NAT doesn't work for you? Since this is how the Internet has worked since forever, I can only assume the problem isn't with NAT.
I'm not sure if you're being ignorant or "forever" is exaggeration for effect.
The Internet was built with real end-to-end connectivity. From a connected host, I could (subject to local security policies at both ends) make a connection to any other host. It worked nicely for (depending on how you want to measure), anything of the order of 20 or 30 years,,much of that before the web.
NAT broke that, making innovation harder, as now every developer has to jump through a bunch of hoops to find tricks for two hosts to communicate with each other, typically with additional infrastructure in the middle. At the same time, it made it harder for people behind NAT to run services other people could connect to, effectively creating a two-tier Internet of "producers" and "consumers". Of course, this makes a lot of ISPs who are also content providers very happy, as the Internet just turns into next-gen-TV, only with more funny cats.
IPv6 fixes the Internet by removing NAT and restoring the original end-to-end design. Bring it on.
If there was an alternative UI that made content+semantic markup smooth and easy with formatting by specifying tag meaning done later, there would be something to sell to businesses: improved worker productivity.
Except that any productivity gains for this quarter would be more than offset by the need to retrain people to work in this way - and as we know, nothing exists in business any more beyond this quarter.
Even leaving short-term financial thinking aside, businesses will resist training people to use a word processor, because "everyone can use Word", and people will resist the training if its given, because the majority don't want to think about document structure or semantics, they just want to spew their brain to the page and make it look "pretty".
The number of people for whom inserting page break rather than pressing return until the cursor is on the next page falls into "power user" territory is frankly terrifying.
I first wrote 6502 assembler by writing the whole thing out on paper, looking up the opcodes and working out the offsets for branches by hand, then feeding the result into the in-ROM BASIC interpreter with a READ / DATA / POKE loop to load into RAM.
Then I saved up my paper-round money and bought an assembler. Revelation:)
I don't care how much of a star you are, if you assault a colleague in the workplace, you *should* be fired, unless there are far, far, stronger mitigating circumstances than "my dinner was cold".
Are you trying to counter the OPs point, or re-enforce it?;)
Watching or playing sport has zero appeal for me; watching people play video games is pretty much the same. People talking about sport makes me want to gnaw a limb off to escape from the conversation.
Administrative contacts for a domain amount to nothing more than a pre-confirmed spam address. Why the hell would anyone use an address where they actually have to suffer through reading the crap that comes in?
My personal domains have my correct contact info on - email, snail-mail and mobile. I occasionally get stuff like the definitely-not-a-renewal notices from the Domain Registry of America and friends, but it's noise in amongst the general spam and junk-mail I have to filter anyway.
More to the point, it's the Right Thing to do, because the *privilege* of occupying a chunk of Internet resource comes with the *responsibility* of being contactable if bad things are emanating from it. Then again, my oldest registration dates to when you still had to write a justification to a human as to why you should be granted a domain, and wait a few days for a response. (I suspect in the twilight years when this was a rubber-stamping exercise, but you *did* still have to write it.)
Better yet, add bots and make a solo, single-player version of WoW available. I'd definitely buy it if it worked in Wine.
This. I love the first few levels of WoW where I don't have to interact with anyone. I think the art style is great, I enjoy the lore, the feeling of just wandering about exploring things is a whole bunch of fun.
Then I get to a point where it's time to go in an instance with other people, and I hate it, and quit.
Been round this loop three times now since vanilla. I know how it's going to go, but every few years I get the urge to go and do it again...
Most people don't realize how far we've come until you go back and play those games. If I recall correctly, in Doom, there was no jumping, and you couldn't aim up and down. The only way to move vertically was going up small steps, which your character automatically walked up. The levels were all 2 dimensional. It didn't support rooms above other rooms.
See, for me, these are features, not limitations.
One set of directional controls. Look where you move where you shoot. That's controls I can have fun with.
FPSes went downhill as soon as Quake introduced mouselook, and haven't been able to interest me since.
The sound for the game comes nicely out of the TV. If I'm gaming when other people in the house are trying to sleep or otherwise in need of quiet, I can just plug a regular pair of headphones into the TV.
If it's anything like the previous-generation BlackBerries, it's shockingly bad. We bought one for my wife on the strength of it having a physical keyboard, and waded through all the hand-over-your-password BIS nonsense. And, well... I guess it *might* work if you never ever want to look at your mail from anything other than your BB. Once the BB has decided what *its* view of your mailboxes is, good luck in having anything else you do via all your other (IMAP, webmail, whatever) clients have any relationship whatsoever to what you see or do on the BB.
Hello RIM? That's the *whole* *fucking* *point* of IMAP - the mail stays on the server, and I can get the same view of it from anywhere, not go through all the hoops we used to have to jump through to fake synchronisation on POP3 clients.
I've since disabled (or deconfigured, or otherwise turned off) the whole BB mail piece, and installed LogicMail, which I heartily recommend. It's a regular IMAP client, it makes IP connections to the mail server, and it all works Just Fine. If she leaves it running, it gets new mail notifications via IDLE. If she closes it, she doesn't get notifications, but it doesn't suck juice or network usage IDLEing. Her choice.
Actually, much of the BT set-up makes a whole lot of sense.
There *is* a natural monopoly in putting copper (or glass) in the ground or on poles, and the part of BT that does this is a distinct entity.
The parts of BT that sell everything from residential phone lines to corporate GigE circuits have to buy from the infrastructure part of BT on *exactly* the same terms as any other telecoms service provider. It's about as much of a level playing field as you're ever going to get...
Many nouns referring to a group of individuals are plural in English where they are singular in American, for example band names. English is always "BandOfYourChoice *are* playing at...", never "is".
"The BBC" is debatable, I think - is it the singular Corporation, or the collection of people who make it up? I'd tend towards the latter, in the same way I'd expect (in English) to see "Apple are launching the new iThing 47 next week". I'd only really expect it to be singular when it's the object of the sentence - "the BBC was formed by SomeActOfParliament in XXXX..."
But worst is that my computer is not my computer, it is shared with my wife. If you look at my eBay purchases you will think that I am schizophrenic or very weird - in reality it is purchases from two people mixed up. I received targetted ads based on a Christmas present that she bought for me, which somehow spoilt the surprise. So fuck targeted ads.
You're aware of this idea where you can have separate user accounts, even on the same computer, right?
Forget targetted ads - I don't want the same wallpaper as anyone else who uses the computer, I don't want the same icons, I don't want them in the same places, I don't want the same applications preferences.
We both use computers enough these days that I wouldn't want to share the hardware any more. Sharing the settings was rubbish in Windows 3.1 in 1993, let alone nearly 20 years later.
No, it isn't. It's easy. *Everything* is a/64 unless you have a really good reason why not. You should get at least a/56 for each site, for anything remotely "business-grade" a/48. You really don't have to care about numbers of hosts at all - start thinking in terms of what *networks* you need, how many of them, what your *subnet* addressing plan should look like...
It's not just more bits, it's a mindset-shift in how you design networks.
Me not understand "sell it back", don't you keep games forever as a proper gamer should?
I like RPGs, platformers, etc and hate FPSes (brown or otherwise) and sports games, but I also *already* have far more unplayed games than I have time to play. Keeping a game I've finished to play again at some unspecified future time is a non-starter for me.
I have a Sky subscription. I already pay for Sky Atlantic (which shows Game of Thrones and a bunch of other HBO stuff).
If I've missed something because of a clash on the DVR (can only record two channels simultaneously), or fat-fingered deleting the episode I've just watched *and* the next one, or simply didn't know I wanted to watch a series until a few episodes in, or ran out of space on the DVR, damn right I'll torrent it.
As far as I'm concerned, morally if not legally, anything that's previously been broadcast to me, on a channel I have an active, paid subscription for is fair game. It's effectively getting someone else to do my time-shifting for me.
My bugbear with GURPS was that I could never find any advice on how to provide appropriate challenges for the players. I could see how to gauage the difficulty of a particular skill check for a known group of characters, but extrapolating from that to designing an adventure was beyond me, particularly if there was going to be any combat involved. It's a shame, it seemed a nice system...
ATM cards are sort of the middle road where they do offer something that a credit card does not, but a simple change in lifestyle (keeping some cash around) makes even them a moot point.
Where are you getting cash from to "keep around" if not from an ATM? Life is far too short to waste any of it trying to get to a bank in the hours they condescend to open and then queue to withdraw cash...
At least, you do Japanese first (easy, Nintendo's native). Then you do English(/French) for North America (maybe Spanish as well). Then you pick either Europe and do the other languages, or Asia and its languages.
Where this really, really tends to suck is in the UK. We have to wait for the European release to be ready, due to localisation issues, but when we do finally get it, the game is still in American rather than English:(
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I'm not sure if you're being ignorant or "forever" is exaggeration for effect.
The Internet was built with real end-to-end connectivity. From a connected host, I could (subject to local security policies at both ends) make a connection to any other host. It worked nicely for (depending on how you want to measure), anything of the order of 20 or 30 years, ,much of that before the web.
NAT broke that, making innovation harder, as now every developer has to jump through a bunch of hoops to find tricks for two hosts to communicate with each other, typically with additional infrastructure in the middle. At the same time, it made it harder for people behind NAT to run services other people could connect to, effectively creating a two-tier Internet of "producers" and "consumers". Of course, this makes a lot of ISPs who are also content providers very happy, as the Internet just turns into next-gen-TV, only with more funny cats.
IPv6 fixes the Internet by removing NAT and restoring the original end-to-end design. Bring it on.
Except that any productivity gains for this quarter would be more than offset by the need to retrain people to work in this way - and as we know, nothing exists in business any more beyond this quarter.
Even leaving short-term financial thinking aside, businesses will resist training people to use a word processor, because "everyone can use Word", and people will resist the training if its given, because the majority don't want to think about document structure or semantics, they just want to spew their brain to the page and make it look "pretty".
The number of people for whom inserting page break rather than pressing return until the cursor is on the next page falls into "power user" territory is frankly terrifying.
I first wrote 6502 assembler by writing the whole thing out on paper, looking up the opcodes and working out the offsets for branches by hand, then feeding the result into the in-ROM BASIC interpreter with a READ / DATA / POKE loop to load into RAM.
Then I saved up my paper-round money and bought an assembler. Revelation :)
For me, it's neither more nor less boring than "real" sport, in that I have absolutely zero interest in watching either.
I don't care how much of a star you are, if you assault a colleague in the workplace, you *should* be fired, unless there are far, far, stronger mitigating circumstances than "my dinner was cold".
No previous straw required.
Are you trying to counter the OPs point, or re-enforce it? ;)
Watching or playing sport has zero appeal for me; watching people play video games is pretty much the same. People talking about sport makes me want to gnaw a limb off to escape from the conversation.
My personal domains have my correct contact info on - email, snail-mail and mobile. I occasionally get stuff like the definitely-not-a-renewal notices from the Domain Registry of America and friends, but it's noise in amongst the general spam and junk-mail I have to filter anyway.
More to the point, it's the Right Thing to do, because the *privilege* of occupying a chunk of Internet resource comes with the *responsibility* of being contactable if bad things are emanating from it. Then again, my oldest registration dates to when you still had to write a justification to a human as to why you should be granted a domain, and wait a few days for a response. (I suspect in the twilight years when this was a rubber-stamping exercise, but you *did* still have to write it.)
This. I love the first few levels of WoW where I don't have to interact with anyone. I think the art style is great, I enjoy the lore, the feeling of just wandering about exploring things is a whole bunch of fun.
Then I get to a point where it's time to go in an instance with other people, and I hate it, and quit.
Been round this loop three times now since vanilla. I know how it's going to go, but every few years I get the urge to go and do it again...
See, for me, these are features, not limitations.
One set of directional controls. Look where you move where you shoot. That's controls I can have fun with.
FPSes went downhill as soon as Quake introduced mouselook, and haven't been able to interest me since.
*sigh*
Or just possibly I could be gently mocking yet another discussion assuming "online multiplayer" is synonymous with "gaming".
Why would I want to talk to a games console?
The sound for the game comes nicely out of the TV. If I'm gaming when other people in the house are trying to sleep or otherwise in need of quiet, I can just plug a regular pair of headphones into the TV.
If it's anything like the previous-generation BlackBerries, it's shockingly bad. We bought one for my wife on the strength of it having a physical keyboard, and waded through all the hand-over-your-password BIS nonsense. And, well... I guess it *might* work if you never ever want to look at your mail from anything other than your BB. Once the BB has decided what *its* view of your mailboxes is, good luck in having anything else you do via all your other (IMAP, webmail, whatever) clients have any relationship whatsoever to what you see or do on the BB.
Hello RIM? That's the *whole* *fucking* *point* of IMAP - the mail stays on the server, and I can get the same view of it from anywhere, not go through all the hoops we used to have to jump through to fake synchronisation on POP3 clients.
I've since disabled (or deconfigured, or otherwise turned off) the whole BB mail piece, and installed LogicMail, which I heartily recommend. It's a regular IMAP client, it makes IP connections to the mail server, and it all works Just Fine. If she leaves it running, it gets new mail notifications via IDLE. If she closes it, she doesn't get notifications, but it doesn't suck juice or network usage IDLEing. Her choice.
Actually, much of the BT set-up makes a whole lot of sense.
There *is* a natural monopoly in putting copper (or glass) in the ground or on poles, and the part of BT that does this is a distinct entity.
The parts of BT that sell everything from residential phone lines to corporate GigE circuits have to buy from the infrastructure part of BT on *exactly* the same terms as any other telecoms service provider. It's about as much of a level playing field as you're ever going to get...
The issue isn't around choosing a brand rather than generic "building blocks". The issue is that the plural of "Lego" is "Lego".
"LegOS" is an operating system for Lego Mindstorms.
May as well ask why you keep getting corrected when you insist on talking about multiple sheeps, gooses, or datas.
Many nouns referring to a group of individuals are plural in English where they are singular in American, for example band names. English is always "BandOfYourChoice *are* playing at...", never "is".
"The BBC" is debatable, I think - is it the singular Corporation, or the collection of people who make it up? I'd tend towards the latter, in the same way I'd expect (in English) to see "Apple are launching the new iThing 47 next week". I'd only really expect it to be singular when it's the object of the sentence - "the BBC was formed by SomeActOfParliament in XXXX..."
But worst is that my computer is not my computer, it is shared with my wife. If you look at my eBay purchases you will think that I am schizophrenic or very weird - in reality it is purchases from two people mixed up. I received targetted ads based on a Christmas present that she bought for me, which somehow spoilt the surprise. So fuck targeted ads.
You're aware of this idea where you can have separate user accounts, even on the same computer, right?
Forget targetted ads - I don't want the same wallpaper as anyone else who uses the computer, I don't want the same icons, I don't want them in the same places, I don't want the same applications preferences.
We both use computers enough these days that I wouldn't want to share the hardware any more. Sharing the settings was rubbish in Windows 3.1 in 1993, let alone nearly 20 years later.
No, it isn't. It's easy. *Everything* is a /64 unless you have a really good reason why not. You should get at least a /56 for each site, for anything remotely "business-grade" a /48. You really don't have to care about numbers of hosts at all - start thinking in terms of what *networks* you need, how many of them, what your *subnet* addressing plan should look like...
It's not just more bits, it's a mindset-shift in how you design networks.
Me not understand "sell it back", don't you keep games forever as a proper gamer should?
I like RPGs, platformers, etc and hate FPSes (brown or otherwise) and sports games, but I also *already* have far more unplayed games than I have time to play. Keeping a game I've finished to play again at some unspecified future time is a non-starter for me.
I have a Sky subscription. I already pay for Sky Atlantic (which shows Game of Thrones and a bunch of other HBO stuff).
If I've missed something because of a clash on the DVR (can only record two channels simultaneously), or fat-fingered deleting the episode I've just watched *and* the next one, or simply didn't know I wanted to watch a series until a few episodes in, or ran out of space on the DVR, damn right I'll torrent it.
As far as I'm concerned, morally if not legally, anything that's previously been broadcast to me, on a channel I have an active, paid subscription for is fair game. It's effectively getting someone else to do my time-shifting for me.
My bugbear with GURPS was that I could never find any advice on how to provide appropriate challenges for the players. I could see how to gauage the difficulty of a particular skill check for a known group of characters, but extrapolating from that to designing an adventure was beyond me, particularly if there was going to be any combat involved. It's a shame, it seemed a nice system...
ATM cards are sort of the middle road where they do offer something that a credit card does not, but a simple change in lifestyle (keeping some cash around) makes even them a moot point.
Where are you getting cash from to "keep around" if not from an ATM? Life is far too short to waste any of it trying to get to a bank in the hours they condescend to open and then queue to withdraw cash...
In what way is paying for your own domain and hosting your own email not a good answer? Why is an "other than" needed?
FPS games using gamepads have autoaim, while FPS games that use kb+m are more likely to be derided for including such a nubbish feature.
FPS games are dull, so it's not an issue. Thankfully, some interesting games are still made for consoles as well.
Where this really, really tends to suck is in the UK. We have to wait for the European release to be ready, due to localisation issues, but when we do finally get it, the game is still in American rather than English :(
I mean its not like the "innocent little angels" are equipped with their own penises (erection capable - oh the horror!) and vaginas or something...
I'm inclined to believe that's typically an "or" rather than an "and". Although Internet porn spam might make you believe otherwise...