Most Slashdotters are huddled over their fading VT100 terminals, furiously playing Nethack, which is considered the paragon of computer gaming. If ASCII is good enough for Nethack, it should be good enough for ANY game.
Sadly while something like this has potential for use in certain limited academic settings, I think it would easily fail the real-world test. I would not want my data to be held hostage to a whim of electrical malfunctions. Flash cards are notoriously fickle and should its battery fall out, your data will be gone. Much like turning your computer off without saving your work. As a professor of Computer Science at a major California university, it galls me to see such devices as these promoted without a clear explanation of their drawbacks being made public.
I'm all for anything that will stop terrorism. I think people who are afraid of this are only those with something to hide. Honest, law-abiding citizens have no need to fear this legislation passed by our benevolent and wise MPs.
Is he still getting beaten up by his wife? Its always heartbreaking when a leading physicist is abused at the hands of a female loved one. Oddly enough, such things never happen to chemists or biologists. Go figure....
I'm disappointed by Linux. I've asked many people for an answer to the following task, yet no one has been able to give me an answer. Thus I can conclude Linux cannot do something Windows can.
Is it possible for Linux to save a streaming media file, like Real Media? Apparently not.
Oh but it is. No one but Bush wanted to go to war. He initiated it.
t's anyone's war who decides that embracing freedom is better than embracing cowardice or kowtowing to murderers.
Did the Iraqis who didn't do anything deserve to die? Were they all murders?
As for the inocent civilians...what about all the innocent civilians whom the terrorist are trying / have killed?
Is killing other innocents the right way to avenge them? Furthermore, there was no link to al-Qaeda and Iraq, despite Bush's strong hinting that there was. He simply used it as a pretext to launch a war that he'd been dying to start. Now Muslim hatred towards America is stronger than its ever been. Well done, Mr President. I'm sure the world is safer now.
Perhaps a thorough review of our Middle Eastern policies would have been a better option.
This is a typical example of why you dorks aren't getting laid, and lack any serious friends. See the parent post was rather humorous. However you're attempt to ride its coattails simply leeched the humor out of the posting. Simply put, the first person to make the observation can be funny. However when you simply try to restate it, its not funny.
I remember reading an interview with him in the SF Bay Guardian several months ago. He spoke about having to spend twenty or more minutes walking to a place where he could get internet access. He said that if everyone had to spend 20 minutes walking to get online, the Internet would be a much, much better place.
Woah how odd. Do you still come to the old #hangout these days? If so, drop one of our mutual acquaintences a line and they'll pass it along to me, sailor!:)
These articles are designed to incite responses and are written by people who don't really know what they are talking about.
This is not to say that there are not problems with IPv6. While IPv6 fixes many problems in IPv4, the developed world will not embrace IPv6 until many shortcomings in the protocol are addressed. As a Brown University grad student, the subject of IPv6 is what my disseration is upon. Allow me to include a few "talking-points" on what I've learned.
1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6. Many of cisco's routers use the router's CPU to process IPv6 packets instead of the fast-path. The reasons for this are explained in the next few points. While Juniper's routers are substantially better at IPv6 than cisco's, IT managers are often restrained by insane corporate policy that dictactes the use of cisco. 2. There are too many addresses. There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, and I challenge you to come up with an application that requires that many. Assuming that you can actually come up with one, it could easily be solved with Network Address Translation, or NAT as it is commonly known. 3. IPv6 addresses are too large. An IPv6 address is 128 bits in size - 64 bits of which are reserved for addressing hosts, and 64 bits of which are reserved for routing. One thing that is cool with IPv6 is address autoconfiguration. Take your 56-bit MAC address on your ethernet card, ask for 64-bits of network prefix, bang it together with EUI-64 and you are set. The problem with a 64-bit network prefix is that routing tables become massive. Just do the math and you'll see that extreme amounts of memory are required to hold routing tables. 4. The IPv6 header is too large. An IPv4 header compact at 20 bytes in length, while the IPv6 is bloated at 40 bytes. That's right people, each one of your IP packets has twice as much overhead as before. While this may not sound much, IP networks have a requirement that the minimum MTU supported must be 576 bytes. That means that where you might have got 556 bytes of data in your IP packets, you now get 536 bytes. This means that downloading stuff will take 3.4% longer.
I feel that China and Japan are going to shoot themselves in the foot with IPv6. Having said that, the above points have to be addressed by the IPv6 community before it will be deployed outside of research networks, and what better place is there than slashdot to address these points?
Slashdot Mirror
Most Slashdotters are huddled over their fading VT100 terminals, furiously playing Nethack, which is considered the paragon of computer gaming. If ASCII is good enough for Nethack, it should be good enough for ANY game.
Sadly while something like this has potential for use in certain limited academic settings, I think it would easily fail the real-world test. I would not want my data to be held hostage to a whim of electrical malfunctions. Flash cards are notoriously fickle and should its battery fall out, your data will be gone. Much like turning your computer off without saving your work. As a professor of Computer Science at a major California university, it galls me to see such devices as these promoted without a clear explanation of their drawbacks being made public.
I'm all for anything that will stop terrorism. I think people who are afraid of this are only those with something to hide. Honest, law-abiding citizens have no need to fear this legislation passed by our benevolent and wise MPs.
They own the pipes. Common sense dictates those companies should be allowed to do with them as they wish. I don't understand what the big deal is.
This is great. I've been looking for the best app to steal music, movies and software with! Thank you, PC Magazine!
Go to the previous posting of this story. Find all the +5 posts and repeat them. Score karma! Repeat.
Unfortunately this expensive, worthless boondoggle will only continue. Meanwhile, the cost of university tuition is skyrocketing.
I'll miss that rascally little Chipmunk and his whimsical adventures.
Is he still getting beaten up by his wife? Its always heartbreaking when a leading physicist is abused at the hands of a female loved one. Oddly enough, such things never happen to chemists or biologists. Go figure....
I don't know which is more appalling: the fact you referenced an overused cliche in 1984 or the God-awful spelling that you used.
A man who hates America would obviously seek to undermine capitalism. Very fitting indeed.
There's porn on the Internet? Does anyone else know about this?
I'm disappointed by Linux. I've asked many people for an answer to the following task, yet no one has been able to give me an answer. Thus I can conclude Linux cannot do something Windows can.
Is it possible for Linux to save a streaming media file, like Real Media? Apparently not.
It's NOT Bush's War
Oh but it is. No one but Bush wanted to go to war. He initiated it.
t's anyone's war who decides that embracing freedom is better than embracing cowardice or kowtowing to murderers.
Did the Iraqis who didn't do anything deserve to die? Were they all murders?
As for the inocent civilians...what about all the innocent civilians whom the terrorist are trying / have killed?
Is killing other innocents the right way to avenge them? Furthermore, there was no link to al-Qaeda and Iraq, despite Bush's strong hinting that there was. He simply used it as a pretext to launch a war that he'd been dying to start. Now Muslim hatred towards America is stronger than its ever been. Well done, Mr President. I'm sure the world is safer now.
Perhaps a thorough review of our Middle Eastern policies would have been a better option.
Where's the justice for the several thousand Iraqi civilians who died in Bush's war. Weren't they just as innocent as those who died on 9/11?
Since you have to pay fees to watch TV, does UK television also have American-style commercials?
This is a typical example of why you dorks aren't getting laid, and lack any serious friends. See the parent post was rather humorous. However you're attempt to ride its coattails simply leeched the humor out of the posting. Simply put, the first person to make the observation can be funny. However when you simply try to restate it, its not funny.
Goddamn you Klerck, you sexy bastard! The next time we get together, I promise to juggle the boys while I'm giving you a hummer. Ok?
I remember reading an interview with him in the SF Bay Guardian several months ago. He spoke about having to spend twenty or more minutes walking to a place where he could get internet access. He said that if everyone had to spend 20 minutes walking to get online, the Internet would be a much, much better place.
Woah how odd. Do you still come to the old #hangout these days? If so, drop one of our mutual acquaintences a line and they'll pass it along to me, sailor! :)
Klerck you sexy stud. Long time no see. What's going on?
Sounds like the good, old-fashioned snipe hunt is still alive in the 21st century. :)
These articles are designed to incite responses and are written by people who don't really know what they are talking about.
This is not to say that there are not problems with IPv6. While IPv6 fixes many problems in IPv4, the developed world will not embrace IPv6 until many shortcomings in the protocol are addressed. As a Brown University grad student, the subject of IPv6 is what my disseration is upon. Allow me to include a few "talking-points" on what I've learned.
1. Cisco routers suck at IPv6. Many of cisco's routers use the router's CPU to process IPv6 packets instead of the fast-path. The reasons for this are explained in the next few points. While Juniper's routers are substantially better at IPv6 than cisco's, IT managers are often restrained by insane corporate policy that dictactes the use of cisco.
2. There are too many addresses. There are 16.7 million addresses per square metre of the earth's surface, including the oceans. This is overkill. The world does not need more than the 4 billion addresses available with IPv4, and I challenge you to come up with an application that requires that many. Assuming that you can actually come up with one, it could easily be solved with Network Address Translation, or NAT as it is commonly known.
3. IPv6 addresses are too large. An IPv6 address is 128 bits in size - 64 bits of which are reserved for addressing hosts, and 64 bits of which are reserved for routing. One thing that is cool with IPv6 is address autoconfiguration. Take your 56-bit MAC address on your ethernet card, ask for 64-bits of network prefix, bang it together with EUI-64 and you are set. The problem with a 64-bit network prefix is that routing tables become massive. Just do the math and you'll see that extreme amounts of memory are required to hold routing tables.
4. The IPv6 header is too large. An IPv4 header compact at 20 bytes in length, while the IPv6 is bloated at 40 bytes. That's right people, each one of your IP packets has twice as much overhead as before. While this may not sound much, IP networks have a requirement that the minimum MTU supported must be 576 bytes. That means that where you might have got 556 bytes of data in your IP packets, you now get 536 bytes. This means that downloading stuff will take 3.4% longer.
I feel that China and Japan are going to shoot themselves in the foot with IPv6. Having said that, the above points have to be addressed by the IPv6 community before it will be deployed outside of research networks, and what better place is there than slashdot to address these points?
What's the deal with it? Is it good or is it whack? I'd be thankful if someone could explain the concept of Usenet to me?
Let's keep those Frogs off our American site. Filthy English need to go back to Scotland.