And correct me if I'm wrong, but with dual stack, don't you generally try one addressing scheme first and then fail over to the second, if you can't reach the device? You try a DNSv6 lookup for your host, but you get a nack on that host name, so then you have to send a *second* DNS request, IPv4 this time, and wait for that response. IIRC, Vista did that by default, and people complained that Vista was a dog compared to XP until they learned to turn IPv6 off
The trick is to send an IPv4 request if you don't get a very rapid (300ms) turnround from IPv6, and then use whichever comes first. I think this logic is now applied in Firefox, etc., as well as Chrome.
Now go to street view. I bet you can count 200 signaled stop lights in those same maps.
This seems very unlikely in the Basingstoke example. In one mile of Oakridge Road there are twenty "intersections" between two roundabouts, but in every case the side road is a "Yield" ("Give Way" in UK terms). The only stop light you will see is actually on the easternmost roundabout. If you'd like another example of the relative numbers of traffic light intersections and roundabouts in the UK, try 300 Carmarthen Road, Swansea, to Maplin Electronics, Llanelli. There are 12 roundabouts (especially common in out-of-town shopping areas) and 10 traffic lights, though three of those are pedestrian crossings.
I think you are trying to interpret European maps (roundabouts, yields, traffic lights), with a North American perspective (stop signs and traffic lights). Just take a look at Guyancourt, outside Paris, with more than 20 roundabouts in less than 2.5 square miles.
Lets face it. Traffic circles are only used in a tiny percentage of all intersections,
This is true, because there are so many minor intersections around.
"Tea Party" is just a replacement term for "neo-con" because, after eight years of GWB, the majority of Americans finally figured out that "neo-cons" are the scum of the fucking earth.
I thought there was an announcement that the IPv4 address space is now totally exhausted. Or at least there are no new blocks to be assigned. The tunnel broker, Hurricane Electric indicates that IPv4 is exahusted.
Also, the just-in-time inventory fad where nobody actually stocks anything any more makes any disturbance like this much more critical.
You, the consumer, have complete power to override this "just-in-time inventory fad". Simply buy hard drives 6-12 months before you need them, and just-in-time becomes irrelevant to you. You can pat yourself on the back when supplies are low (right now), but you pay more on average when prices are dropping (the last ten years or so).
When the Antarctic treaty expires in the near future, then the ball will really go up for grabs since suddenly it'll be legal to declare Antarctica sovereign territory and to go after it's natural resources.
When does it expire? The Wikipedia article and the 1959 treaty make no mention of this.
Speaking as someone in the last stages of preparing content for publication, I'm seriously leaning towards dropping plans for a Kindle edition because of this.
Maybe you could tell us the name of your book? You give the impression that it has been very thoroughly researched, and provides an insightful look at something or other.
So they'll get it to 61ms. The speed of light from London to New York is 18.6ms by my calcs. Can anyone summarize as a list of the major percentages what makes up the rest of the 40ms?
That is because 61ms is the round trip time, not the one-way time. I've just done some pings on one of the olde worlde transatlantic cables and I saw 68.3ms round trip time. The difference between 61ms and 37.2ms is mostly from comparing the speed of light in a vacuum (3e8m/s) to the speed of light in a fiber (~2e8m/s). See the wikipedia article
Would you prefer it texas style, where we there are no ballot measures?
That may be a good idea for a "Proposition Z" - "We, the people, agree to stop stupidly micromanaging, and will instead set general direction by voting in a new government every few years".
Actually, when we looked at this a few years ago cyclists killed about as many people per passenger mile as motorists. In the UK, anyway
That seems somewhat unlikely. Who is "we" and do you have the figures on a website? Also passenger miles are misleading, as I could drive 200 miles to the NEC and the only place I am likely to kill any pedestrians is in the first and last mile. That would reduce the car figures by a factor of 100 compared to the 2 mile cycle ride in a city. Cars with passengers reduce your car statistic even further, and the calculation seems to favor cyclists on tandems in some bizarre way.
The figures for cyclists killing pedestrians on UK sidewalks seem to be about 0.3 per year, compared to more than 500 pedestrians killed by motorists every year.
Because apple buys all the manufacturing capacity. I work at a company that has close ties to the phone industry and they're having a really hard time getting components. One of the techniques Apple supposedly (hearsay, no citation) uses is to offer a manufacturer a bunch of money to help them re-tool or build a new plant and in exchange Apple gets exclusive rights to the output of the plant for some amount of time.
AOL's billboard on Highway 101 doesn't even promise a great career. Apparently you just have to join them before your boss does. Therefore even a vague estimate of "when hell freezes over" should be good enough to set your timetable for moving there.
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You can count on it getting the job done, one way or another.
one way - correctly copying your binary files
another - corrupting them if you are in ASCII mode by mistake
So parent is correct - it works one way or another!
That's a great point. Driverless cars could also be a big gain for other road users, like cyclists. It's frustrating to see so many drivers who don't give a clear signal of which way they are turning, or who think they don't need lights after the first glimmer of dawn. Just a few lines of program logic could propel a driverless car to the 98th percentile of driver courtesy.
On the other hand, when I cycle up to one set of traffic lights in my town, the cross street signal changes from green to red. My light stays at red though, as the system decides that I probably don't exist and changes the cross street straight back to green again. So maybe I am a bit scared of automated stuff.
Yes, the CO2 emissions from a diesel look higher, but a large amount of that is due to the engine burning the fuel completely and having less CO. CO isn't considered a greenhouse gas (it isn't listed in the IPCC Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing report), so it doesn't matter. This is where 'carbon pollution' has ended up arse over tit: the carbon gases that will kill you are not considered pollution, and the ones that you can breath are pollution. Go figure.
Small diesels are now popular in Australia (despite being raped by the oil companies and paying more per litre than petrol -- the opposite of most countries). The VW Golf 118TSI Comfortline is a 1.4l 'twincharge' petrol with 118kW and 240Nm and the Golf GTD is a 2.0l turbo diesel with 125kW and 350Nm, so these are roughly equivalent in performance. With a DSG gearbox the 118TSI has emissions of 144g/km of CO2 and the GTD has emissions of 152g/km of CO2 -- but there is no mention of CO.
At least in Europe, CO emissions have been limited to 1g/km since 2005. This would be 1.6g/km after oxidizing it to CO2, so your CO theory does not account for much of the difference in CO2 emission.
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And correct me if I'm wrong, but with dual stack, don't you generally try one addressing scheme first and then fail over to the second, if you can't reach the device? You try a DNSv6 lookup for your host, but you get a nack on that host name, so then you have to send a *second* DNS request, IPv4 this time, and wait for that response. IIRC, Vista did that by default, and people complained that Vista was a dog compared to XP until they learned to turn IPv6 off
This problem was solved in time for last year's IPv6 test day (June 8th, 2011) - http://www.conceivablytech.com/7616/products/google-preps-chrome-for-ipv6-test-day
The trick is to send an IPv4 request if you don't get a very rapid (300ms) turnround from IPv6, and then use whichever comes first. I think this logic is now applied in Firefox, etc., as well as Chrome.
If your so worried about night vision, then why not invest in an eye patch?
Arrrrr!! Write "you're" next time, or face a keelhaulin', ye scurvy dog!
The U.S. had some unmanned missions before the manned one but none of them managed to land.
Not true. The Surveyor program had seven missions in 1966-68, of which five landed.
Now go to street view. I bet you can count 200 signaled stop lights in those same maps.
This seems very unlikely in the Basingstoke example. In one mile of Oakridge Road there are twenty "intersections" between two roundabouts, but in every case the side road is a "Yield" ("Give Way" in UK terms). The only stop light you will see is actually on the easternmost roundabout. If you'd like another example of the relative numbers of traffic light intersections and roundabouts in the UK, try 300 Carmarthen Road, Swansea, to Maplin Electronics, Llanelli. There are 12 roundabouts (especially common in out-of-town shopping areas) and 10 traffic lights, though three of those are pedestrian crossings.
I think you are trying to interpret European maps (roundabouts, yields, traffic lights), with a North American perspective (stop signs and traffic lights). Just take a look at Guyancourt, outside Paris, with more than 20 roundabouts in less than 2.5 square miles.
Lets face it. Traffic circles are only used in a tiny percentage of all intersections,
This is true, because there are so many minor intersections around.
... bonchski is astroturfed by YOU!
"Tea Party" is just a replacement term for "neo-con" because, after eight years of GWB, the majority of Americans finally figured out that "neo-cons" are the scum of the fucking earth.
They seem to be very different. Take a look at the bullet point summary of neo-conservatism in this article - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7825039.stm
Aren't they producing a TV show now? (pretty sure I saw a ./ article on that a few days ago)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(U.S._TV_series)
tl;dr version: Netflix outbid HBO and AMC. Kevin Spacey is the star. It's based on a great BBC series from 1990.
I thought there was an announcement that the IPv4 address space is now totally exhausted. Or at least there are no new blocks to be assigned. The tunnel broker, Hurricane Electric indicates that IPv4 is exahusted.
The announcement - http://www.nro.net/news/ipv4-free-pool-depleted - was made when IANA, the central authority, ran out of addresses to give to the five regional internet registries. These regional registries will run out at different speeds. Geoff Huston's graph is very useful to see how fast this will happen - http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/plotend.png
Also, the just-in-time inventory fad where nobody actually stocks anything any more makes any disturbance like this much more critical.
You, the consumer, have complete power to override this "just-in-time inventory fad". Simply buy hard drives 6-12 months before you need them, and just-in-time becomes irrelevant to you. You can pat yourself on the back when supplies are low (right now), but you pay more on average when prices are dropping (the last ten years or so).
When the Antarctic treaty expires in the near future, then the ball will really go up for grabs since suddenly it'll be legal to declare Antarctica sovereign territory and to go after it's natural resources.
When does it expire? The Wikipedia article and the 1959 treaty make no mention of this.
I missed Bob getting outed. Got a link?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2437110&cid=37457272
If there was ever an article that should be tagged "What could possibly go wrong?" it's this one...
And here's what has already gone wrong: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/355394.stm
Many modern English speakers use "begging the question" to demonstrate their over-reliance on clichés
FTFY
So a company with the bargaining power of Amazon makes a new product, and can't get the price down $10 more?
With twenty pointy-haired bosses saying this, they could get the price to zero!
Speaking as someone in the last stages of preparing content for publication, I'm seriously leaning towards dropping plans for a Kindle edition because of this.
Maybe you could tell us the name of your book? You give the impression that it has been very thoroughly researched, and provides an insightful look at something or other.
So they'll get it to 61ms. The speed of light from London to New York is 18.6ms by my calcs. Can anyone summarize as a list of the major percentages what makes up the rest of the 40ms?
That is because 61ms is the round trip time, not the one-way time. I've just done some pings on one of the olde worlde transatlantic cables and I saw 68.3ms round trip time. The difference between 61ms and 37.2ms is mostly from comparing the speed of light in a vacuum (3e8m/s) to the speed of light in a fiber (~2e8m/s). See the wikipedia article
Would you prefer it texas style, where we there are no ballot measures?
That may be a good idea for a "Proposition Z" - "We, the people, agree to stop stupidly micromanaging, and will instead set general direction by voting in a new government every few years".
Actually, when we looked at this a few years ago cyclists killed about as many people per passenger mile as motorists. In the UK, anyway
That seems somewhat unlikely. Who is "we" and do you have the figures on a website? Also passenger miles are misleading, as I could drive 200 miles to the NEC and the only place I am likely to kill any pedestrians is in the first and last mile. That would reduce the car figures by a factor of 100 compared to the 2 mile cycle ride in a city. Cars with passengers reduce your car statistic even further, and the calculation seems to favor cyclists on tandems in some bizarre way.
The figures for cyclists killing pedestrians on UK sidewalks seem to be about 0.3 per year, compared to more than 500 pedestrians killed by motorists every year.
Because apple buys all the manufacturing capacity. I work at a company that has close ties to the phone industry and they're having a really hard time getting components. One of the techniques Apple supposedly (hearsay, no citation) uses is to offer a manufacturer a bunch of money to help them re-tool or build a new plant and in exchange Apple gets exclusive rights to the output of the plant for some amount of time.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/07/06/1337204/How-Apple-Came-To-Control-the-Component-Market
It's not necessarily a bad thing, and other companies could make similar deals if they wanted to.
I was surprised to find that this was standardized in the same Act of Parliament that mandated 4' 8 1/2" in Britain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Regulation_(Gauge)_Act_1846
Pre-existing black holes aren't covered by the Universe's health insurance.
AOL's billboard on Highway 101 doesn't even promise a great career. Apparently you just have to join them before your boss does. Therefore even a vague estimate of "when hell freezes over" should be good enough to set your timetable for moving there.
You can count on it getting the job done, one way or another.
So parent is correct - it works one way or another!
That's a great point. Driverless cars could also be a big gain for other road users, like cyclists. It's frustrating to see so many drivers who don't give a clear signal of which way they are turning, or who think they don't need lights after the first glimmer of dawn. Just a few lines of program logic could propel a driverless car to the 98th percentile of driver courtesy.
On the other hand, when I cycle up to one set of traffic lights in my town, the cross street signal changes from green to red. My light stays at red though, as the system decides that I probably don't exist and changes the cross street straight back to green again. So maybe I am a bit scared of automated stuff.
Yes, the CO2 emissions from a diesel look higher, but a large amount of that is due to the engine burning the fuel completely and having less CO. CO isn't considered a greenhouse gas (it isn't listed in the IPCC Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing report), so it doesn't matter. This is where 'carbon pollution' has ended up arse over tit: the carbon gases that will kill you are not considered pollution, and the ones that you can breath are pollution. Go figure.
Small diesels are now popular in Australia (despite being raped by the oil companies and paying more per litre than petrol -- the opposite of most countries). The VW Golf 118TSI Comfortline is a 1.4l 'twincharge' petrol with 118kW and 240Nm and the Golf GTD is a 2.0l turbo diesel with 125kW and 350Nm, so these are roughly equivalent in performance. With a DSG gearbox the 118TSI has emissions of 144g/km of CO2 and the GTD has emissions of 152g/km of CO2 -- but there is no mention of CO.
At least in Europe, CO emissions have been limited to 1g/km since 2005. This would be 1.6g/km after oxidizing it to CO2, so your CO theory does not account for much of the difference in CO2 emission.