Okay, found it. (Dumbass for replying to my own post, I know)
Steve Deering of Xerox PARC at an MIT Lecture:
"Many people thought that 64 bits for IPng addresses would not be enough. Some people seemed to think 64 bits could only hold numbers twice as large as today's 32 bits could, but mostly people were concerned there be enough address space for tomorrow's Internet toasters, wristwatches and automobiles. So we eventually settled on 128 bits, at which point no one had strong objections. It was then calculated that 2^128 was 1400 for every square angstrom on the surface of the Earth."
I remember when I first read about this, my friend sent me a quote from an MIT professor who was working on the IPv6 standard that was something like
"There seems to be an unspoken fear among the committee that there will only twice as many 64-bit addresses as there were 32-bit. 128 bits is absurd. That's 160 addresses for every square angstrom on the surface of the earth."
the "hundreds of billions" may come back to haunt soon, as "CBO also forecasts that the federal government will reach its $7.384 trillion debt limit in October. The U.S. Treasury has asked Congress to raise the borrowing ceiling for the third time in three years, a sensitive vote Republicans would like to avoid ahead of the election."
Give a little credit to Bush on the steel tariffs, though, since he only backed down at the end of an economic gun. Personally, why not a little trade war? We run a monthly trade deficit of $55 billion. The country could use a few less plasma TVs.
anyway, I was under the impression that our nuclear simulations were for the purpose of analyzing the effects of our old-school silos. Like, this missile's been sitting around for 35 years, what will happen when we actually go and try to blow something up with it?
Not as much using simulation to try to figure out how to make a cheaper or more deadly weapon.
Seriously, I wonder if that's ever the currency denomination referred to by internal budgeting people. The Ooss (pronounced ooze, meaning "out-of-state students").
As in, "Hey jim, I'm headin down to admishins, how muched those I-Paweds cost?"
I don't think you can generalize that because some of the stories are tin-foilistic, the entire list can be dismissed as mad scientist.
I could say the same thing about Fahrenheit 9/11... yeah, sure some of it is quacky, some of it is brutally relevant. Trying to generalize it to dismiss it will leave you bent over like an ostrich.
As far as the Oil Supplies Dwindling vs Nuke Plants Corrupt... what do you want? Nuke plants in our cars? You're talking about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie Time, baby! Apples and Oranges. And even if they weren't, asserting that Nuke plants are run corruptly doesn't contradict that Oil production has peaked. More close to the center of the target is that news reporters are supposed to report fact, and the facts regarding Saudi Oil are scarce. The actual capacity/production numbers ghawar oil field are very intentionally the closest guarded secrets in the Middle East. There's no external auditing, HA! Anyway, it's very interesting.
What happened to the small robots who will fight our future wars? Perhaps the draft is just for the building and maintenance crews... In any event, there's no need to worry, we'll all be safer once the robots are in charge.
It basically boils down to the fact that none of the original people developing NWN will be involved in this. Remember Infogrames bought Atari then started calling themselves "Atari", and have since crapped over all licenses they've inherited (except Unreal, but Epic probably runs itself by now).
Bioware I'm sure will keep as far away from this as they can, there's nothing they can do to prevent it from being crap... no offense to Obsidian, it's just that your publisher doesn't give a fuck whether anyone likes your game, just so long as they like the title.
So does this mean that advertisers are going to start buying up time in video games? Billboards telling me to drink Coke... or maybe even more intrusive -- every 15 minutes you have to sit through a minute of advertising. Could also drop the price of video games.
...why is everyone automatically believing an "anonymous e-mail?"
I understand your point... but what do you expect, a 100% verifiable PGP-signed email from a high-ranking microsoft employee?
It's the whole reason this has garnered so many damn slashdot postings -- nobody knows anything for sure, so we all get to talk about all the possibilities.
To say that "Games should be simple in order to be fun." is missing the more general "Games should have intuitive gameplay in order to be fun." It's what so many game developers miss that leads people to think that games aren't fun anymore because they're too complex.
I get your point about Tetris vs FMV, but there were plenty of versions that didn't focus on Gameplay but managed to be alright fun because the game was so simple. Only one version got everything right: Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris Classic was the only version with controls well-crafted enough to allow an expert Tetris player to play at a speed that was limited by the brain and not the fingers. AND it had scoring to encourage Tetrises.
So... say they sue us to protect the copyright. We say "Okay, prove to me that what I have downloaded is actually your source." Don't they then have to enter their source as evidence and thus make it public record. I mean sure, they still have the copyright but the content is now in the books for ever and ever. Right?
I think we've all had that same vision at some point or other... though it was ruined for me by a very polite electrical engineer friend who offered a 1-minute best-case scenario cost analysis.
It boils down to the reason why all broadband is run "over existing lines" -- cable, phone, home alarm (DSL), power grid. There's a whole lot of households out there.
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Just because Saturn has a whole lotta F-ring moons, you want to call them F-ring debris, like you're some big F-ring master of the universe.
I saw the modding on this was Interesting, and I'm like Interesting?, This is the funniest damn Chewbacca Defense of Open Source I've ever seen!
Steve Deering of Xerox PARC at an MIT Lecture:
"Many people thought that 64 bits for IPng addresses would not be enough. Some people seemed to think 64 bits could only hold numbers twice as large as today's 32 bits could, but mostly people were concerned there be enough address space for tomorrow's Internet toasters, wristwatches and automobiles. So we eventually settled on 128 bits, at which point no one had strong objections. It was then calculated that 2^128 was 1400 for every square angstrom on the surface of the Earth."
"There seems to be an unspoken fear among the committee that there will only twice as many 64-bit addresses as there were 32-bit. 128 bits is absurd. That's 160 addresses for every square angstrom on the surface of the earth."
which is apparently where they're headed.
At this point, DirectX is at least 4.5x better than OpenGL.
Give a little credit to Bush on the steel tariffs, though, since he only backed down at the end of an economic gun. Personally, why not a little trade war? We run a monthly trade deficit of $55 billion. The country could use a few less plasma TVs.
Or maybe which is the best country in the world?
Personally, I think it's America.
Not as much using simulation to try to figure out how to make a cheaper or more deadly weapon.
Or, you know, a spell-cheeker...
Seriously, I wonder if that's ever the currency denomination referred to by internal budgeting people. The Ooss (pronounced ooze, meaning "out-of-state students").
As in, "Hey jim, I'm headin down to admishins, how muched those I-Paweds cost?"
"Bout 75 ooze."
"Whoo-ey!"
Money ignores YOU!!!
I could say the same thing about Fahrenheit 9/11... yeah, sure some of it is quacky, some of it is brutally relevant. Trying to generalize it to dismiss it will leave you bent over like an ostrich.
As far as the Oil Supplies Dwindling vs Nuke Plants Corrupt... what do you want? Nuke plants in our cars? You're talking about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie Time, baby! Apples and Oranges. And even if they weren't, asserting that Nuke plants are run corruptly doesn't contradict that Oil production has peaked. More close to the center of the target is that news reporters are supposed to report fact, and the facts regarding Saudi Oil are scarce. The actual capacity/production numbers ghawar oil field are very intentionally the closest guarded secrets in the Middle East. There's no external auditing, HA! Anyway, it's very interesting.
What happened to the small robots who will fight our future wars? Perhaps the draft is just for the building and maintenance crews... In any event, there's no need to worry, we'll all be safer once the robots are in charge.
Since I relieve my stress by chilling out, listening to the $20 million worth of CDs I ripped onto my computer.
However, it might push the price to the upper end of the $249 - $billion range.
Funny, I just keep achieving the same thing over and over again...
Anyway, speaking of microsoft... Maybe we'll catch a stray typhoon or something over here in Seattle.
Bioware I'm sure will keep as far away from this as they can, there's nothing they can do to prevent it from being crap... no offense to Obsidian, it's just that your publisher doesn't give a fuck whether anyone likes your game, just so long as they like the title.
So does this mean that advertisers are going to start buying up time in video games? Billboards telling me to drink Coke... or maybe even more intrusive -- every 15 minutes you have to sit through a minute of advertising. Could also drop the price of video games.
I understand your point... but what do you expect, a 100% verifiable PGP-signed email from a high-ranking microsoft employee?
It's the whole reason this has garnered so many damn slashdot postings -- nobody knows anything for sure, so we all get to talk about all the possibilities.
I get your point about Tetris vs FMV, but there were plenty of versions that didn't focus on Gameplay but managed to be alright fun because the game was so simple. Only one version got everything right: Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris Classic was the only version with controls well-crafted enough to allow an expert Tetris player to play at a speed that was limited by the brain and not the fingers. AND it had scoring to encourage Tetrises.
So... say they sue us to protect the copyright. We say "Okay, prove to me that what I have downloaded is actually your source." Don't they then have to enter their source as evidence and thus make it public record. I mean sure, they still have the copyright but the content is now in the books for ever and ever. Right?
It boils down to the reason why all broadband is run "over existing lines" -- cable, phone, home alarm (DSL), power grid. There's a whole lot of households out there.
That's funny, I just sent in my absentee ballot for some state legislation and I'm pretty sure anyone who cared could have verified what I voted for.