For home users, a typical NAT based network might be a router (192.168.0.1) and multiple devices at 192.168.0.2, 0.3,..0.4, etc...
Under IPV6, if I understand it right, all those computers would/could have their own IPs, accessable to the open internet. I guess I don't understand the distinction anymore of what's considered on a LAN and what's not, if all computers have static IPs open to the world. How does the LAN shortform come into play if all the computers on all the home networks have their own static IPs?
"Any version of IP is not meant to be easy for YOU to read, they are made for COMPUTERS"
The XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX format was not only easy for people to read, but it was also (under NAT networks) the same everywhere. Everyone's home routers are 192.168.0.1, which makes troubleshooting easy... I really don't know how all this is going to work under V6 if every device can have unique IPs.
Volcanic eruptions are so 1980. Let's have some kind of impact with a comet or something. That should provide way more stuff to block out the sun. Should be really cool after that, and it wouldn't take yet another a boring volcanic eruption.
I think we can all agree that selling a "expansion" - whether it be on steroids or not - for $50+ is a nasty precedent and it should not be supported.
I have a CoH account that I haven't played in a very long time, probably since WoW came out. I don't have it installed anymore, and I probably won't play it again.
For me, and my friends that have never played CoH, getting CoV isn't really an expansion. If it's a full stand-alone game, why aren't they entitled to charge the full $50 for it?
I think they could give a discount to existing CoH players, but if buying CoV activates my old CoH account, that's a pretty good deal, IMO.
I was thinking more along the lines of consumer-created disks wear and tear and bit rot, and the other issues that plague the media that people use to back up their data.
Thus the pursuit of more durable, longer lasting storage media goes on...
But here comes Microsoft, trying to make shorter lasting storage media?
Preservatives, scratch resistant, stronger, longer lasting, etc... Everything these days is supposed to last longer...... Why spend all this time and effort to make something last only once, when it should last forever??
"Obviously some people would rather show off thier ignorance than bother looking something up."
"Squib: A brief satirical or witty writing or speech, such as a lampoon.
A short, sometimes humorous piece in a newspaper or magazine, usually used as a filler." http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Squib+
The entire system uses technology and engineering methods that have been widely used world-wide for years, and sometimes GENERATIONS (reverse-flow system, electromagnets, mag-lev tracks, autolifting bodies, capacitors, static electricity generation).
Obviously the technology is around here somewhere, probably keeping the black helicopters in the sky and powering the security fences around Area 51.
I think you get the plans for this technology when you order a Cold Fusion generator and a pair of X-Ray glasses from a Boy's Life magazine.
They're suing her for thousands of dollars for 'allegedly' copying songs, of somewhat apocryphal damages. To get out of this, she might have to pay it, or spend thousands in laywer fees, regardless of her guilt. If I speed down the highway, I endanger innocent human lives. If cought in Texas, I can attend a 2 evening class, and completely evade a speeding ticket. I only pay about 50 bucks in paperwork fees to the local court clerk.
I was hoping this was a review about a new game that would send rampaging hordes of congressional oversight comities against the feeble defenses of the break room of your game development headquarters.
As you defend your territory and caffeine sources from governors, senators, and congressmen, you would work your way to the end level bosses: the Special Interest Groups. Concerned Parents would invade and attempt to use the 'Think of the Children' bombs to EMP blast the gaming community into the stone age.
Ooops. Misspoke. I was in the 'remote control looking device = IR' state of mind kinda thing.
I have one of their RF WaveBird (?) controllers. I didn't like that one and I gathered that it was one of the better ones at the time.
I guess I can't say I don't like wireless controllers, because I love my cordless mouse, but the receiver is a foot away from it. If Nintendo's controller can work as well from 6 feet from the receiver, then I could give it try. I remember getting rather frustrated with the wireless Nintendo controller lag getting me killed at random times. No, Really! It was the controller!
This is what I'm talking about. It's ambiguous. Did I try to give her my banana too often? Not enough? Was she displeased with the banana itself? Or did she just enjoy flinging excrement and eating villagers?
Attempting to evolve the concept of visual feedback is a noble goal, but there are times when a simple informative display can save your banana when angry girlfriends want to fling villagers and excrement at it.
"I think the human mind is pretty adept at figuring out the status of things without menus showing everything... we've been doing pretty good without them up untill the last what... 25 years?"
I wish my last girlfriend had a better status meter above her head or a control panel of some sort. Making gestures at her just seemed to make her mad. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell exactly how mad until she flung some poop at me and left.
If she only had a nice indicator panel to show me just how mad she was... My mind is rather worthless at figuring out the status of things, especially the mood of things without a number or gauge showing everything.
That's something I missed in the first B&W. When I slapped around my pet, I wanted to see exactly what that meant to him immediately. I don't recall seeing detailed feedback, other than he might have eaten some of my villagers later. This might have been a random act or a response to my beating... which made me wonder how to properly dicipline the beast.
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Thus my CYA qualifiers: "...typical NAT based network might be a router..."
For home users, a typical NAT based network might be a router (192.168.0.1) and multiple devices at 192.168.0.2, 0.3, ..0.4, etc...
Under IPV6, if I understand it right, all those computers would/could have their own IPs, accessable to the open internet.
I guess I don't understand the distinction anymore of what's considered on a LAN and what's not, if all computers have static IPs open to the world.
How does the LAN shortform come into play if all the computers on all the home networks have their own static IPs?
"Any version of IP is not meant to be easy for YOU to read, they are made for COMPUTERS"
The XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX format was not only easy for people to read, but it was also (under NAT networks) the same everywhere. Everyone's home routers are 192.168.0.1, which makes troubleshooting easy... I really don't know how all this is going to work under V6 if every device can have unique IPs.
Stop that.
This V6 voodoo gives me nightmares.
Unless my host file grows to be the size of Montana...
Do host files and IPITAV6 work together anyway?
Besides, this is going to make my "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" shirt obsolete in 10 years!
I'll have to get one with colons in it!
Jeeze...
Volcanic eruptions are so 1980. Let's have some kind of impact with a comet or something.
That should provide way more stuff to block out the sun. Should be really cool after that, and it wouldn't take yet another a boring volcanic eruption.
If there's a smaller one, I got dibs on the name! The "Pico Pod"!
I don't suppose an "iPod Femto" will even be visible to the naked eye.
They have a soul?
I have a CoH account that I haven't played in a very long time, probably since WoW came out. I don't have it installed anymore, and I probably won't play it again.
For me, and my friends that have never played CoH, getting CoV isn't really an expansion. If it's a full stand-alone game, why aren't they entitled to charge the full $50 for it?
I think they could give a discount to existing CoH players, but if buying CoV activates my old CoH account, that's a pretty good deal, IMO.
I was thinking more along the lines of consumer-created disks wear and tear and bit rot, and the other issues that plague the media that people use to back up their data.
I want that 20th anniversary shirt he's wearing in the interview pics.
Where can I get one?
"DVDs do eventually wear out."
Thus the pursuit of more durable, longer lasting storage media goes on...
But here comes Microsoft, trying to make shorter lasting storage media?
Preservatives, scratch resistant, stronger, longer lasting, etc...
Everything these days is supposed to last longer......
Why spend all this time and effort to make something last only once, when it should last forever??
Divx isn't dead.
He's just become a mean drunken lush.
"Squib: A brief satirical or witty writing or speech, such as a lampoon.
A short, sometimes humorous piece in a newspaper or magazine, usually used as a filler."
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Squib+
Reminder to self: keep humor very, very simple.
Obviously the technology is around here somewhere, probably keeping the black helicopters in the sky and powering the security fences around Area 51.
I think you get the plans for this technology when you order a Cold Fusion generator and a pair of X-Ray glasses from a Boy's Life magazine.
I like the bit about squib-releases.
What's a squib, anyway? When you release one into the wild, does it mate with the local population and cause genetic mutations?
How much damage has this woman 'allegedly' cost this massive corporation?
3 43251
When the artists themselves are posting workarounds to allow the consumers to bypass the RIAA copy protection, how can this be proper?
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/19/0
They're suing her for thousands of dollars for 'allegedly' copying songs, of somewhat apocryphal damages. To get out of this, she might have to pay it, or spend thousands in laywer fees, regardless of her guilt.
If I speed down the highway, I endanger innocent human lives. If cought in Texas, I can attend a 2 evening class, and completely evade a speeding ticket. I only pay about 50 bucks in paperwork fees to the local court clerk.
And this is proper.
I was hoping this was a review about a new game that would send rampaging hordes of congressional oversight comities against the feeble defenses of the break room of your game development headquarters.
As you defend your territory and caffeine sources from governors, senators, and congressmen, you would work your way to the end level bosses: the Special Interest Groups. Concerned Parents would invade and attempt to use the 'Think of the Children' bombs to EMP blast the gaming community into the stone age.
But I guess it wasn't about that.
"...to release RF controllers..."
Ooops. Misspoke. I was in the 'remote control looking device = IR' state of mind kinda thing.
I have one of their RF WaveBird (?) controllers.
I didn't like that one and I gathered that it was one of the better ones at the time.
I guess I can't say I don't like wireless controllers, because I love my cordless mouse, but the receiver is a foot away from it.
If Nintendo's controller can work as well from 6 feet from the receiver, then I could give it try.
I remember getting rather frustrated with the wireless Nintendo controller lag getting me killed at random times.
No, Really! It was the controller!
That might work. That new Zelda game might be good with that sort of control... :(
But most other games don't have that sort of control scheme.
I hope they release a wired version.
I hate IR game controllers.
Maybe they'll just let us plug in our gameboys again.
You can come complain about him on my IdiotSlashdotPostersDotCom website, and if I'm ordered to take it down, I'm starting up JudgesThatSuckDotCom.
This is what I'm talking about. It's ambiguous.
Did I try to give her my banana too often? Not enough? Was she displeased with the banana itself?
Or did she just enjoy flinging excrement and eating villagers?
Attempting to evolve the concept of visual feedback is a noble goal, but there are times when a simple informative display can save your banana when angry girlfriends want to fling villagers and excrement at it.
"I think the human mind is pretty adept at figuring out the status of things without menus showing everything... we've been doing pretty good without them up untill the last what... 25 years?"
I wish my last girlfriend had a better status meter above her head or a control panel of some sort. Making gestures at her just seemed to make her mad. Unfortunately, I couldn't tell exactly how mad until she flung some poop at me and left.
If she only had a nice indicator panel to show me just how mad she was... My mind is rather worthless at figuring out the status of things, especially the mood of things without a number or gauge showing everything.
That's something I missed in the first B&W.
When I slapped around my pet, I wanted to see exactly what that meant to him immediately. I don't recall seeing detailed feedback, other than he might have eaten some of my villagers later. This might have been a random act or a response to my beating... which made me wonder how to properly dicipline the beast.
The review suggests it's more a tie-in to the comic legend than the recent movie.
I don't think the movie had enough non-drama material to lend to a game.
Was it wrong to envision someone getting smashed in the head with falling microwave ovens?