That's nice. Really it is. But other people have different priorities. And _every_ site should/must be usable without Javascript/flash/what have you (unless it's a Javascript/flash/what have you tech demo).
Why?
Some people just prefer it that way, like me. Others need this, like people who have to use screen readers, etc.
While you are right that with today's technology we can't do it, there are some things such as _likeliness_. 100 TiB on a thumb drive? Yah, we will prolly have that in a decade or three.
But...
> just put some super tough clear material over the top of the cells and you've dealt with the wear and tear
Clear implies a slick, non-permeable surface which is ideally self-cleaning. So you have lots of water on roads that are extremely slick to begin with. No idea about you, but I like to stay on the road instead of sliding into a painful death. Just a general preference. And when water is not an issue, you usually have sand. Sand that is pressed against said surface again, again and yet again, you are sure to scratch it at _some_ point.
If they were talking about harvesting excess heat in places like Texas, sure sign me up. Lots of sun and a dark surface to gobble it up. That works.
And even then, you have shearing of the material, vertical deformation and don't forget that good tarmac looks like a sponge with a drain below to get rid of the water.
You don't think anyone would accept a/64 route from you, do you? If any ISP announced their/32 in/64, they would take out their own routers and everyone else's who got (and accepted) the prefix list. We have about 280,000 IPv4 prefixes announced on the internet, today. The potential ISP above would announce 4,294,967,296 on their own. Not going to happen;)
> > I can't just decide to give my server the address 127.48.7.12 or 234.122.9.31 with IPv4, but that doesn't mean that I can't assign one within my address range. > Using NAT, you absolutely can. You're sacrificing the ability to communicate with those addresses in the wild, but that option definitely exists today.
127.0.0.0/8 is localhost. You can't use that for anything other than have processes on localhost talk to each other.
> I don't operate under the assumption that ISP's are going to hand out blocks of IPv6 addresses any more readily than they hand out IPv4's.
> Where the fuck do you live where you have more than 2 viable choices for an ISP?
I live in a tiny German town with approximately 2000 people in it and I would say there are about a dozen ISPs I can get DSL from.
> What universe do you live in where the "competition" would realistically compete on this feature?
Unless an ISP is forced not to give you more than n IPv6 addresses, they will give you a/64 for home connections,/48 for colocation, etc. Every LIR gets one/32, no matter how large they are. This means that there can be as many _large_ ISPs as you have IPv4 addresses _in total_ before you run out of IPv6 space. Every DSL customer has the current IPv4 address space timed the current IPv4 address space at their disposal. Colo customers have 2^16 times that. Every backwater ISP can have as many DSL customers as there are IPv4 addresses _in total_ before they run out.
Long story short: There are just so many IPv6 addresses, it literally does not fit into anyone's head. Humans are not geared to think in those dimensions.
Some "Gian" answered that in the _first_ comment [1] to said blog post so I will just quote him/her in full:
(I already posted this on the thread on HackerNews, but I decided to add it here as well for the purposes of discussion):
This seems to assume a fixed number of programmers, all of whom program during the week and at the weekend.
My guess would be that it's much more likely to be two largely disjoint sets:
Professional programmers at work during the week, and amateur programmers who have other day jobs (e.g. school or non-programming jobs) who are more likely to be programming during the weekends.
If we assume that this is the case, then the data simply suggests that professional programmers are more likely to use C# and Java, whereas hobbyist/amateur programmers are more likely to use Python or Ruby.
This is just a hypothesis, but it is equally well supported by the data as the article's hypothesis:
"programmers choose to use languages like Python and Ruby for their personal projects, despite their weaknesses, because these languages are more fun to program in"
Which assumes that all professional programmers are also hobbyist programmers in the weekends, and that the numbers of amateur programmers are not significant enough to make an impact on search statistics.
If someone managed to create a truly timeless and, excuse the use of an overused term, epic tale and forge that into a game, you can _always_ enjoy playing it.
In related news, Chrono Trigger is available for the DS. Waiting for Secret of Mana (and Seiken Denetsu 3), now.
...your "article" over 24 pages? Other submitters go to the trouble of linking a print page to spare us this crap and you link an ad-riddled pos like that on purpose? I don't say that often, but: fuck you.
> I'm not sure I follow your meaning. I pointed out specifically that converters are required in the US, because it is my understanding that they aren't required worldwide.
They are required in all first-world nations, most second-world nations and some developing countries are catching up fast. My point is that you limited specifically to the US, something which Europeans tend not to do in a matter like this.
> As for "matters" - well, laws passed in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe aren't likely to affect me, so I don't pay them any mind. Laws passed in the US are likely to affect me, so I pay attention. Is that somehow wrong, or even evil?
The DMCA does not affect me at all, yet I follow the developments closely. Again, it's a matter of perspective. You are neither wrong nor evil, but you _are_ proving that US citizens tend to disregard the rest of the world.
> I guess the key phrase in your post might be "seem to assume". Maybe your perspective is skewed.
Although I have been to the US twice, I have met only a very limited part of the overall population. While most of those encounters confirmed my assessment of How Much You Care, the test set is too small. Thus, I chose the term 'seem'. It reflects that this is the effect they are having over here without claiming that this is the case all the time.
You seem to have enough self-reflection to care about this so I suggest you try to monitor yourself and what you say & write for some time. If you detect a strong tendency to disregard the rest of the world you might want to change it. If you don't want to change, that's cool too but confirms the above. And even if you don't see any such tendency, it did not hurt and you proved me wrong.
> which is the reason catalytic converters are required on vehicles in the US.
Call me strange, but it has become a hobby of mine to find all the little ways in which US citizens seem to assume They Are The One Nation That Matters.
Generally speaking, a properly impregnated wooden house will last longer than a concrete one. An even the ones which were not impregnated will still have the large beam structure standing after burning down. That is because the outer wood burns, becomes coal and does not let enough oxygen to the wood so it can continue to burn.
Funny and here I was thinking that the "can't read" thing applies mostly to people who pretend to be open-minded and then go on peddling their petty prejudices. But not without pretending to be sorry and then applying their last witty thrust to the core of the poor sods Thou Happens Not To Like.
To be fair, if I sold records, my interest in releasing fewer records would be slim. Not saying that there wasn't a reason for them to do so of their own free will, but just food for thought.
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That's nice. Really it is. But other people have different priorities. And _every_ site should/must be usable without Javascript/flash/what have you (unless it's a Javascript/flash/what have you tech demo).
Why?
Some people just prefer it that way, like me.
Others need this, like people who have to use screen readers, etc.
While you are right that with today's technology we can't do it, there are some things such as _likeliness_. 100 TiB on a thumb drive? Yah, we will prolly have that in a decade or three.
But...
> just put some super tough clear material over the top of the cells and you've dealt with the wear and tear
Clear implies a slick, non-permeable surface which is ideally self-cleaning. So you have lots of water on roads that are extremely slick to begin with. No idea about you, but I like to stay on the road instead of sliding into a painful death. Just a general preference.
And when water is not an issue, you usually have sand. Sand that is pressed against said surface again, again and yet again, you are sure to scratch it at _some_ point.
If they were talking about harvesting excess heat in places like Texas, sure sign me up. Lots of sun and a dark surface to gobble it up. That works.
And even then, you have shearing of the material, vertical deformation and don't forget that good tarmac looks like a sponge with a drain below to get rid of the water.
You don't think anyone would accept a /64 route from you, do you? If any ISP announced their /32 in /64, they would take out their own routers and everyone else's who got (and accepted) the prefix list. We have about 280,000 IPv4 prefixes announced on the internet, today. The potential ISP above would announce 4,294,967,296 on their own. Not going to happen ;)
> > I can't just decide to give my server the address 127.48.7.12 or 234.122.9.31 with IPv4, but that doesn't mean that I can't assign one within my address range.
> Using NAT, you absolutely can. You're sacrificing the ability to communicate with those addresses in the wild, but that option definitely exists today.
127.0.0.0/8 is localhost. You can't use that for anything other than have processes on localhost talk to each other.
> I don't operate under the assumption that ISP's are going to hand out blocks of IPv6 addresses any more readily than they hand out IPv4's.
Do you have any idea how many IPv6 addresses there are? No? Go read http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1342389&cid=29167213 :)
> Where the fuck do you live where you have more than 2 viable choices for an ISP?
I live in a tiny German town with approximately 2000 people in it and I would say there are about a dozen ISPs I can get DSL from.
> What universe do you live in where the "competition" would realistically compete on this feature?
Unless an ISP is forced not to give you more than n IPv6 addresses, they will give you a /64 for home connections, /48 for colocation, etc. Every LIR gets one /32, no matter how large they are. This means that there can be as many _large_ ISPs as you have IPv4 addresses _in total_ before you run out of IPv6 space. Every DSL customer has the current IPv4 address space timed the current IPv4 address space at their disposal. Colo customers have 2^16 times that.
Every backwater ISP can have as many DSL customers as there are IPv4 addresses _in total_ before they run out.
Long story short: There are just so many IPv6 addresses, it literally does not fit into anyone's head. Humans are not geared to think in those dimensions.
Some "Gian" answered that in the _first_ comment [1] to said blog post so I will just quote him/her in full:
(I already posted this on the thread on HackerNews, but I decided to add it here as well for the purposes of discussion):
This seems to assume a fixed number of programmers, all of whom program during the week and at the weekend.
My guess would be that it's much more likely to be two largely disjoint sets:
Professional programmers at work during the week, and amateur programmers who have other day jobs (e.g. school or non-programming jobs) who are more likely to be programming during the weekends.
If we assume that this is the case, then the data simply suggests that professional programmers are more likely to use C# and Java, whereas hobbyist/amateur programmers are more likely to use Python or Ruby.
This is just a hypothesis, but it is equally well supported by the data as the article's hypothesis:
"programmers choose to use languages like Python and Ruby for their personal projects, despite their weaknesses, because these languages are more fun to program in"
Which assumes that all professional programmers are also hobbyist programmers in the weekends, and that the numbers of amateur programmers are not significant enough to make an impact on search statistics.
[1] http://danlorenc.blogspot.com/2009/08/stackoverflow-experiment-results.html?showComment=1250369874824#c5965860415709029932
If someone managed to create a truly timeless and, excuse the use of an overused term, epic tale and forge that into a game, you can _always_ enjoy playing it.
In related news, Chrono Trigger is available for the DS. Waiting for Secret of Mana (and Seiken Denetsu 3), now.
You get the cake, eat it and then put it back into the fridge.
1) No one cares about your source code. At least not the remote admins.
2) Either you have a real person under your direct control or you outsource.
3) If you want people to come on site, expect to pay for it.
4) If you want a real person or heavy contractual terms, expect to pay for it.
5) Seriously, no one cares about your source code. At least not the remote admins.
> Who cares? They're not endangered--eat up!
Yet!
Not everyone does it, but some do. I try to do the same when I submit stuff.
...your "article" over 24 pages? Other submitters go to the trouble of linking a print page to spare us this crap and you link an ad-riddled pos like that on purpose? I don't say that often, but: fuck you.
I remember reading this more than a year ago. Granted, that was in German news, but with the Internet and everything...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonquake
Tell basically the same story again and again, just replace almost everything in between. Works for them and for me :)
LTE aka Long Term Evolution is a stepping stone between 3G and 4G.
Claiming anything else is marketing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3GPP_Long_Term_Evolution
> Well, considering you are on Slashdot, a US centric,US based website....you gotta expect a little of that.
Strangely enough, the same is true for non-US centric, non-US based yet english-speaking services.
If that is the case then I hope he did not take it wrongly. I certainly did not mean it in a bad way :)
> I'm not sure I follow your meaning. I pointed out specifically that converters are required in the US, because it is my understanding that they aren't required worldwide.
They are required in all first-world nations, most second-world nations and some developing countries are catching up fast. My point is that you limited specifically to the US, something which Europeans tend not to do in a matter like this.
> As for "matters" - well, laws passed in Afghanistan and Zimbabwe aren't likely to affect me, so I don't pay them any mind. Laws passed in the US are likely to affect me, so I pay attention. Is that somehow wrong, or even evil?
The DMCA does not affect me at all, yet I follow the developments closely. Again, it's a matter of perspective. You are neither wrong nor evil, but you _are_ proving that US citizens tend to disregard the rest of the world.
> I guess the key phrase in your post might be "seem to assume". Maybe your perspective is skewed.
Although I have been to the US twice, I have met only a very limited part of the overall population. While most of those encounters confirmed my assessment of How Much You Care, the test set is too small. Thus, I chose the term 'seem'. It reflects that this is the effect they are having over here without claiming that this is the case all the time.
You seem to have enough self-reflection to care about this so I suggest you try to monitor yourself and what you say & write for some time. If you detect a strong tendency to disregard the rest of the world you might want to change it. If you don't want to change, that's cool too but confirms the above. And even if you don't see any such tendency, it did not hurt and you proved me wrong.
The whole 'install on a desktop' thing bugs me for things that should be server apps.
I guess it depends on how you work (and how many people work on it). I for one am glad about choice :)
> which is the reason catalytic converters are required on vehicles in the US.
Call me strange, but it has become a hobby of mine to find all the little ways in which US citizens seem to assume They Are The One Nation That Matters.
Generally speaking, a properly impregnated wooden house will last longer than a concrete one. An even the ones which were not impregnated will still have the large beam structure standing after burning down. That is because the outer wood burns, becomes coal and does not let enough oxygen to the wood so it can continue to burn.
I think it's save to assume that there will be an option to warn about this, soon ;)
That being said, you can already switch off the particular optimization, which is already planned for all (default) future kernel builds.
Because clearly, all of Europe was behind the iron curtain.
Funny and here I was thinking that the "can't read" thing applies mostly to people who pretend to be open-minded and then go on peddling their petty prejudices. But not without pretending to be sorry and then applying their last witty thrust to the core of the poor sods Thou Happens Not To Like.
To be fair, if I sold records, my interest in releasing fewer records would be slim. Not saying that there wasn't a reason for them to do so of their own free will, but just food for thought.