"I'll answer your question with another: Why not?"
Because its added complexity that will add to the price and probably reduce the reliability. Instead of the manufacturer spending money on important things like good energy efficiency they'll waste R&D on crap like this that only appeals to a tiny minority of geeks.
You try and remember even a single IP6 address or even type one in accurately and you'll see what I mean. Whoever though hex codes were the way to go for IP6 should be hung drawn and quartered then forced to run a IP6 DNS service in hell.
Why will white goods need to be on the internet at all?
I mean a *good* reason , not just the usual re-hashed fridge-can-reorder-beer-for-you Jetsons style drivel that is laughably spoken about as some vital function by techno evangelists.
.. trying to explain that to someone who's obviously an MS fanboy and swallows anything they tell him. He probably wouldn't blink if MS suggested he needed 1 terabyte to bring up a DOS prompt in W7.
...with yet another desperate GUI attempt to catch up with OS/X, why don't they release the tentative minimum CPU and memory specs for the OS so people will know if they'll be able to boot it and run up notepad with anything less than a 5Ghz 4 core machine with 1 terabyte of memory.
"The non-binary groups have mostly been worthless for a long time now"
Oh really? Which ones? I regularly post on 3 non binary groups and read 2 others and theres plenty of traffic. Perhaps you should try usenet one day instead of blowing smoke out your backside.
"Those who can't live without comp.lang.perl or whatever can pay to get it,"
Oh how magnanimus of you. Perhaps you'd like to pay extra to a 3rd party for using the web after you've already paid your ISP for net access too since you're clearly some kid who thinks the web=the internet
I've worked in the banking, media and science sectors and I've yet to work in a firm that couldn't survive without the internet albeit with a bit more hassle for some of the staff. If you seriously think western business is predicated upon websites and email you really need re-evaluate your beliefs.
I mean come on , who wants to waste time searching out some website to post a question or find a discussion when you just need access to a news server and the lot is available immediately.
Anyone who doesn't use it just because they think its old fashioned and uncool because it doesn't have the "ooh shiny" factor is a blinkered idiot.
"The most important tool at ISPs' disposal during a serious pandemic, panelists agreed, was that of network and bandwidth management controls"
WTF? During a pandemic I should think most employees of an ISP will have far more important things to worry about (you know, trivial stuff like their families etc) than whether the network bandwidth is ok. FFS.
Mainframes in the late 80s suddenly became big , nasty and old fashioned systems and desperately untrendy. The PC and unix boxes suddenly became the system de jour and all the supposed hot new talent went in that direction. Unfortunately , not being very good at reading history they had zero clue as to what mainframes actually got up to and so its taken them this long to effectively re-invent the wheel. So endeth this tale.
This is a sticking plaster for the lousy PC architecture which today is being forced into places it was never designed for. Read up on what IBM and Tandem were doing back in the 70s and 80s which hardware that was designed for this.
This isn't hot new tech, its putting lipstick on a turd so companies can save a few pennies.
"He also claims to have identified a short list of universal (world-wide, culture-independent) expressions that belong to specific emotions."
That doesn't mean everyone does it. Just the people he's examined. I'd like to know his sample size - are we talking thousands? Or dozens? If its the latter then its statistically irrelevant.
Therefor saying that he expressed digust over Obama is pushing it a bit. Even if that was what his facial expression meant there could have been many other things on his (or anyone else in that situation) mind. Perhaps he just had wind, who knows. MOst of these "I know what someone is thinking from fleeting facial expression" types are just modern day snake oil sellers.
"You don't need malware or anything else to get a router's MAC address, it's in every packet the router sends out."
That may be the case, but that address only goes as far as the next router down the chain so unless someone is connected to the original router by a physical connection they'll never find it out - you can't wardrive a cabled network.
Wifi OTOH using radio allows anyone in range to find out its address. Thats the problem.
... why a VM has to "support" a given OS such as Vista or Solaris or Linux?
FTA: "Apart from its support for SPARC and Solaris..."
Surely if these VMs truly are PCs emulated in software with standard emulated devices then surely any OS than runs on the PC architecture and has drivers for these devices will install and run on these VMs regardless?
If only. Its actually X that captures those key combinations. If X goes down so do they. Also while X has control of the keyboard it disables ctrl-alt-del so you can't even do a soft reboot. Try it next time you're in X - you'll find either nothing happens or the window manager brings up a dialog. Either way , your system won't reboot without further prompting.
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I'm not talking about your little PC connected to ADSL FFS.
Just how lazy are you?
"I'll answer your question with another:
Why not?"
Because its added complexity that will add to the price and probably reduce the reliability. Instead of the manufacturer spending money on important things like good energy efficiency they'll waste R&D on crap like this that only appeals to a tiny minority of geeks.
You try and remember even a single IP6 address or even type one in accurately and you'll see what I mean. Whoever though hex codes were the way to go for IP6 should be hung drawn and quartered then forced to run a IP6 DNS service in hell.
Why will white goods need to be on the internet at all?
I mean a *good* reason , not just the usual re-hashed fridge-can-reorder-beer-for-you Jetsons style drivel that is laughably spoken about as some vital function by techno evangelists.
.. trying to explain that to someone who's obviously an MS fanboy and swallows anything they tell him. He probably wouldn't blink if MS suggested he needed 1 terabyte to bring up a DOS prompt in W7.
...with yet another desperate GUI attempt to catch up with OS/X, why don't they release the tentative minimum CPU and memory specs for the OS so people will know if they'll be able to boot it and run up notepad with anything less than a 5Ghz 4 core machine with 1 terabyte of memory.
"Ever heard of VOIP "
Ever heard of POTS?
"And just how do you think that the branches of a modern bank communicate account [financial] data with the central branch?"
Err , they use secure leased lines moron.
"The non-binary groups have mostly been worthless for a long time now"
Oh really? Which ones? I regularly post on 3 non binary groups and read 2 others and theres plenty of traffic. Perhaps you should try usenet one day instead of blowing smoke out your backside.
"Those who can't live without comp.lang.perl or whatever can pay to get it,"
Oh how magnanimus of you. Perhaps you'd like to pay extra to a 3rd party for using the web after you've already paid your ISP for net access too since you're clearly some kid who thinks the web=the internet
I've worked in the banking, media and science sectors and I've yet to work in a firm that couldn't survive without the internet albeit with a bit more hassle for some of the staff. If you seriously think western business is predicated upon websites and email you really need re-evaluate your beliefs.
if thats not mainstream I don't know what is. Just because you perhaps don't use it...
I mean come on , who wants to waste time searching out some website to post a question or find a discussion when you just need access to a news server and the lot is available immediately.
Anyone who doesn't use it just because they think its old fashioned and uncool because it doesn't have the "ooh shiny" factor is a blinkered idiot.
Like I said , you need to get out more and see the real world outside your IT ivory tower.
An ISP is hardly a vital public utility. If you think it is then you need to get out more.
"The most important tool at ISPs' disposal during a serious pandemic, panelists agreed, was that of network and bandwidth management controls"
WTF? During a pandemic I should think most employees of an ISP will have far more important things to worry about (you know, trivial stuff like their families etc) than whether the network bandwidth is ok. FFS.
Mainframes in the late 80s suddenly became big , nasty and old fashioned systems and desperately untrendy. The PC and unix boxes suddenly became the system de jour and all the supposed hot new talent went in that direction. Unfortunately , not being very good at reading history they had zero clue as to what mainframes actually got up to and so its taken them this long to effectively re-invent the wheel. So endeth this tale.
But people in IT rarely read up on their own history so think everything they haven't seen before is cutting edge tech.
This is a sticking plaster for the lousy PC architecture which today is being forced into places it was never designed for. Read up on what IBM and Tandem were doing back in the 70s and 80s which hardware that was designed for this.
This isn't hot new tech, its putting lipstick on a turd so companies can save a few pennies.
"He also claims to have identified a short list of universal (world-wide, culture-independent) expressions that belong to specific emotions."
That doesn't mean everyone does it. Just the people he's examined. I'd like to know his sample size - are we talking thousands? Or dozens? If its the latter then its statistically irrelevant.
"As a side note in response to your comment's title, physics isn't an exact science either, you know."
Its a bit more exact than "oh , did that proton look unhappy for a nanosecond? It must have hit a neutrino"
Therefor saying that he expressed digust over Obama is pushing it a bit. Even if that was what his facial expression meant there could have been many other things on his (or anyone else in that situation) mind. Perhaps he just had wind, who knows. MOst of these "I know what someone is thinking from fleeting facial expression" types are just modern day snake oil sellers.
Torque can be multiplied by gearing. Power can't. Therefor power is a much better indicator of what an engine is capable of than torque.
"You don't need malware or anything else to get a router's MAC address, it's in every packet the router sends out."
That may be the case, but that address only goes as far as the next router down the chain so unless someone is connected to the original router by a physical connection they'll never find it out - you can't wardrive a cabled network.
Wifi OTOH using radio allows anyone in range to find out its address. Thats the problem.
... why a VM has to "support" a given OS such as Vista or Solaris or Linux?
FTA: "Apart from its support for SPARC and Solaris..."
Surely if these VMs truly are PCs emulated in software with standard emulated devices then surely any OS than runs on the PC architecture and has drivers for these devices will install and run on these VMs regardless?
If only. Its actually X that captures those key combinations. If X goes down so do they. Also while X has control of the keyboard it disables ctrl-alt-del so you can't even do a soft reboot. Try it next time you're in X - you'll find either nothing happens or the window manager brings up a dialog. Either way , your system won't reboot without further prompting.