2^128: think a planet, the size of earth, made of only sand, 1 cubic mm grains. now think 300 planets. that's 2^128 grains of sand. do you get the picture now?
wanna calculate? calculate the volume of a 40.000km circunference sphere, in cubic milimeters. divide 2^128 in that. result? roughly 300.
if the earth was a ball made of only sand particles 1x1x1mm (no mantle, crust, oceans or core, just sand), 2^128 is the number of sand grains in 300 earths.
I have a comic book store. I sell paper books with yaoi manga, and believe me, *ALL* my yaoi customers are girls, mostly 16-20 years old. And I see them at conventions too, and it's scary how many of them are out there.
OK, let's stop for a bit (see what i did there?). Digital signals are susceptible to interference. Media is the most important factor in this. Media, be it a cable, wireless, light, or any other medium, is always analog - simply because we live in an analog universe. Analog signals are more prone to *visible* interference, because you cannot transmit more data than what's going to be displayed. In digital, you can add more data (see FEC), which will be processed at the receiving end, and a better signal might be reconstructed even if some data blocks are missing. Digital signals are particularly difficult to transmit, because of how the media reacts to them. First, and most important factor, is cable capacitance. It puts hell of a load on the transmitter side because it needs to "charge and discharge" the cable which acts as a capacitor. Another big issue with transmitting on cables are reflections. Terminations are very important, and the shape, size, pin spacing and lots of other physical properties of the connector and circuit board are dictated by that. Jitter is a problem with some protocols too. Digital signals are subject to degradation too. A scratched DVD or solar interference on the upper atmosphere (which creates a shield between satellites and the earth) appears as as a "blocky picture". Sometimes you can get audio and blocky video, sometimes you get a picture and "chirps" and "pops" in the audio channel.
But in short, HDMI cables have enough bandwidth headroom in their specification that you can save a lot in materials and still get a signal good enough for most real-life applications.
Google has offices in my country. They're for selling ads ONLY. Maybe a little development too but I doubt it.
They're happy to comply with local laws when they're getting an immediate revenue. They're just not so keen on it when they need to spend a little in advertising themselves (I haven't even seen Chrome ads on TV), or even invest in hardware (Google Voice).
Sure, if by "worldwide" you mean UK, France, Germany, Austrialia, Germany.
Google is a US company that offers all of their services in the US and only search, maps, and mail outside the US. They do offer some extra services to other countries, especially UK, but they don't really care about the rest of the world.
It's a shame, but that's how it works for us non-Americans. Especially people from the third world like myself. I'm tired of getting snail-mail spam from google, for $50 worth of Adsense, and not be able to get, say, Google Voice. Or Local (even though google really wants my location in my android phone). Or any other service really.
Sure, they claim there are licensing issues, local laws, etc. That's all bullshit. It's simple: they're US based, and the US market is so big there is no need to expand to the rest of the world.
I don't expect to see this service enabled for any country south of the equator, except Australia.
What you have, when you are walking down the street, is a reasonable expectation that a cop isn't going to stop you at random and check all your pockets for cocaine. But not always--there are different rules at the border, at places that are the functional equivalent of the border, etc...
That's exactly what I'm saying. Of course, unless you're doing something weird - like stealing, pickpocketing, or things like that, a cop is not likely to search you. But if they do stop you, first of all they pick the first random person walking nearby and ask them to be a witness (you can't refuse that,it's one of your obligations as a citizen). They will go through your things and pockets in front of that random person, and will make an inventory. Usually, if you haven't committed a crime, they will take you downtown for "investigación de antecedentes" (background check). If you have, you will be "detenido".
Article 18 of our constitution also grants us several rights. And you, foreigner, too, as per article 20. I'll copypaste the relevant articles, you can translate them with google or something:
Art. 18.- Ningún habitante de la Nación puede ser penado sin juicio previo fundado en ley anterior al hecho del proceso, ni juzgado por comisiones especiales, o sacado de los jueces designados por la ley antes del hecho de la causa. Nadie puede ser obligado a declarar contra sí mismo; ni arrestado sino en virtud de orden escrita de autoridad competente. Es inviolable la defensa en juicio de la persona y de los derechos. El domicilio es inviolable, como también la correspondencia epistolar y los papeles privados; y una ley determinará en qué casos y con qué justificativos podrá procederse a su allanamiento y ocupación. Quedan abolidos para siempre la pena de muerte por causas políticas, toda especie de tormento y los azotes. Las cárceles de la Nación serán sanas y limpias, para seguridad y no para castigo de los reos detenidos en ellas, y toda medida que a pretexto de precaución conduzca a mortificarlos más allá de lo que aquélla exija, hará responsable al juez que la autorice.
Note that there is a decree that gives internet communications the same protection as postal mail.
Art. 20.- Los extranjeros gozan en el territorio de la Nación de todos los derechos civiles del ciudadano; pueden ejercer su industria, comercio y profesión; poseer bienes raíces, comprarlos y enajenarlos; navegar los ríos y costas; ejercer libremente su culto; testar y casarse conforme a las leyes. No están obligados a admitir la ciudadanía, ni a pagar contribuciones forzosas extraordinarias. Obtienen nacionalización residiendo dos años continuos en la Nación; pero la autoridad puede acortar este término a favor del que lo solicite, alegando y probando servicios a la República.
Maybe it's because I'm from a different country, or maybe I'm missing your point. What's the problem with checkpoints? I don't know what kind of law enforcement is Immigration in the USA. Here in Argentina we have:
Police forces: Federal and Local police. Military forces: Army/Navy/Air force (for war) and Gendarmeria (military-like "police" because it acts within the country in non-war time).
Gendarmeria takes care of smuggling, drug traffic, protecting bridges, roads, etc. They are the ones who will search your car at a random checkpoint. Local police usually has checkpoints in and out of the province, but they usually stop trucks (especially if carrying livestock), to check if everything is in order. SOMETIMES they stop you and ask where you're going, write it down, and tell you to go on. I suppose they do some kind of statistics with that because they just write down your destination. Very randomly they ask for your car's papers and your license.
Now, to me it's naive NOT to expect that a law enforcement agent - be it a police officer or gendarme, will completely ignore the fact that you're carrying drugs (if drugs are illegal to possess), smuggling things, or hell, even ignore that dead body in your trunk. Maybe it's because how things work at my country - we don't have a separate "immigration police". The police forces are one - they might have branches specializing in other areas but they're still police officers (or gendarmes) and if you're breaking the law, you will get arrested. Sure, police are usually more flexible down here. They will usually not lecture you or give you trouble. If you're smuggling, say, a DVD player from another country (I live near Paraguay, smuggling electronic gadgets was very common in the late 80s), they don't give a fuck: they have more important things to do, like dealing with people smugglers.
I really don't know how the US system works: state police, troopers, rangers, highway patrol, us marshals, county police, fbi, secret service, cia, dea, atf... so complex, why? I don't really know if that's real, I just see all that in movies. I think it's the american way of thinking like lawyers. "Technically, it's not illegal", or claiming that evidence of your smuggling wasn't obtained legally because the cops were looking for illegal immigrants, not drugs. That's really naive if you ask me. Sure, you can explain all that to the judge, but for the cop there and then, you're a smuggler and you will be detained. You have the right to remain silent. Everything you say can and will be used against you, etc (BTW, we don't have that line here).
I don't know about the US, but here, if you're a citizen, you can't leave the country with more than $10,000 USD in cash. Yes, you can take the money out of the country, just not in cash. But yes, you can fly with a suitcase with $5M in cash if you want, as long as it's not an international flight.
Seriously (not trolling, I'm really asking), why would you expect that, if you're smuggling stuff, or have a few grams of cocaine on you, you can walk freely all over the country? I mean if the thing is illegal to do, posses, traffic or whatever, why do you expect that you can get away with it? Are you expecting the judge to believe you had a "reasonable expectation" that you weren't going to be arrested?
"Electronic wallets" have been in use in Japan for ages. Contactless pre-paid cards are being used to pay for subway, vending machines, and many other things for which you would need coins.
"Information superhighway" was something coined by Bill Gates in one of his books. The ideas in that book were pretty advanced for the time. He also spoke about the "electronic wallet" (illustrated with Gates' own cheesy drawings), something that took form for us today in the shape of cell phones instead of wallets. He also made clear that the information superhighway was not the internet, but a faster network, that ALSO included internet services. And the ability of interactive "product placement" a la Augmented Reality: watch a movie, see the character's clock... nice, give me more info, computer! And it showed you what it was and how much it costed. The ideas in that book were good, but also scary in the sense that everything was about selling stuff.
You know what's worse than cyberspace and superhighway? "Internet Portal". Something that journalists in my country love to talk about. Any website is a "Portal".
That's rubbish. They merely offer recommendations based on how you rate stuff. Here's the shocker for you, you can ignore them or even flag as "not interested".
So remind me again, why is channel surfing so great?
Because if I wasn't channel surfing one day, I wouldn't have landed on Encuentro (the government's educational channel - half its programming is BBC documentaries), and I wouldn't have watched Spirited Away (anime - I always HATED anime because I thought it was about fighting, like Dragon Ball), and I would have never been interested in learning japanese, starting a comic book shop, and make a few friends with the same interests.
Good for you. I know you're talking bullshit because I work for Philips and LG, and I know my stuff. And I know most of the world still measures screens in inches. Or hardassly "measures" in inches, but are really inch sizes.
1) 2G is pretty lame for a ZFS box. Seriously. Get more, now. Read some info on ZFS to know why. and 2) this discussion wasn't about storage, where do you get your stuff from anyway? Oh yes, torrents, of course. Streaming sites dont need shitloads of terabytes.
We aren't streaming-only, but we're streaming plus iTunes plus disc, and we've been doing less and less disc, to the point where I've fairly frequently sent discs back unwatched simply because I decided I wasn't that interested, and there was something better on iTunes or NetFlix. We might be an exceptional case though--we haven't had cable for about ten years, because it was too tempting to channel surf. With on-demand streaming and iTunes, you watch when you decide to watch, rather than being at the mercy of the schedule, which is a *huge* win. Plus, no commercials.
What's so bad about channel surfing? I was watching a documentary the other day, and they discussed Netflix's profiling, and how they send you things you will like to watch. You end up being more like you (the stereotype you), and never try things you might like, if you weren't you.
And this is the kind of documentary I would have never watched, if it wasn't just because I randomly landed on that channel.
Same with a "chick flick" I saw the other day. A silly movie but in the end I thought it was... cute, to put it some way. If I had to search for it, buffer it, etc... I would have never watched it.
That's why I'm not ditching cable anytime soon.
But of course, you're a smarter-than-average person who thinks for himself and doesn't need luck to find shows or movies to watch. You just read the description and reviews and decide if it's worth watching, right? I don't. I don't take anyone else's word. Even if someone tells me a movie is "bad", I watch it anyway. I don't need anyone telling me what to watch. And most of the time, "bad" movies aren't really bad - it's just silly people that don't understand them.
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And we have enough IPv6 to make 2.95x10^32 screens.
The number is almost 5x10^28 actually. 5 times more.
2^128: think a planet, the size of earth, made of only sand, 1 cubic mm grains. now think 300 planets. that's 2^128 grains of sand.
do you get the picture now?
wanna calculate? calculate the volume of a 40.000km circunference sphere, in cubic milimeters. divide 2^128 in that. result? roughly 300.
if the earth was a ball made of only sand particles 1x1x1mm (no mantle, crust, oceans or core, just sand), 2^128 is the number of sand grains in 300 earths.
why do we need nat? explain. i'd like to know.
GP is a troll. Don't bother answering to him, he just comments and goes away.
I have a comic book store. I sell paper books with yaoi manga, and believe me, *ALL* my yaoi customers are girls, mostly 16-20 years old. And I see them at conventions too, and it's scary how many of them are out there.
Here are some of the Yaoi titles I have:
http://www.arcanacomics.com.ar/coleccion/319
http://www.arcanacomics.com.ar/coleccion/199
http://www.arcanacomics.com.ar/coleccion/174
I think that's about it. BTW, they are sold out.
OK, let's stop for a bit (see what i did there?). Digital signals are susceptible to interference. Media is the most important factor in this. Media, be it a cable, wireless, light, or any other medium, is always analog - simply because we live in an analog universe.
Analog signals are more prone to *visible* interference, because you cannot transmit more data than what's going to be displayed. In digital, you can add more data (see FEC), which will be processed at the receiving end, and a better signal might be reconstructed even if some data blocks are missing.
Digital signals are particularly difficult to transmit, because of how the media reacts to them. First, and most important factor, is cable capacitance. It puts hell of a load on the transmitter side because it needs to "charge and discharge" the cable which acts as a capacitor. Another big issue with transmitting on cables are reflections. Terminations are very important, and the shape, size, pin spacing and lots of other physical properties of the connector and circuit board are dictated by that. Jitter is a problem with some protocols too.
Digital signals are subject to degradation too. A scratched DVD or solar interference on the upper atmosphere (which creates a shield between satellites and the earth) appears as as a "blocky picture". Sometimes you can get audio and blocky video, sometimes you get a picture and "chirps" and "pops" in the audio channel.
But in short, HDMI cables have enough bandwidth headroom in their specification that you can save a lot in materials and still get a signal good enough for most real-life applications.
does that work in Canada too?
Replace "Mac" for "Spam" in your previous post and you almost get this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Google has offices in my country. They're for selling ads ONLY. Maybe a little development too but I doubt it.
They're happy to comply with local laws when they're getting an immediate revenue. They're just not so keen on it when they need to spend a little in advertising themselves (I haven't even seen Chrome ads on TV), or even invest in hardware (Google Voice).
Blah, blah, I'm still waiting for other services. Like Voice, for starters.
Why do you post anonymous? Oh yes, because you're a troll.
Sure, if by "worldwide" you mean UK, France, Germany, Austrialia, Germany.
Google is a US company that offers all of their services in the US and only search, maps, and mail outside the US. They do offer some extra services to other countries, especially UK, but they don't really care about the rest of the world.
It's a shame, but that's how it works for us non-Americans. Especially people from the third world like myself. I'm tired of getting snail-mail spam from google, for $50 worth of Adsense, and not be able to get, say, Google Voice. Or Local (even though google really wants my location in my android phone). Or any other service really.
Sure, they claim there are licensing issues, local laws, etc. That's all bullshit. It's simple: they're US based, and the US market is so big there is no need to expand to the rest of the world.
I don't expect to see this service enabled for any country south of the equator, except Australia.
That's exactly what I'm saying. Of course, unless you're doing something weird - like stealing, pickpocketing, or things like that, a cop is not likely to search you. But if they do stop you, first of all they pick the first random person walking nearby and ask them to be a witness (you can't refuse that,it's one of your obligations as a citizen). They will go through your things and pockets in front of that random person, and will make an inventory. Usually, if you haven't committed a crime, they will take you downtown for "investigación de antecedentes" (background check). If you have, you will be "detenido".
Article 18 of our constitution also grants us several rights. And you, foreigner, too, as per article 20. I'll copypaste the relevant articles, you can translate them with google or something:
Note that there is a decree that gives internet communications the same protection as postal mail.
Maybe it's because I'm from a different country, or maybe I'm missing your point. What's the problem with checkpoints? I don't know what kind of law enforcement is Immigration in the USA. Here in Argentina we have:
Police forces: Federal and Local police.
Military forces: Army/Navy/Air force (for war) and Gendarmeria (military-like "police" because it acts within the country in non-war time).
Gendarmeria takes care of smuggling, drug traffic, protecting bridges, roads, etc. They are the ones who will search your car at a random checkpoint. Local police usually has checkpoints in and out of the province, but they usually stop trucks (especially if carrying livestock), to check if everything is in order. SOMETIMES they stop you and ask where you're going, write it down, and tell you to go on. I suppose they do some kind of statistics with that because they just write down your destination. Very randomly they ask for your car's papers and your license.
Now, to me it's naive NOT to expect that a law enforcement agent - be it a police officer or gendarme, will completely ignore the fact that you're carrying drugs (if drugs are illegal to possess), smuggling things, or hell, even ignore that dead body in your trunk. Maybe it's because how things work at my country - we don't have a separate "immigration police". The police forces are one - they might have branches specializing in other areas but they're still police officers (or gendarmes) and if you're breaking the law, you will get arrested. Sure, police are usually more flexible down here. They will usually not lecture you or give you trouble. If you're smuggling, say, a DVD player from another country (I live near Paraguay, smuggling electronic gadgets was very common in the late 80s), they don't give a fuck: they have more important things to do, like dealing with people smugglers.
I really don't know how the US system works: state police, troopers, rangers, highway patrol, us marshals, county police, fbi, secret service, cia, dea, atf... so complex, why? I don't really know if that's real, I just see all that in movies. I think it's the american way of thinking like lawyers. "Technically, it's not illegal", or claiming that evidence of your smuggling wasn't obtained legally because the cops were looking for illegal immigrants, not drugs. That's really naive if you ask me. Sure, you can explain all that to the judge, but for the cop there and then, you're a smuggler and you will be detained. You have the right to remain silent. Everything you say can and will be used against you, etc (BTW, we don't have that line here).
I don't know about the US, but here, if you're a citizen, you can't leave the country with more than $10,000 USD in cash. Yes, you can take the money out of the country, just not in cash. But yes, you can fly with a suitcase with $5M in cash if you want, as long as it's not an international flight.
Seriously (not trolling, I'm really asking), why would you expect that, if you're smuggling stuff, or have a few grams of cocaine on you, you can walk freely all over the country? I mean if the thing is illegal to do, posses, traffic or whatever, why do you expect that you can get away with it? Are you expecting the judge to believe you had a "reasonable expectation" that you weren't going to be arrested?
"Electronic wallets" have been in use in Japan for ages. Contactless pre-paid cards are being used to pay for subway, vending machines, and many other things for which you would need coins.
"Information superhighway" was something coined by Bill Gates in one of his books. The ideas in that book were pretty advanced for the time. He also spoke about the "electronic wallet" (illustrated with Gates' own cheesy drawings), something that took form for us today in the shape of cell phones instead of wallets. He also made clear that the information superhighway was not the internet, but a faster network, that ALSO included internet services. And the ability of interactive "product placement" a la Augmented Reality: watch a movie, see the character's clock... nice, give me more info, computer! And it showed you what it was and how much it costed. The ideas in that book were good, but also scary in the sense that everything was about selling stuff.
You know what's worse than cyberspace and superhighway? "Internet Portal". Something that journalists in my country love to talk about. Any website is a "Portal".
Whoosshhhhhhhhhhhh.
Because if I wasn't channel surfing one day, I wouldn't have landed on Encuentro (the government's educational channel - half its programming is BBC documentaries), and I wouldn't have watched Spirited Away (anime - I always HATED anime because I thought it was about fighting, like Dragon Ball), and I would have never been interested in learning japanese, starting a comic book shop, and make a few friends with the same interests.
Just saying.
And why do you assume that I'm american and it costs me $600+ per year?
Good for you. I know you're talking bullshit because I work for Philips and LG, and I know my stuff. And I know most of the world still measures screens in inches. Or hardassly "measures" in inches, but are really inch sizes.
1) 2G is pretty lame for a ZFS box. Seriously. Get more, now. Read some info on ZFS to know why.
and 2) this discussion wasn't about storage, where do you get your stuff from anyway? Oh yes, torrents, of course. Streaming sites dont need shitloads of terabytes.
So I was right, then.
We aren't streaming-only, but we're streaming plus iTunes plus disc, and we've been doing less and less disc, to the point where I've fairly frequently sent discs back unwatched simply because I decided I wasn't that interested, and there was something better on iTunes or NetFlix. We might be an exceptional case though--we haven't had cable for about ten years, because it was too tempting to channel surf. With on-demand streaming and iTunes, you watch when you decide to watch, rather than being at the mercy of the schedule, which is a *huge* win. Plus, no commercials.
What's so bad about channel surfing? I was watching a documentary the other day, and they discussed Netflix's profiling, and how they send you things you will like to watch. You end up being more like you (the stereotype you), and never try things you might like, if you weren't you.
And this is the kind of documentary I would have never watched, if it wasn't just because I randomly landed on that channel.
Same with a "chick flick" I saw the other day. A silly movie but in the end I thought it was... cute, to put it some way. If I had to search for it, buffer it, etc... I would have never watched it.
That's why I'm not ditching cable anytime soon.
But of course, you're a smarter-than-average person who thinks for himself and doesn't need luck to find shows or movies to watch. You just read the description and reviews and decide if it's worth watching, right? I don't. I don't take anyone else's word. Even if someone tells me a movie is "bad", I watch it anyway. I don't need anyone telling me what to watch. And most of the time, "bad" movies aren't really bad - it's just silly people that don't understand them.