own time, once I found out about switching to 16bit desktop color depth in order to get hardware 3D acceleration:)
You're right, I can't imagine how dynamic length addressing would be implemented.
Besides, you will have a hard time fitting around 1000 microwave oven bells or light switches in 1 sq meter, which is what IPv6 provides:) 128 bit addresses will last until either we expand into space, or individual parts on a chip get their own global addresses!
You're on to something here, but the problems are not just content (receiver) control and charging. There are lots of technical problems as well, primarily scalability. During the last 10 years, several new protocols for use in IP multicast have appeared, trying to make up for some of these problems, but it's not really ready for widespread use yet.
The main problem is the amount of per-group state routers need to keep. Currently, a router needs to know about all multicast groups that are being sent through it, and where they should be forwarded to. If multicasting becomes more widespread, the amount of multicast groups will soar, and thereby the multicast state will exceed what current routers can handle.
Correct me if I'm wrong in something here... The scalability problem is partly taken care of with Rendez Vous points, but I'm not entirely sure about those. Basically, they are local control points for routers on a given network, so that some state is lifted from the routers.
All of this conflicts with the rule of always pulling functionality as far up the network layers as possible.
The point of all this is that IP multicast is not really fully researched yet, and I hope IPv6 deployment is delayed until the multicast problem has been properly addressed, so we can get the full functionality in one packet. I'd say at least 10 years.
Well, that certainly IS annoying when you get one of those. But if you get a phone that's less than - let's say 3 years old, chances are the phone will have a smart dictionary/typing system that will by default make first letters in sentences capitalized and the rest nice small regular letters. I think Nokia started this indispensable trend, but I believe any new phone has it by now.
Southwire is still only using superconducting cables in their own factories, ie. in a closed environment. The news is that now it's being used in the public distribution in Copenhagen.
The point is that until now, superconducting cables have only been used in laboratories. Or, if you really want to count Southwire in - in closed environments. Southwire only used the cables for some of their own factories.
The news is that now superconducting cables are being used in a public distribution system, and mr. John Doe (if he lives in Copenhagen) can feel the new technology on his own body... bad phrasing, but you know what I mean;-)
It's still only experimental, 30 meters is not very useful but public power is being run trough these cables. This will clear the way for real use of longer cables in the future.
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Perhaps this is because I have email forwarded to my gmail account from several other accounts. And those accounts are probably not in the same spam batches as all the gmail recipients. So maybe I'm really lucky and get the latest spam before the rest of you gmailers, even without paying for a subscription!
Yes yes, of course I do my duty and mark those 0-day mails as spam, even though I don't seem to get anything out of it myself...
> The last words said by mankind will be one of the following: "oops," "Hey, Watch This!," or "Oh SHIIIIII..."
Interesting signature... What you're saying is that the person responsible for the Earths destruction will be speaking english as primary language, hence not coming from China/Russia/Iraq, nor somewhere 41 light years away.
It doesn't even come in Dvorak layout! How am I supposed to keep up my 200 wpm typing speed on this?
;)
*ducks for cover*
Sorry, couldn't help it
You mean the 2300MP? What about noise? Heat => noise...
Then maybe that's why the article is duplicated 3 times on the page? Kindof purpose-defying, at least for the bandwidth!
Well, with a vote count like that, there's no reason for a recount - it's gotta be the right answer :)
I am for text messaging - imagine a usable keyboard and a permanent (e.g. pay for traffic, not time) IP connection. Just chat away anywhere, anytime, without ever disturbing anyone. I'm sure it can be done, it's probably just more lucrative for telcos to lock people into voice communication.
;)
That's what GPRS is for. You can even get qwerty keyboards for some phones, I just think they're way too bulky to actually use, as opposed to 'intelligent' dictionaries.
I know people (well, at least one) who use mobile always-on chatting as their primary form of communication, but maybe this is just a deprecated feature of the ancient European mobile networks?
The point of (real) p2p is that you don't need a central server with massive amounts of bandwidth! YOUR computer is part of the Kazaa database, at least when you're running it...
The advertisement business is there to make money to pay the lawyers, and at least previously they had to supply some of the bandwidth to let users download the program.
However, you're right. Their p2p protocol is probably quite interesting, because it works without central servers (like gnutella, just more advanced).
The Detonator drivers support TNT and up, Riva has it's own (very old) driver. I know, because I still have a GeForce1 and I think it continously performs admirably well compared to slightly older chips. The GeForce1 was a leap in architecture and performance. :)
Riva128 was pretty neat in it's own time, once I found out about switching to 16bit desktop color depth in order to get hardware 3D acceleration
You're right, I can't imagine how dynamic length addressing would be implemented.
:) 128 bit addresses will last until either we expand into space, or individual parts on a chip get their own global addresses!
Besides, you will have a hard time fitting around 1000 microwave oven bells or light switches in 1 sq meter, which is what IPv6 provides
You're on to something here, but the problems are not just content (receiver) control and charging. There are lots of technical problems as well, primarily scalability. During the last 10 years, several new protocols for use in IP multicast have appeared, trying to make up for some of these problems, but it's not really ready for widespread use yet.
The main problem is the amount of per-group state routers need to keep. Currently, a router needs to know about all multicast groups that are being sent through it, and where they should be forwarded to. If multicasting becomes more widespread, the amount of multicast groups will soar, and thereby the multicast state will exceed what current routers can handle.
Correct me if I'm wrong in something here... The scalability problem is partly taken care of with Rendez Vous points, but I'm not entirely sure about those. Basically, they are local control points for routers on a given network, so that some state is lifted from the routers.
All of this conflicts with the rule of always pulling functionality as far up the network layers as possible.
The point of all this is that IP multicast is not really fully researched yet, and I hope IPv6 deployment is delayed until the multicast problem has been properly addressed, so we can get the full functionality in one packet.
I'd say at least 10 years.
Well, that certainly IS annoying when you get one of those. But if you get a phone that's less than - let's say 3 years old, chances are the phone will have a smart dictionary/typing system that will by default make first letters in sentences capitalized and the rest nice small regular letters. I think Nokia started this indispensable trend, but I believe any new phone has it by now.
Southwire is still only using superconducting cables in their own factories, ie. in a closed environment. The news is that now it's being used in the public distribution in Copenhagen.
The point is that until now, superconducting cables have only been used in laboratories. Or, if you really want to count Southwire in - in closed environments. Southwire only used the cables for some of their own factories. The news is that now superconducting cables are being used in a public distribution system, and mr. John Doe (if he lives in Copenhagen) can feel the new technology on his own body... bad phrasing, but you know what I mean ;-)
It's still only experimental, 30 meters is not very useful but public power is being run trough these cables. This will clear the way for real use of longer cables in the future.