You would drop your ISP so fast if they gave you an IPv6 only service today. It's just not ready yet. You can get some some services, but a great many would be broken, and you can forget about hooking up a ton of your existing hardware, because it will never support IPv6.
Hell, do the Wii/360/PS3 support IPv6? I'm pretty sure the Wii doesn't, but I don't know about the other two. Not to mention Tivos, Slingboxes, Rokus, etc...
That's not to say however that I'm letting ISPs off of the hook. We should have been getting IPv6 addresses for years now, but they're dragging their heels. The only way to get this stuff fixed is for a bunch of people to start actually using it for real and reporting the problems.
The scary thing is that for every Class A returned to the pool, you only buy like a month of life for IPv4. It's just growing too fast now and we're going to start seeing a lot of stories about people not getting their IP addresses in a year or two. Luckily it won't affect existing customers too badly, but it will be a real limit on growth.
Is this just a math trick, or what is going on here? I'm pretty sure "we're creating mass" is not literally what's happening, but I can't make heads or tails of it.
He also ordered missile strikes against training camps and alleged chemical weapons factories. The Republicans complained that he was playing politics however and demanded that he stop.
Maybe, but despite all of the posturing and rhetoric, I like to think that none of our world leaders have ever been insane enough to actually launch a nuclear strike. Diplomacy is a strange game, nice guys tend to finish last and it often pays to project a slight air of crazy, which ordinary people unfortunately believe, even if the actual diplomats/politicians don't.
This is also important to remember in the modern age, especially when dealing with Iran or North Korea. Behind the scenes nobody wants a nuclear war, even if they got a clean "first strike", it's a world sized can of worms politically, economically, and socially. It's no good being the last nation on earth if your own people revolt and overthrow your government.
Remember, the only time nuclear weapons have ever been dropped in anger, it caused an end to the largest war in the world's history and caused every person on earth to stop and wonder if we had gone too far.
While it's true that there are more than 360 of them up there, that's because they're on different frequencies, and there are a few half-angles in the mix (you need a tighter/more expensive beam). Remember that it's not just interference on your part that you need to worry about, it's interfering with other people, who have simple (cost effective) dishes and run multi-million dollar businesses (like TV stations!) with them. If you're interfering, someone is going to hunt you down and shut you off.
I've been pretty happy with VirtualBox too, however, there is one big caveat: The 3D support is really fragmentary and doesn't really do much of anything useful yet. For Photoshop and Lightroom you might be able to get by for now, but those are the kind of apps that are on the cusp of using CUDA and related technologies to speed up processing in the future.
There are a couple of other caveats to it as well. It doesn't handle USB devices as nicely as VMWare (I was able to run USB EVDO cards from inside of a VM with VMWare for instance, and VirtualBox doesn't appear to have anything similar to that at all), and anything that requires a lot of I/O is going to suffer because that's where VMs always suffer.
The problem isn't the physical space the satellite occupies, it is the beam width of the dishes that transmit to it. Assuming they use a Ku frequency (most common for Geosats currently, although Ka is gaining ground), you have a beam spread of about 1 degree with a 2 meter dish. This means you can't put the satellites closer than 1 degree apart without interference, which means you're limited to 360 of them over the Earth. You could go with a different frequency band, but that will cause more regulatory hurdles (you have to transmit to it from somewhere, and wherever that is you're going to have to deal with spectrum), and additional costs as you build your own hardware.
Beam spread is also a concern for the dishes that listen to your satellite, especially if you want to use small DirectTV sized dishes, which have a larger beam spread and must use Spread Spectrum (cutting into your bandwidth) if they want to talk back to the bird to avoid raising the noise floor on the neighboring satellites too much.
There are a lot of questions they didn't answer, and probably have not even thought about yet. Is it going to be a Geosynchronous satellite? If so, launch costs are going to be very very high and frankly there isn't much (any?) space left. You would have to buy out an older satellite's spot most likely, unless you just want to cover the ocean and bits of the coast. If they want to save on launch costs, they could make a LEO satellite, but it will have a fixed lifetime and only be available to people for a few minutes every few hours. Added bonus: any yokel with a decent antenna could pick it up fairly easily. Lots of HAMs have enough equipment for instance. Geo sats require more expensive equipment, although they may be able to repurpose old DirectTV hardware.
Of course there's the additional problem of running a server in space. Most satellites are just bent pipes, they don't really do anything to the signal outside of running it through a low noise amp. Honestly, the whole scheme is pretty half baked at this point, and I'd give them maybe a 0.1% chance of pulling it off without some miracle happening. Maybe if we get affordable commercial spaceflight that the X-Prize and related groups have been trying to encourage then there would be a sliver of hope, but I'm not holding my breath.
Well, it's using a C2D instead of an Atom, so that's one strike against it. It also has something resembling a real graphics chip instead of the normal integrated Intel crap, so that's two strikes. It's also $1000 or more, which is three strikes. Seems closer to a subcompact notebook than a netbook, even if that distinction is splitting hairs a bit. I could probably go either way, but since Netbook generally implies a <$500 price point I would be reluctant to lump this in with other netbooks.
Last time I tried, I couldn't get any OS to see a large drive attached to one of those chips. Windows 7, Freebsd, Linux, they all failed to see any drive at all on the controller. I had to stick a Promise controller in there to get the drive to work.
From what I've seen, Promise is the only consumer controller company that makes their own chips. Everybody else just slaps a 3112 on a PCI card and calls it a day. Unfortunately, because nobody advertises what chip they're using, you can't find this out until you buy the card and stick it into a machine.
What about the difference between the two news feeds? Setting up permissions? Groups? Hell, even navigating the profile is a pain in the rear. There's a lot on Facebook that needs fixing.
Also, Jobs could come in and say "Because we want to support the iOS devices, no Flash will be allowed on Facebook anymore". That would be a massive improvement right off the bat. At the very least it would shut down Farmville for awhile.
So there are a million reasons this would be a terrible idea, but there is one potential benefit: Facebook could finally receive the badly needed usability revamp that it has needed for years now. If there's one company that knows how to make interfaces, it's Apple, and the confusing mess that is Facebook is long long overdue for a major reworking.
I know we didn't get to see the crowd very well, but the part of we we did see in that video was anything but ugly. Mostly just people milling about, taking pictures, and one lady blowing bubbles. It wasn't exactly a mob situation. It didn't even sound very angry in the background.
I know for a fact that the SiI 3112 chip can't support even 2TB drives, and that chip is absolutely everywhere since it's a favorite of motherboard manufacturers and add-in card builders. It looks like competence is not necessarily a requirement for success.
His butt was saved by an unusually considerate thief, but I hope he learns his lesson and makes backups of his life's work on a regular basis. There's really no excuse for losing 10 years worth of work because your laptop was stolen. What if the thing caught on fire? Or the hard drive self destructed? It's ridiculous not to back up something that important.
How many 4G phones are out there right now? It has to be a tiny number compared to 3G handsets. It seems like it should be trivially easy for the phone to rip through data because there's little to no competition for the airtime at the moment. I'd be more interested in what this looks like in a couple of years when there is a million iPhones/Androids/etc... on Sprint all competing for the bandwidth.
They mentioned in the article (albeit obliquely) that the sysadmin thought he could probably reduce the load by working with the software guys, but in the end it would cost more than the $1 he spent on this solution. Plus, it might not even work if the software guys were in fact competent and the problem is just that you have too many users for the old hardware.
As I understand it, organized crime is willing to pay for exploits because they don't have direct access to real hackers but still want to set up bot nets for various purposes. If someone is willing to pay for something you made (well discovered), then why give it away for free? Especially if you're some anonymous teenager still living at home.
So the winner is just a Muta harassment bot? I have to wonder if the top level human player just spammed some Corsairs or Valks? It didn't seem like the AI was particularly good at changing strategy if the opponent countered. Spreading out the Mutas would help against a Corsair or Valk counter though, since both of those units rely on the Mutas natural tendency to clump to get maximum effectiveness.
Hell, it's entirely possible that some of the money from that Muslim Community Associate IS going to terrorist groups. Even if his intentions were as pure as driven snow, it's really hard to track what happens to money once it lands in the middle east.
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You would drop your ISP so fast if they gave you an IPv6 only service today. It's just not ready yet. You can get some some services, but a great many would be broken, and you can forget about hooking up a ton of your existing hardware, because it will never support IPv6.
Hell, do the Wii/360/PS3 support IPv6? I'm pretty sure the Wii doesn't, but I don't know about the other two. Not to mention Tivos, Slingboxes, Rokus, etc...
That's not to say however that I'm letting ISPs off of the hook. We should have been getting IPv6 addresses for years now, but they're dragging their heels. The only way to get this stuff fixed is for a bunch of people to start actually using it for real and reporting the problems.
The scary thing is that for every Class A returned to the pool, you only buy like a month of life for IPv4. It's just growing too fast now and we're going to start seeing a lot of stories about people not getting their IP addresses in a year or two. Luckily it won't affect existing customers too badly, but it will be a real limit on growth.
Is this just a math trick, or what is going on here? I'm pretty sure "we're creating mass" is not literally what's happening, but I can't make heads or tails of it.
He also ordered missile strikes against training camps and alleged chemical weapons factories. The Republicans complained that he was playing politics however and demanded that he stop.
Maybe, but despite all of the posturing and rhetoric, I like to think that none of our world leaders have ever been insane enough to actually launch a nuclear strike. Diplomacy is a strange game, nice guys tend to finish last and it often pays to project a slight air of crazy, which ordinary people unfortunately believe, even if the actual diplomats/politicians don't.
This is also important to remember in the modern age, especially when dealing with Iran or North Korea. Behind the scenes nobody wants a nuclear war, even if they got a clean "first strike", it's a world sized can of worms politically, economically, and socially. It's no good being the last nation on earth if your own people revolt and overthrow your government.
Remember, the only time nuclear weapons have ever been dropped in anger, it caused an end to the largest war in the world's history and caused every person on earth to stop and wonder if we had gone too far.
13,000 you say?
While it's true that there are more than 360 of them up there, that's because they're on different frequencies, and there are a few half-angles in the mix (you need a tighter/more expensive beam). Remember that it's not just interference on your part that you need to worry about, it's interfering with other people, who have simple (cost effective) dishes and run multi-million dollar businesses (like TV stations!) with them. If you're interfering, someone is going to hunt you down and shut you off.
I've been pretty happy with VirtualBox too, however, there is one big caveat: The 3D support is really fragmentary and doesn't really do much of anything useful yet. For Photoshop and Lightroom you might be able to get by for now, but those are the kind of apps that are on the cusp of using CUDA and related technologies to speed up processing in the future.
There are a couple of other caveats to it as well. It doesn't handle USB devices as nicely as VMWare (I was able to run USB EVDO cards from inside of a VM with VMWare for instance, and VirtualBox doesn't appear to have anything similar to that at all), and anything that requires a lot of I/O is going to suffer because that's where VMs always suffer.
The problem isn't the physical space the satellite occupies, it is the beam width of the dishes that transmit to it. Assuming they use a Ku frequency (most common for Geosats currently, although Ka is gaining ground), you have a beam spread of about 1 degree with a 2 meter dish. This means you can't put the satellites closer than 1 degree apart without interference, which means you're limited to 360 of them over the Earth. You could go with a different frequency band, but that will cause more regulatory hurdles (you have to transmit to it from somewhere, and wherever that is you're going to have to deal with spectrum), and additional costs as you build your own hardware.
Beam spread is also a concern for the dishes that listen to your satellite, especially if you want to use small DirectTV sized dishes, which have a larger beam spread and must use Spread Spectrum (cutting into your bandwidth) if they want to talk back to the bird to avoid raising the noise floor on the neighboring satellites too much.
There are a lot of questions they didn't answer, and probably have not even thought about yet. Is it going to be a Geosynchronous satellite? If so, launch costs are going to be very very high and frankly there isn't much (any?) space left. You would have to buy out an older satellite's spot most likely, unless you just want to cover the ocean and bits of the coast. If they want to save on launch costs, they could make a LEO satellite, but it will have a fixed lifetime and only be available to people for a few minutes every few hours. Added bonus: any yokel with a decent antenna could pick it up fairly easily. Lots of HAMs have enough equipment for instance. Geo sats require more expensive equipment, although they may be able to repurpose old DirectTV hardware.
Of course there's the additional problem of running a server in space. Most satellites are just bent pipes, they don't really do anything to the signal outside of running it through a low noise amp. Honestly, the whole scheme is pretty half baked at this point, and I'd give them maybe a 0.1% chance of pulling it off without some miracle happening. Maybe if we get affordable commercial spaceflight that the X-Prize and related groups have been trying to encourage then there would be a sliver of hope, but I'm not holding my breath.
Well, it's using a C2D instead of an Atom, so that's one strike against it. It also has something resembling a real graphics chip instead of the normal integrated Intel crap, so that's two strikes. It's also $1000 or more, which is three strikes. Seems closer to a subcompact notebook than a netbook, even if that distinction is splitting hairs a bit. I could probably go either way, but since Netbook generally implies a <$500 price point I would be reluctant to lump this in with other netbooks.
To be fair, you also get things like an Optical drive on the MBP. Apple does grossly overcharge for the SSDs in the Macbooks though.
Last time I tried, I couldn't get any OS to see a large drive attached to one of those chips. Windows 7, Freebsd, Linux, they all failed to see any drive at all on the controller. I had to stick a Promise controller in there to get the drive to work.
From what I've seen, Promise is the only consumer controller company that makes their own chips. Everybody else just slaps a 3112 on a PCI card and calls it a day. Unfortunately, because nobody advertises what chip they're using, you can't find this out until you buy the card and stick it into a machine.
What about the difference between the two news feeds? Setting up permissions? Groups? Hell, even navigating the profile is a pain in the rear. There's a lot on Facebook that needs fixing.
Also, Jobs could come in and say "Because we want to support the iOS devices, no Flash will be allowed on Facebook anymore". That would be a massive improvement right off the bat. At the very least it would shut down Farmville for awhile.
So there are a million reasons this would be a terrible idea, but there is one potential benefit: Facebook could finally receive the badly needed usability revamp that it has needed for years now. If there's one company that knows how to make interfaces, it's Apple, and the confusing mess that is Facebook is long long overdue for a major reworking.
I know we didn't get to see the crowd very well, but the part of we we did see in that video was anything but ugly. Mostly just people milling about, taking pictures, and one lady blowing bubbles. It wasn't exactly a mob situation. It didn't even sound very angry in the background.
I know for a fact that the SiI 3112 chip can't support even 2TB drives, and that chip is absolutely everywhere since it's a favorite of motherboard manufacturers and add-in card builders. It looks like competence is not necessarily a requirement for success.
His butt was saved by an unusually considerate thief, but I hope he learns his lesson and makes backups of his life's work on a regular basis. There's really no excuse for losing 10 years worth of work because your laptop was stolen. What if the thing caught on fire? Or the hard drive self destructed? It's ridiculous not to back up something that important.
How many 4G phones are out there right now? It has to be a tiny number compared to 3G handsets. It seems like it should be trivially easy for the phone to rip through data because there's little to no competition for the airtime at the moment. I'd be more interested in what this looks like in a couple of years when there is a million iPhones/Androids/etc... on Sprint all competing for the bandwidth.
They mentioned in the article (albeit obliquely) that the sysadmin thought he could probably reduce the load by working with the software guys, but in the end it would cost more than the $1 he spent on this solution. Plus, it might not even work if the software guys were in fact competent and the problem is just that you have too many users for the old hardware.
As I understand it, organized crime is willing to pay for exploits because they don't have direct access to real hackers but still want to set up bot nets for various purposes. If someone is willing to pay for something you made (well discovered), then why give it away for free? Especially if you're some anonymous teenager still living at home.
The bot looked like it was pretty good at dancing the mutas around cliffs though, which is usually the downfall of Goliath spam.
Reading that, I still have no idea how what they did was any different than any of the other HFT bots in the market.
So the winner is just a Muta harassment bot? I have to wonder if the top level human player just spammed some Corsairs or Valks? It didn't seem like the AI was particularly good at changing strategy if the opponent countered. Spreading out the Mutas would help against a Corsair or Valk counter though, since both of those units rely on the Mutas natural tendency to clump to get maximum effectiveness.
You don't live in a city do you?
Hell, it's entirely possible that some of the money from that Muslim Community Associate IS going to terrorist groups. Even if his intentions were as pure as driven snow, it's really hard to track what happens to money once it lands in the middle east.