I guess I am way behind the curve here, but what's the easiest way to tell if my computer and home router can access an IPv6 host?
And since I'm running a small webserver from home, which I presume will remain IP4 indefinitely, what's the easiest way to tell if somebody with an IP6 address can access it?
What comparison? Despite all the blabbering there is actually no comparison in the article. Here's the key part:
Synthesizing the rumors and supposed leaks about the iPhone 5[...essentially baseless speculation.] Tests and assessments from reviewers and pundits will come next week, but will undoubtedly deviate from Apple's numbers.
Wifi could probably use much less power if it were able to dynamically steer a high-gain antenna towards the base.
Or maybe devices could use optical signaling instead. Imagine if the device used modulation of a mirror (perhaps by putting an LCD in front of it) so it could do bidirectional communication using only reflected energy (sapping only a tiny amount of energy for the modulator). This could be done opportunistically; if you're indoors and one of these IR transceivers is overhead use that, otherwise fall back to wifi; otherwise fall back to a radio cell.
I guess my point is some of these "hard physical limits" can become insignificant if you have enough infrastructure.
You are very right. A superconductor that's workable on a large scale would probably tip power infrastructure globally towards electricity. Imagine a few hundred square miles of wind turbines in West Texas providing clean, affordable energy in California.
Of course the Top500 uses Linpack anyways, not flops.
It would be interesting to see how well flops and the Linpack score correlate across the members of the Top500. My guess would be that they correlate pretty well, just because flops is never used as a serious benchmark so nobody bothers gaming it. But I could certainly be wrong.
Look at all of us here, taking the time to discuss a proposition put forth by an article that didn't even bother to cite one fact or statistic in favor of its premise. The only near-exception is the claim that unemployment in the "technology sector" is 5% which offers no insight into any potential differences between degreed vs. non-degreed workers.
So much for the idea that the rich don't need government or benefit from the taxes they pay. Otherwise the RIAA could never afford a global goon squad this effective. It will take decades to ring hundreds of thousands from this kid. He might never pay it off.
And by the way, you run a serious risk of confusing cause and effect when you say that violence causes food shortages and not the other way around. They are often entangled. Food shortages (or fear of impending food shortages) were key in triggering the so-called Great Leap Forward.
Yes, there will always be conflict surrounding food shortages. So I guess people will always be able to argue the conflict caused the food shortages and not the other way around.
The problem is, scarcity does NOT increase the efficiency or equality of resource distribution - more likely the opposite. Scarcity causes hoarding, either for self-preservation or as a weapon. You can't just say, "well, without those things there wouldn't have been a shortage." That is no consolation to the people being starved AND brutalized.
Oh crap, I just noticed a complaint below about server hosting not allowed. Now I think it is pointless.
As a point of reference, I've hosted my own ssh/website/email on my Comcast account for over 10 years without any trouble. And since they have a bandwidth cap, I figure that should settle the issue... so long as I'm within the limit why would they complain?
I think the most significant thing here is is 1 Gb Upstream. The Internet's underlying technology is fundamentally peer-to-peer, but the subsequent evolution of the Internet has been firmly rooted in the assumption of clients and servers. I feel the Internet is getting too centralized. With 1 Gb upstream, you could serve a popular website or other service from your home (granted, not youtube.. but don't worry you won't be that successful:)
Now you will say, "nobody wants to do that." Ok, but why? There's no inherent reason hosting your own email server or website has to be a pain, if there were user-friendly software and hardware to do it.
The basic difference is the how open-ended something is. A great gadget is one with a basic set of commands or functions that can be put together in limitless combinations. A computer with BASIC on it, or a big box of mixed Lego kits, meets this description. I am not so sure an iPad does, since it is mainly about streamlining certain functions. But maybe with the right apps it does. My son has never latched on to lego but Minecraft seems to tap his imagination in a comparable way, and it is apparently available on the iPad. Then again, my girls craft everything with construction paper, tin foil, and glue, and I think that is equally good.
People were asked which statements were closest to their own opinion about how evolutionary theories should be taught in science lessons in schools.
The highest proportion agreeing that evolutionary theories alone should be taught was in India, at 49%, followed by Spain (42%).
True, but not everybody's success rate is the same. One good trick is to start by turning the screw backwards until you feel it click, then start tightening.
I almost agree with blaming it on globalization, rather than inter-generational issues. But then, why has support for higher education been axed, with loans replacing education subsidies? Why did the minimum wage fall by a third from 1967 to 1988 and then stay there ever since? Why have tax rates been unrealistically low relative to promised benefits for the last 25 years? Unlike the declining wages, those are not prevailing conditions - they're policy choices.
It's all demographics. The reason the boomers had a special "sense of collective power and efficacy" is because there were so many of them that they in fact had extra power and efficacy. It's not about having a collective realization; the fact is the boomers have the votes. Both parties are clamoring over who will better preserve medicare and social security, at least for today's seniors!
I think recreation and luxury vehicles do depreciate faster than others. The last time I looked, used minivans were more expensive than if you straight pro-rated them from new to $0 at 150,000 miles.
Since most of your post was debunking presumed disadvantages of RV residence, what are the advantages? I would think the main one would be seasonal migration to avoid the heat of summer and cold of winter. But is there more?
OK, I somewhat misspoke about Afghanistan, as Iraq and Afghanistan are two rather different situations. But if I had said "a war" instead of "two wars" the rest would still be true.
I somewhat agree; it's hard to call Obama a "strong leader." And comparing Obama vs. Bush doesn't have a direct bearing on the election since Bush is not running.
I just don't buy the argument that whatever people said about Bush justifies saying the same about Obama. Two very different situations.
Oh, spare us. After eight years of liberals calling Bush every name in the book and inventing a few new ones too, you have the gall to blame Republicans for condemning liberalism?
Bush started two wars based on lies that cost trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands of people. Obama hasn't done anything remotely that harmful. Simple facts.
That's like saying washing your hands after you use the toilet is bad for you. Have we taken the whole antiseptic thing a bit too far? Perhaps. But getting infested with STD's cannot be the most healthy way to the white blood cells flowing.
I dunno. How many 3-Series does BMW sell at $45K? Any of those people could have bought a Camry for $25K instead - a difference of $20K (and the BMW will depreciate by more than the TOTAL price of the ridiculous TV in 10 years).
It's not frugal, but it's not really a vast sum of money.
I don't think things "touching" each has any literal meaning, does it? Two things "touching" means they're close enough that nuclear forces dominate. But you can always move them even closer by pushing harder.
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And since I'm running a small webserver from home, which I presume will remain IP4 indefinitely, what's the easiest way to tell if somebody with an IP6 address can access it?
In other words, nothing is known.
Or maybe devices could use optical signaling instead. Imagine if the device used modulation of a mirror (perhaps by putting an LCD in front of it) so it could do bidirectional communication using only reflected energy (sapping only a tiny amount of energy for the modulator). This could be done opportunistically; if you're indoors and one of these IR transceivers is overhead use that, otherwise fall back to wifi; otherwise fall back to a radio cell.
I guess my point is some of these "hard physical limits" can become insignificant if you have enough infrastructure.
You are very right. A superconductor that's workable on a large scale would probably tip power infrastructure globally towards electricity. Imagine a few hundred square miles of wind turbines in West Texas providing clean, affordable energy in California.
It would be interesting to see how well flops and the Linpack score correlate across the members of the Top500. My guess would be that they correlate pretty well, just because flops is never used as a serious benchmark so nobody bothers gaming it. But I could certainly be wrong.
Nothing to see here, move along.
So much for the idea that the rich don't need government or benefit from the taxes they pay. Otherwise the RIAA could never afford a global goon squad this effective. It will take decades to ring hundreds of thousands from this kid. He might never pay it off.
Yes, there will always be conflict surrounding food shortages. So I guess people will always be able to argue the conflict caused the food shortages and not the other way around.
The problem is, scarcity does NOT increase the efficiency or equality of resource distribution - more likely the opposite. Scarcity causes hoarding, either for self-preservation or as a weapon. You can't just say, "well, without those things there wouldn't have been a shortage." That is no consolation to the people being starved AND brutalized.
Pfft, the 20th century was child's play. The world population has TRIPLED since 1950.
As a point of reference, I've hosted my own ssh/website/email on my Comcast account for over 10 years without any trouble. And since they have a bandwidth cap, I figure that should settle the issue... so long as I'm within the limit why would they complain?
Now you will say, "nobody wants to do that." Ok, but why? There's no inherent reason hosting your own email server or website has to be a pain, if there were user-friendly software and hardware to do it.
The basic difference is the how open-ended something is. A great gadget is one with a basic set of commands or functions that can be put together in limitless combinations. A computer with BASIC on it, or a big box of mixed Lego kits, meets this description. I am not so sure an iPad does, since it is mainly about streamlining certain functions. But maybe with the right apps it does. My son has never latched on to lego but Minecraft seems to tap his imagination in a comparable way, and it is apparently available on the iPad. Then again, my girls craft everything with construction paper, tin foil, and glue, and I think that is equally good.
True, but not everybody's success rate is the same. One good trick is to start by turning the screw backwards until you feel it click, then start tightening.
I almost agree with blaming it on globalization, rather than inter-generational issues. But then, why has support for higher education been axed, with loans replacing education subsidies? Why did the minimum wage fall by a third from 1967 to 1988 and then stay there ever since? Why have tax rates been unrealistically low relative to promised benefits for the last 25 years? Unlike the declining wages, those are not prevailing conditions - they're policy choices.
It's all demographics. The reason the boomers had a special "sense of collective power and efficacy" is because there were so many of them that they in fact had extra power and efficacy. It's not about having a collective realization; the fact is the boomers have the votes. Both parties are clamoring over who will better preserve medicare and social security, at least for today's seniors!
I think recreation and luxury vehicles do depreciate faster than others. The last time I looked, used minivans were more expensive than if you straight pro-rated them from new to $0 at 150,000 miles.
Since most of your post was debunking presumed disadvantages of RV residence, what are the advantages? I would think the main one would be seasonal migration to avoid the heat of summer and cold of winter. But is there more?
OK, I somewhat misspoke about Afghanistan, as Iraq and Afghanistan are two rather different situations. But if I had said "a war" instead of "two wars" the rest would still be true.
I just don't buy the argument that whatever people said about Bush justifies saying the same about Obama. Two very different situations.
Bush started two wars based on lies that cost trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands of people. Obama hasn't done anything remotely that harmful. Simple facts.
That's like saying washing your hands after you use the toilet is bad for you. Have we taken the whole antiseptic thing a bit too far? Perhaps. But getting infested with STD's cannot be the most healthy way to the white blood cells flowing.
It's not frugal, but it's not really a vast sum of money.
I'm interested in your opinion about a "Chromebox PC" as mentioned in the summary... I didn't realize Chrome was intended as a full-fledged PC OS?
I don't think things "touching" each has any literal meaning, does it? Two things "touching" means they're close enough that nuclear forces dominate. But you can always move them even closer by pushing harder.