So, only one person wins the prize, even though it will almost certainly require the effort of an online community? This sounds like a breeding ground for betrayal.
The last I heard, the only GPL'd part of Android is the kernel. Everything else is Apache/BSD. So, aside from the kernel, HTC wasn't really "dragging their feet," since they released their modifications voluntarily.
Some people (Cisco, etc.) are working on developing the Locator/ID Separation Protocol as a core component of the Internet infrastructure.
If that ever takes off, you'll be able to buy a Provider Independent IP address block, advertise it through multiple ISPs (even Cable/DSL), and transparently load balance your upstream and downstream traffic across them, without bloating the core BGP tables.
The downside is, you'll have to use an MTU that's smaller than 1500, but I'd say it's a fair trade.
The boy who cried wolf might have turned out differently if the boy were able to predict the approximate future date at which the wolf would come, and periodically reminded people that the date was getting closer.
As long as the ISPs and core infrastructure support IPv6, it doesn't really matter if the crappy end-user routers do. Users who don't care about end-to-end will stay behind their carrier-grade NAT. Users who figure out that IPv6 will make their torrents go faster will go buy the IPv6-capable hardware.
If civilization tanks, I'm sure the writing that needs to be done can still be done without cursive.
If civilization tanks, and we need to write a lot of something, I'm sure someone will at least remember the *concept* of a printing press. Once you already know what to build, rebuilding can't be that hard.
I see nothing wrong with using {hammer, nails, screwdriver, screws} to build something.
On the other hand, burning coal spews tons of toxic garbage into the air. Sure, we get electricity from it now, but in the long term we're all sick and/or dead.
You really think Philips would try selling a half-wave rectified LED emitter for $40? That would be so unbelievably awful, you'd probably see return rates close to 100%.
Hell, even the LED Christmas lights I bought at Wal-mart last year are full-wave.
You only save $23 a year if you compare against an incandescent bulb, which is like comparing your car's fuel economy against a school bus. When you compare these bulbs to CFLs, they make much less economic sense, unless you're worried about Mercury pollution.
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So, only one person wins the prize, even though it will almost certainly require the effort of an online community? This sounds like a breeding ground for betrayal.
The WRT54G is crap, because it only has 2MB of flash. This has been the case for years. Why do people keep recommending it?
And you're wrong too.
Most HTC phones use mini USB, not micro USB. Here's a photo of both.
Someone already tried IPv7 in 1993.
The last I heard, the only GPL'd part of Android is the kernel. Everything else is Apache/BSD. So, aside from the kernel, HTC wasn't really "dragging their feet," since they released their modifications voluntarily.
Some people (Cisco, etc.) are working on developing the Locator/ID Separation Protocol as a core component of the Internet infrastructure.
If that ever takes off, you'll be able to buy a Provider Independent IP address block, advertise it through multiple ISPs (even Cable/DSL), and transparently load balance your upstream and downstream traffic across them, without bloating the core BGP tables.
The downside is, you'll have to use an MTU that's smaller than 1500, but I'd say it's a fair trade.
There is no way to place or receive phone calls without an existing phone service.
That's not entirely true. Assuming you have a phone number to initialize your account with, you can forward your calls to Gizmo and use a SIP phone.
This device uses a Broadcom chipset, and needs a Linux 2.4 kernel with a binary blob to work properly.
Linux 2.6 was released in 2003. That's *six years* ago. What kind of bizarro-world are we living in where modern hardware still requires 2.4?
Citation needed. The only predictions I ever recall hearing were "Sometime around 2010-2012".
The boy who cried wolf might have turned out differently if the boy were able to predict the approximate future date at which the wolf would come, and periodically reminded people that the date was getting closer.
It won't free you from the failings of Verizon if you happen to be on one of the networks they omit from their routing table.
I expect RFC 3041 will make that somewhat difficult.
As long as the ISPs and core infrastructure support IPv6, it doesn't really matter if the crappy end-user routers do. Users who don't care about end-to-end will stay behind their carrier-grade NAT. Users who figure out that IPv6 will make their torrents go faster will go buy the IPv6-capable hardware.
Fail. Looks like Slashdot doesn't provide complete IPv6 either.
The original poster was incorrect.
"3 MEGAWATTS of energy ... in 2 minutes" implies units of "megawatts per minute", or "Joules per second per minute", which is meaningless.
It would be more correct to say "3 megawatts *for* 2 minutes", or "X *megajoules* in 2 minutes".
I haven't bothered to do the math myself, but I can see that yours is incorrect, because 2*3600s is 2 hours, not 2 minutes.
If civilization tanks, I'm sure the writing that needs to be done can still be done without cursive.
If civilization tanks, and we need to write a lot of something, I'm sure someone will at least remember the *concept* of a printing press. Once you already know what to build, rebuilding can't be that hard.
I, for one, hope that LTE was intelligently designed.
I see nothing wrong with using {hammer, nails, screwdriver, screws} to build something.
On the other hand, burning coal spews tons of toxic garbage into the air. Sure, we get electricity from it now, but in the long term we're all sick and/or dead.
You're arguing that we should burn coal just because we have a lot of it? If you had a hammer, would you insist on nailing your feet to the floor?
Just because something is possible, doesn't mean it's necessarily a good idea in the long term.
IPv7 was specified in 1993:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1475
You really think Philips would try selling a half-wave rectified LED emitter for $40? That would be so unbelievably awful, you'd probably see return rates close to 100%.
Hell, even the LED Christmas lights I bought at Wal-mart last year are full-wave.
You only save $23 a year if you compare against an incandescent bulb, which is like comparing your car's fuel economy against a school bus. When you compare these bulbs to CFLs, they make much less economic sense, unless you're worried about Mercury pollution.
Marketing guys: "You mean our ads will be targeted to the people who like to buy new hardware? Let's do it!"
So what? Electricity is already ridiculously cheap. Just make it cleaner.
They just need to cover the steel bars with a matte black cloth, topped with a gently pulsing white light.