You should leave the movie making to the "professionals" they'd say...You might hurt yourself with that movie camera. If nothing else, you'll be doing something other than contributing to their bottom lines, so...step away from the camera, and put your eyes on the TV set.
If you honestly think that companies have the time and money to track things to that ability, you are crazy. It would cost them *millions*, and benefit them zero. They would be fighting tooth and nail against any request by the government to do that.
The companies don't have the time or money, but the government definately does. Any company I've worked for, if asked by a semi-anonymous "federal" agency for information, rolls over like a scared puppy. The government has (like Spiegel) nothing but time to spy on its citizens. They are the paranoid ones that we need to be watching out for, they are the crazed mumbling guy on the streetcorner that everybody goes out of their way to avoid. Handing them technology like this is like handing the aforementioned freak an automatic weapon. Sooner or later he'll figure out how to use it to fight off the voices that keep pestering him. Sooner or later, the government will figure out how to use this technology to oppress its citizenry.
Original for them, perhaps, but not for the industry.
Sun has made such terrifying missteps in the past that they need something other than simply doing what IBM, Novell and such are doing. I don't know what that would be, but something spectacular, other than just Linux.
It's not that I am opposed to the notation solely because of its complexity...but why do we need enough addresses for every molecule in the universe? Go read the Y10K RFC sometime, and it seems remarkably similar to the reasoning for IPV6. We have a solution now, IPV4, that, if utilized properly, would alleviate the need for an additional IPV...X solution. If there were a pressing need for quadrillions of addresses, and IPV4 could not provide a solution, I'd say ya, it's a complex problem with no non-complex solutions. IPV6 just seems like a way to perpetuate a flawed allotment system. Although I suppose if you approach an infinite number of addresses it becomes easier to satisfy a finite number of needs.
I'd much rather them get into Linux for the right reasons, ie getting actively involved in the community development process, rather than getting into Linux because it's the hot button of the moment. But in any case, yes, I'm VERY glad they are into Linux. As the old guard UNIX systems are taken offline one by one, I very much hope they are all rolled into Linux instead of walled off into Windows.
I dunno if I'd count jumping on the Linux/Open Source bandwagon "back on track" or not...I'd like to see some new ideas from them, but I haven't seen anything original yet, besides, perhaps, using AMD in a big way.
Until I absolutely HAVE to switch to IPV6, I will keep my much easier-to-remember addresses. Try to remember something like these:
fe80::02d0:c1ff:fe5c:0010/10
2002:c0a8:1122::5efe:0a01:0101/48
2001:7f8:2:c01f::2
I mean, DNS goes a long way towards turning that hex into something memorable, but as a sysadmin it does NOT make my life easier. Let's reclaim some of those/8 blocks allocated to people that barely use them, first. Does E.I duPont REALLY need 0.39% of the internet address space? Does Eli Lily? That is 16777216 addresses, for what? Does Eli Lily even have 16 million adressable devices? It seems to me that we have plenty of IPV4's, it's just the allocation stinks.
I think this represents a fundamental shift in what "big iron" of the future will be. Instead of a few ultra-reliable, ultra-expensive processors, we will use masses of somewhat-reliable, cheap processors. The 64-processor clusters are just the beginning. Sony/IBM's Cell is a step in that direction; lots of little processors, rather than one big one. Big Iron is just what you make of it, after all, and ultra-reliability in practice doesn't have to mean an archaic architecture in design.
Yacht:$15 million benefit
Semiconductors:$15 million benefit
More seriously, though, most semiconductors are made overseas. Most yachts are made in the US. So the semiconductor money is going somewhere else, to filter through lots of hands before, perversely, being borrowed back by the US government.
I agree that many people, including myself, switched to AMD a long time ago, and have reaped benefits from that in speed and cost. But the "real" I say that with BIG quotes computer people still aren't convinced. Case in point; a school district I work with has a consultant. He just bought a pair of servers for the district (which could have easily have made do with one.) To Do the Right Thing, he bought Intel Xeons. No matter they are not worth the multi-$K price bump, but in his mind, Intel is still "it." But things like the article-mentioned sales surge are changing that. Intel gave their marketing people some CAD tools, and had them design the Pentium 4 "NetBurst" architecture...it's legacy will haunt Intel for years to come. If and when Dell comes on board with AMD, it will become a very slippery slope indeed for Intel.
"This is rhetoric" is rhetoric...
Nobody took AMD seriously until AMD64; three years ago, Intel was trumpeting "32 bits should be enough for anybody" and wiping the floor with AMD across the board. Even as they were secretly preparing their own 64-bit extensions, they denied pursuing anything of the like.
When I suggested purchasing some AMD desktops for a business I was involved in, practically everybody said "AM who?" My point is the following; AMD was NOT a serious contender in the business or home market because their products were, in effect, clones of Intel. Look at the K5 and some of its "perfect" math (argument reduction, etc)...that broke some Intel-compatible software, so in the K6, it was changed back to the Intel "imperfect" implementation. Intel led, AMD followed. Compare that to now...AMD introduces 64-bit extensions, Intel follows. It is no surprise that AMD is on its way to being a TRUE sales leader.
What this says is that AMD is making serious inroads on Intel. Just a few years ago, AMD beating Intel at anything, by any metric, would have been laughable.
I just don't think it would be the same staring at an iPod while walking down the street rather than carrying it around face-out just so everyone can see that YUO ARE KEWL.
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from."
The suffering part is much more true than they would have intended. Without the bad times, the good times in your life seem like the same gelatinous goo as the times you don't remember. You define happiness by your previous unhappiness.
I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of buying a CD...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of wallet emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. The purchase of another inane piece of polycarbonate passed off as music. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. The RIAA sense my power, and they seek money. I do not avoid music, Mandrake...but I do deny them my money.
I can no longer sit back and allow...P2P infiltration, P2P subversion, and the international P2P conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!
Do you realize that in addition to P2P-ing music, why, there are studies underway to P2P video, software, news, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
My whole point is not that something can't be done, it's that something WON'T be done until there is absolutely no other choice. Without huge government mandates, there will be no energy efficient cars, no insulation, no ventilation, and no infrastructure built. The vast majority of the population of the US says "What's in it for me?" and if it doesn't involve a new big screen TV or a shiny SUV, they aren't interested. I agree completely that it's the US attitude that holds things back, but with the country becoming a "Hyperpower" thanks to oil, I don't see that changing.
If it appears that I am straw-manning, then that points out how stupid the whole argument is. Where do you suppose we get 9 million barrels of gasoline per day? By growing plants, of course? What powers the tractors that plow the ground, the trucks that transport it, the barges that haul it? Right now, anyway, it's good ol' hydrocarbons, pumped out of the ground. There is no infrastructure in place to make that much ethanol, bio-diesel, and soy-oil. I know that you want me to say "Yes, jack up the price of oil and make those soccer moms pay!"...but I wish to point out the general ignorance of the US public. They will vote for whoever allows them to maintain their SUV-driving lifestyle, plain and simple. Perhaps when rappers cruise around in diamond-encrusted Honda Insights, the attitude will change.
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You should leave the movie making to the "professionals" they'd say...You might hurt yourself with that movie camera. If nothing else, you'll be doing something other than contributing to their bottom lines, so...step away from the camera, and put your eyes on the TV set.
If the government can't find the loophole, they'll just drive tanks over it
Senator Roark will get revenge on you through Nancy! You cut his bloodline!
The companies don't have the time or money, but the government definately does. Any company I've worked for, if asked by a semi-anonymous "federal" agency for information, rolls over like a scared puppy. The government has (like Spiegel) nothing but time to spy on its citizens. They are the paranoid ones that we need to be watching out for, they are the crazed mumbling guy on the streetcorner that everybody goes out of their way to avoid. Handing them technology like this is like handing the aforementioned freak an automatic weapon. Sooner or later he'll figure out how to use it to fight off the voices that keep pestering him. Sooner or later, the government will figure out how to use this technology to oppress its citizenry.
Spilt my drink all over after that one...my netblock is bigger than yours!
Original for them, perhaps, but not for the industry. Sun has made such terrifying missteps in the past that they need something other than simply doing what IBM, Novell and such are doing. I don't know what that would be, but something spectacular, other than just Linux.
It's not that I am opposed to the notation solely because of its complexity...but why do we need enough addresses for every molecule in the universe? Go read the Y10K RFC sometime, and it seems remarkably similar to the reasoning for IPV6. We have a solution now, IPV4, that, if utilized properly, would alleviate the need for an additional IPV...X solution. If there were a pressing need for quadrillions of addresses, and IPV4 could not provide a solution, I'd say ya, it's a complex problem with no non-complex solutions. IPV6 just seems like a way to perpetuate a flawed allotment system. Although I suppose if you approach an infinite number of addresses it becomes easier to satisfy a finite number of needs.
I'd much rather them get into Linux for the right reasons, ie getting actively involved in the community development process, rather than getting into Linux because it's the hot button of the moment. But in any case, yes, I'm VERY glad they are into Linux. As the old guard UNIX systems are taken offline one by one, I very much hope they are all rolled into Linux instead of walled off into Windows.
Nah, I just copied those addresses off of the Intarweb, they're not mine. I'm IPV4 all the way, baby.
I dunno if I'd count jumping on the Linux/Open Source bandwagon "back on track" or not...I'd like to see some new ideas from them, but I haven't seen anything original yet, besides, perhaps, using AMD in a big way.
fe80::02d0:c1ff:fe5c:0010/10
2002:c0a8:1122::5efe:0a01:0101/48
2001:7f8:2:c01f::2
I mean, DNS goes a long way towards turning that hex into something memorable, but as a sysadmin it does NOT make my life easier. Let's reclaim some of thoseI think this represents a fundamental shift in what "big iron" of the future will be. Instead of a few ultra-reliable, ultra-expensive processors, we will use masses of somewhat-reliable, cheap processors. The 64-processor clusters are just the beginning. Sony/IBM's Cell is a step in that direction; lots of little processors, rather than one big one. Big Iron is just what you make of it, after all, and ultra-reliability in practice doesn't have to mean an archaic architecture in design.
Yacht:$15 million benefit Semiconductors:$15 million benefit More seriously, though, most semiconductors are made overseas. Most yachts are made in the US. So the semiconductor money is going somewhere else, to filter through lots of hands before, perversely, being borrowed back by the US government.
I agree that many people, including myself, switched to AMD a long time ago, and have reaped benefits from that in speed and cost. But the "real" I say that with BIG quotes computer people still aren't convinced. Case in point; a school district I work with has a consultant. He just bought a pair of servers for the district (which could have easily have made do with one.) To Do the Right Thing, he bought Intel Xeons. No matter they are not worth the multi-$K price bump, but in his mind, Intel is still "it." But things like the article-mentioned sales surge are changing that. Intel gave their marketing people some CAD tools, and had them design the Pentium 4 "NetBurst" architecture...it's legacy will haunt Intel for years to come. If and when Dell comes on board with AMD, it will become a very slippery slope indeed for Intel.
"This is rhetoric" is rhetoric... Nobody took AMD seriously until AMD64; three years ago, Intel was trumpeting "32 bits should be enough for anybody" and wiping the floor with AMD across the board. Even as they were secretly preparing their own 64-bit extensions, they denied pursuing anything of the like. When I suggested purchasing some AMD desktops for a business I was involved in, practically everybody said "AM who?" My point is the following; AMD was NOT a serious contender in the business or home market because their products were, in effect, clones of Intel. Look at the K5 and some of its "perfect" math (argument reduction, etc)...that broke some Intel-compatible software, so in the K6, it was changed back to the Intel "imperfect" implementation. Intel led, AMD followed. Compare that to now...AMD introduces 64-bit extensions, Intel follows. It is no surprise that AMD is on its way to being a TRUE sales leader.
What this says is that AMD is making serious inroads on Intel. Just a few years ago, AMD beating Intel at anything, by any metric, would have been laughable.
I just don't think it would be the same staring at an iPod while walking down the street rather than carrying it around face-out just so everyone can see that YUO ARE KEWL.
How are people going to look cool without blazing white earbuds?
"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from."
The suffering part is much more true than they would have intended. Without the bad times, the good times in your life seem like the same gelatinous goo as the times you don't remember. You define happiness by your previous unhappiness.
Maybe we can all afford it once we get to Kurzweil's Utopia!
I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of buying a CD...Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of wallet emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. The purchase of another inane piece of polycarbonate passed off as music. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. The RIAA sense my power, and they seek money. I do not avoid music, Mandrake...but I do deny them my money.
Do you realize that in addition to P2P-ing music, why, there are studies underway to P2P video, software, news, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
My whole point is not that something can't be done, it's that something WON'T be done until there is absolutely no other choice. Without huge government mandates, there will be no energy efficient cars, no insulation, no ventilation, and no infrastructure built. The vast majority of the population of the US says "What's in it for me?" and if it doesn't involve a new big screen TV or a shiny SUV, they aren't interested. I agree completely that it's the US attitude that holds things back, but with the country becoming a "Hyperpower" thanks to oil, I don't see that changing.
If it appears that I am straw-manning, then that points out how stupid the whole argument is. Where do you suppose we get 9 million barrels of gasoline per day? By growing plants, of course? What powers the tractors that plow the ground, the trucks that transport it, the barges that haul it? Right now, anyway, it's good ol' hydrocarbons, pumped out of the ground. There is no infrastructure in place to make that much ethanol, bio-diesel, and soy-oil. I know that you want me to say "Yes, jack up the price of oil and make those soccer moms pay!"...but I wish to point out the general ignorance of the US public. They will vote for whoever allows them to maintain their SUV-driving lifestyle, plain and simple. Perhaps when rappers cruise around in diamond-encrusted Honda Insights, the attitude will change.