For various reasons, I ended up taking an IQ test a while back. The number of unobviously "most correct" answers almost drove me nuts. For a definition of "IQ" meaning "comes up with the same answer as the test author because of similar thought processes", it was great. For "IQ" meaning "able to infer patterns in the world around themselves", it sucked.
If that was the case, Microsoft and most other large companies would be out of business by now.
I disagree. I'm in no way a Microsoft fan, but their business plan is to try to provide products that their customers will want to buy. Sony's seems to be to punish their customers of one division for not also being sufficiently good customers of another division.
Yep, it has a WAN port. And yes, it can do IPv6 routing. Using Airport Utility v5, you can set it up as an IPv6 host (in case you wanted to use it for printer or disk sharing), a router (if you have native IPv6 from your ISP), or a tunnel (automatically with 6to4, or manually if you use a tunnel broker like HE). I was commenting on the OP's terminology, like he was implicating that if it didn't have a modem then it was some sort of a switch.
I have two 54G's: one is my house NAT/firewall/router, and the other runs in bridged mode to provide WiFi to the opposite end of the house. They're great little units! But the lure of the Airport Extreme with it's simultaneous b/g/n support and generally very nice specs was too strong to pass up.
IPv4 never has to go away. It can be used forever in internal networks.
Exactly this. I remember routing IPX over IPv4 in the 90s so we could play Quake at LAN parties. IPv4 won't go away for a long, long time. It doesn't need to. That doesn't mean we can't start using something better in the mean time.
Turns out Airport is not a router, but a sort of wireless switch (no modem).
Your terminology is not quite standard.
So this is probably another speed optimization as packets are 96bit smaller and your home network probably isn't filled with more than 4294967296 devices.
My comparatively ancient and underpowered WRT54G manages IPv6 just fine.
But more to the point, the Airport Extreme itself is perfectly capable of routing IPv6, so your point is moot. It's just that IPv6 support is no longer included in the configuration utility.
But Gosling et al wrote Java-the-language in basically the same way that English was "written": by picking syntax, grammar, and words from pre-existing languages and combining them into something that looks an awful lot like each of its predecessors. Java-the-VM, sure - that's copyrightable. Even the language documentation is certainly copyrightable. But the language itself? That's just lunacy.
Then I'm going to copyright English. I didn't write it, sure, but neither is Java a unique expression of syntax, concepts, grammar, or anything else. If Ellison gets Java, I get English.
Just because it's broadcast over the public airwaves does not make the broadcast public domain.
It doesn't make the contents public domain, but why isn't the broadcasted signal itself? For a thought experiment, suppose Aereo was able to limit its transmissions to customers who would be able to receive the broadcast OTA for free. Further suppose that Internet access was perfectly ubiquitous among those viewers, and Aereo provided such incredible service that they achieved 100% market share such that not a single viewer consumed the OTA signal anymore. The broadcasters realize that maintaining an antenna is incredibly expensive and utterly redundant, so they shut down their transmitters.
In this scenario, the content generators have exactly the same viewership as before, but minus the costs of maintaining expensive broadcast equipment. Aereo is making lots of money from subscriptions. Viewers have the benefit of receiving the content in a form most convenient to them. Who loses here? What harm has Aereo done to the content producers? If we can mostly agree on "none", then where is the line between that hypothetical scenario and what Aereo's doing now where harm starts to be done?
Santorum.com was registered nearly 11 years ago. You're full of crap if you think that the stain on his name can be wiped out in a single spurt. The seminal example of search bombing coming out in a single wash is a little hard to swallow.
Mmmm-hmm. And you always do this when making new friends? Trying to meet women/men? Applying for jobs? You enumerate your bad points and describe how they could become liabilities for the other party? I bet you do.
As fun (and often easy) as it is to bash on marketing, that's not been my first hand experience. Marketing departments I've dealt with have been all about presenting a product in its most favorable light, such as emphasizing its positive aspects and describing why the shortcomings aren't very important. That's not lying, per se. It's putting your best foot forward.
I really do not see a difference between best buy and apple stores. The employess all suck. They all want to help me, but they don't realize that I've done all of the research before stepping in the store.
You must have uniquely awful Apple stores near you. The ones I've been in have been refuges of technical competence, where the salespeople generally know exactly where the item I'm looking for is stocked and what the differences are between the variants. I don't doubt that you've had a different experience, but that would run entirely counter to what I've seen.
But what about when I want to go visit my sister (83 miles one direction) for an evening? How about when we go see the in-laws (298 miles one way) every few months?
I'm fortunate enough to live in a country where you can rent vehicles for a few hours to a few days. This way, you can keep one vehicle that handles your regular needs, yet still have access to other specialty transports as demands arise.
I lived in a small city where it seemed like 90% of men drove pickups, but you'd never see them hauling anything around.
Me: Why do you have that?
Friend: In case I need to move something.
Me: But the local home store rents pickups for $15 an hour if you ever want to haul a couch.
Friend: Yeah, but I don't want to have to pay extra when I need to do that.
Me: But your truck gets 10mpg. If you had a car that got 25mpg, after every 60 miles of driving you'd have saved enough money to rent a truck for an hour.
Friend: But I need a truck.
Since that seems to be the thing Best Buy makes money off of, why not sell only the warranties that they try to weasel out of?
Because I'd hope that Square Trade would mop the floor with them. Story time:
I bought an original black-and-white Nook two years ago. Since they were newish at the time and some people had problems with the plastic bezel cracking, I bought a 3rd-party warranty from SquareTrade for maybe $20. Last month, I realized that my Nook's stuck pixel that I'd hoped would unstick itself was actually a crack on the screen. I wrote SquareTrade and told them that I'd somehow managed to break my Nook. They sent me a pre-paid shipping slip to mail it back to them, and last week I got a check for a 100% refund of the original purchase price. I am never buying a retailer's extended warranty again.
Seems like a feature for apps to be able to decide which transport to choose, so high bandwidth apps can decide to not do high bandwidth things when they are on the expensive (or slower) transport.
Feature, maybe, but that would be a horrible implementation. I'm not a mobile programmer, but I could see the value in having an API call like open(remotehost,port,IS_LARGE_XFR). Then the OS can either pick from the best available option, or return a failure message if no satisfactory transports were online. Why make the programmer have to decide?
What are you doing in your life to warrant such a burden?
My dad was an insurance salesman, and a lot of his older clients would ask him to come to their house to collect their premiums and submit it for them. He'd drive out into the countryside to their house, pick up a few thousand dollars in cash, write a receipt, and head back to town to make their payment. He sometimes carry a gun during those trips (and only then).
Note: this was in the mid '80s and that kind of high-touch customer service was relatively common where we lived. I'm sure he wasn't the only salesman driving around rural area with a pistol and lots of cash.
But Firing someone because it's an issue is a bit absurd and possibly illegal.
Unlikely. In an at-will state (of which there are many), you can be fired or quit at any time for all but a short list of protected reasons.
but firing someone because they could not get to work during an emergency is ridiculous.
I'd have to disagree. If "able to get to work quickly during an emergency" is part of your job description, then that might be a reasonable issue.
It sounds like more of a chronic understaffing problem, which I've heard is an issue in the medical professions.
Regardless of what I said above, I'm sure that was a huge part of it. I'll never understand the logic whereby it's cheaper and better to pay two people to work 60 hours each (with overtime) than three people to work 40 each.
I'm a n-th (n > 7 or so) generation American of European ancestry. I had an interview with, ahem, a major search company. In one of the sessions, I estimated a short distance in meters. The shocked interviewer flipped quickly through my resume and hiring notes:
Him: Wait, are you an American?
Me, very surprised: Ummm, yeah... does that matter?
Him: It's just that you used the Metric system.
Me: I minored in physics.
Him: Oh.... [scribbling]
I don't think my citizenship status affected the eventual hiring decision, but that really caught me off guard. I wondered how that same question would've felt if I wasn't born and raised here.
"How fast can you get to work from your place at both wee hours of the morning as well as rush hour?" The place graded people on a tier system -- people who were lower tiers were people who were not in the center of town or had to commute through a main, overcrowded highway.
In fairness, there are a lot of jobs where that could matter, particularly in critical services (nurse, policeman, even sysadmin). If something goes bad at 3AM, or your replacement catches the stomach flu and the nature of the job requires someone to be on site at all times, will you be able to do it? I just moved away from a state with very bad winters, and I knew a very good, very qualified nurse who got fired when she couldn't drive in during a winter storm warning. People who lived in town were able to make it through the plowed streets. People who lived in the rural bedroom communities couldn't. Patients don't stop getting sick just because one person can't make their shift.
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In multiple choice questions, the "most correct" answer is the right one.
What's the next number in the series [2, 3, 5, 8]?
Of those, which is objectively "most correct"?
For various reasons, I ended up taking an IQ test a while back. The number of unobviously "most correct" answers almost drove me nuts. For a definition of "IQ" meaning "comes up with the same answer as the test author because of similar thought processes", it was great. For "IQ" meaning "able to infer patterns in the world around themselves", it sucked.
If that was the case, Microsoft and most other large companies would be out of business by now.
I disagree. I'm in no way a Microsoft fan, but their business plan is to try to provide products that their customers will want to buy. Sony's seems to be to punish their customers of one division for not also being sufficiently good customers of another division.
Yep, it has a WAN port. And yes, it can do IPv6 routing. Using Airport Utility v5, you can set it up as an IPv6 host (in case you wanted to use it for printer or disk sharing), a router (if you have native IPv6 from your ISP), or a tunnel (automatically with 6to4, or manually if you use a tunnel broker like HE). I was commenting on the OP's terminology, like he was implicating that if it didn't have a modem then it was some sort of a switch.
I have two 54G's: one is my house NAT/firewall/router, and the other runs in bridged mode to provide WiFi to the opposite end of the house. They're great little units! But the lure of the Airport Extreme with it's simultaneous b/g/n support and generally very nice specs was too strong to pass up.
IPv4 never has to go away. It can be used forever in internal networks.
Exactly this. I remember routing IPX over IPv4 in the 90s so we could play Quake at LAN parties. IPv4 won't go away for a long, long time. It doesn't need to. That doesn't mean we can't start using something better in the mean time.
Don't know why they header doesn't specify the address in the same way that utf8 specifies numbers.
Because with fixed-length address fields, I can implement routing with NAND gates.
"OK, Mom, now click the 'Block ICMP' checkbox. Yep, with the left mouse button. Great! All set."
Turns out Airport is not a router, but a sort of wireless switch (no modem).
Your terminology is not quite standard.
So this is probably another speed optimization as packets are 96bit smaller and your home network probably isn't filled with more than 4294967296 devices.
My comparatively ancient and underpowered WRT54G manages IPv6 just fine.
But more to the point, the Airport Extreme itself is perfectly capable of routing IPv6, so your point is moot. It's just that IPv6 support is no longer included in the configuration utility.
But Gosling et al wrote Java-the-language in basically the same way that English was "written": by picking syntax, grammar, and words from pre-existing languages and combining them into something that looks an awful lot like each of its predecessors. Java-the-VM, sure - that's copyrightable. Even the language documentation is certainly copyrightable. But the language itself? That's just lunacy.
Then I'm going to copyright English. I didn't write it, sure, but neither is Java a unique expression of syntax, concepts, grammar, or anything else. If Ellison gets Java, I get English.
Just because it's broadcast over the public airwaves does not make the broadcast public domain.
It doesn't make the contents public domain, but why isn't the broadcasted signal itself? For a thought experiment, suppose Aereo was able to limit its transmissions to customers who would be able to receive the broadcast OTA for free. Further suppose that Internet access was perfectly ubiquitous among those viewers, and Aereo provided such incredible service that they achieved 100% market share such that not a single viewer consumed the OTA signal anymore. The broadcasters realize that maintaining an antenna is incredibly expensive and utterly redundant, so they shut down their transmitters.
In this scenario, the content generators have exactly the same viewership as before, but minus the costs of maintaining expensive broadcast equipment. Aereo is making lots of money from subscriptions. Viewers have the benefit of receiving the content in a form most convenient to them. Who loses here? What harm has Aereo done to the content producers? If we can mostly agree on "none", then where is the line between that hypothetical scenario and what Aereo's doing now where harm starts to be done?
Santorum.com was registered nearly 11 years ago. You're full of crap if you think that the stain on his name can be wiped out in a single spurt. The seminal example of search bombing coming out in a single wash is a little hard to swallow.
I LOL'ed.
"Santorum Wiped Out"
"Santorum Expelled"
"Santorum Voided"
"Santorum Discharged"
"Santorum Creamed"
Mmmm-hmm. And you always do this when making new friends? Trying to meet women/men? Applying for jobs? You enumerate your bad points and describe how they could become liabilities for the other party? I bet you do.
No, that's the very definition of "marketing".
As fun (and often easy) as it is to bash on marketing, that's not been my first hand experience. Marketing departments I've dealt with have been all about presenting a product in its most favorable light, such as emphasizing its positive aspects and describing why the shortcomings aren't very important. That's not lying, per se. It's putting your best foot forward.
I really do not see a difference between best buy and apple stores. The employess all suck. They all want to help me, but they don't realize that I've done all of the research before stepping in the store.
You must have uniquely awful Apple stores near you. The ones I've been in have been refuges of technical competence, where the salespeople generally know exactly where the item I'm looking for is stocked and what the differences are between the variants. I don't doubt that you've had a different experience, but that would run entirely counter to what I've seen.
But what about when I want to go visit my sister (83 miles one direction) for an evening? How about when we go see the in-laws (298 miles one way) every few months?
I'm fortunate enough to live in a country where you can rent vehicles for a few hours to a few days. This way, you can keep one vehicle that handles your regular needs, yet still have access to other specialty transports as demands arise.
I lived in a small city where it seemed like 90% of men drove pickups, but you'd never see them hauling anything around.
Me: Why do you have that?
Friend: In case I need to move something.
Me: But the local home store rents pickups for $15 an hour if you ever want to haul a couch.
Friend: Yeah, but I don't want to have to pay extra when I need to do that.
Me: But your truck gets 10mpg. If you had a car that got 25mpg, after every 60 miles of driving you'd have saved enough money to rent a truck for an hour.
Friend: But I need a truck.
When I wrote about pragmatism I was thinking of this problem where a modification to glibc's malloc() implementation broke the Adobe flash player.
That's OK. It's dead anyway.
Best Buy needs to drop their customer as the enemy mentality and learned to embrace the customer instead of alienating them on a routine basis.
Amazon's never asked to check my bag on my way out the door, then gotten bitchy when I told them to screw themselves.
Since that seems to be the thing Best Buy makes money off of, why not sell only the warranties that they try to weasel out of?
Because I'd hope that Square Trade would mop the floor with them. Story time:
I bought an original black-and-white Nook two years ago. Since they were newish at the time and some people had problems with the plastic bezel cracking, I bought a 3rd-party warranty from SquareTrade for maybe $20. Last month, I realized that my Nook's stuck pixel that I'd hoped would unstick itself was actually a crack on the screen. I wrote SquareTrade and told them that I'd somehow managed to break my Nook. They sent me a pre-paid shipping slip to mail it back to them, and last week I got a check for a 100% refund of the original purchase price. I am never buying a retailer's extended warranty again.
Seems like a feature for apps to be able to decide which transport to choose, so high bandwidth apps can decide to not do high bandwidth things when they are on the expensive (or slower) transport.
Feature, maybe, but that would be a horrible implementation. I'm not a mobile programmer, but I could see the value in having an API call like open(remotehost,port,IS_LARGE_XFR). Then the OS can either pick from the best available option, or return a failure message if no satisfactory transports were online. Why make the programmer have to decide?
What are you doing in your life to warrant such a burden?
My dad was an insurance salesman, and a lot of his older clients would ask him to come to their house to collect their premiums and submit it for them. He'd drive out into the countryside to their house, pick up a few thousand dollars in cash, write a receipt, and head back to town to make their payment. He sometimes carry a gun during those trips (and only then).
Note: this was in the mid '80s and that kind of high-touch customer service was relatively common where we lived. I'm sure he wasn't the only salesman driving around rural area with a pistol and lots of cash.
But Firing someone because it's an issue is a bit absurd and possibly illegal.
Unlikely. In an at-will state (of which there are many), you can be fired or quit at any time for all but a short list of protected reasons.
but firing someone because they could not get to work during an emergency is ridiculous.
I'd have to disagree. If "able to get to work quickly during an emergency" is part of your job description, then that might be a reasonable issue.
It sounds like more of a chronic understaffing problem, which I've heard is an issue in the medical professions.
Regardless of what I said above, I'm sure that was a huge part of it. I'll never understand the logic whereby it's cheaper and better to pay two people to work 60 hours each (with overtime) than three people to work 40 each.
I'm a n-th (n > 7 or so) generation American of European ancestry. I had an interview with, ahem, a major search company. In one of the sessions, I estimated a short distance in meters. The shocked interviewer flipped quickly through my resume and hiring notes:
Him: Wait, are you an American?
Me, very surprised: Ummm, yeah... does that matter?
Him: It's just that you used the Metric system.
Me: I minored in physics.
Him: Oh.... [scribbling]
I don't think my citizenship status affected the eventual hiring decision, but that really caught me off guard. I wondered how that same question would've felt if I wasn't born and raised here.
"How fast can you get to work from your place at both wee hours of the morning as well as rush hour?" The place graded people on a tier system -- people who were lower tiers were people who were not in the center of town or had to commute through a main, overcrowded highway.
In fairness, there are a lot of jobs where that could matter, particularly in critical services (nurse, policeman, even sysadmin). If something goes bad at 3AM, or your replacement catches the stomach flu and the nature of the job requires someone to be on site at all times, will you be able to do it? I just moved away from a state with very bad winters, and I knew a very good, very qualified nurse who got fired when she couldn't drive in during a winter storm warning. People who lived in town were able to make it through the plowed streets. People who lived in the rural bedroom communities couldn't. Patients don't stop getting sick just because one person can't make their shift.