I can see it on my ipv6 connection, it's on 2001:558:1002:5:68:87:64:59 and seems to work:)
For those on the UK wanting an ADSL ISP with ipv6 support I recommend Andrews & Arnold (http://www.aaisp.net.uk/) who have been doing this for years now and provide native or tunneled ipv6 and full ipv6 static addresses to their customers on request.
Just a happy customer of theirs:)
The major problem isn't overall latency, it's little spikes of latency on an otherwise good line.
A moment of 100ms lag on an otherwise good line doesn't matter for online games because of client prediction and at worst it's a tiny moment where the controls don't seem responsive. It's not a problem for normal video because they can buffer 250ms or 500ms or 1000ms of video without any problem.
But on this they can't do any significant buffering or the latency will be too much to play.And even 100ms of sudden latency will cause the picture to lag or freeze or jump. It might only happen occasionally but I suspect people won't put up with it.
And they can't do anything about it either, even if your ISP is only 10% loaded on its lines and routers, there will be times when all that 10% send packets at the same moment and they get queued in a router somewhere, just for a tiny time but tiny little amounts of jitter like this are normal and expected and to be honest I think will be the downfall of this project because there is no real way to deal with them.
But I guess we'll see:)
Why would I want a "number" for that? That's why DNS was invented, so we could move forward from using numbers to identify things and use proper identifiers instead. This is a step backwards in many ways.
Instead of using wifi why don't they grab the power from mobile phone transmissions and use the power transmitted from the mobile phone instead. They can build the device right next to the phone then so they can get *much* more power. In fact the inverse square law states that the closer you get to the source the power increases. If you are building this into a phone then you can put the device right inside the transmitter and be at ZERO distance and so the inverse square law tells me that would generate an INFINITE amount of power! That should be enough to power a cellphone, right?/not serious...
There is a huge difference between a website that you go to for the purpose of communicating widely with people and life in general. Just because you might choose on facebook to share your thoughts with anyone who cares does not in any way imply that's what you want elsewhere.
Although scientists are agreed that we must cut carbon emissions from transport and electricity generation to prevent the globe's climate becoming hotter
No there really isn't any agreement on this. As the first sentence was so wrong I didn't bother to read the rest.
So go find an honest ISP like this one. Yes they have some limits on how much data you can use in a month but they don't secretly block or throttle stuff are completely up front and honest about it and don't pretend you can get unlimited usage when it's a complete lie like most ISPs.
I use them in the UK and am happy.
In the 6 months I've been a member they've messed up my billing twice, once closing my account for not paying (when they didn;t take the money...) and once billing me twice... But both times I complained by email and get back replies within minutes which were helpful, accurate, polite and with a proper apology. I don't mind people messing up if they put it right efficiently.
I got a mac mini a while back to play with.
But I don't really use it all that much. It's fun to have a play with but I can't imagine ever using it instead of my pc for anything 'real'.
Do these new chips share the highest speed cache?
I can think for several ways to make use of them without using traditional threads. For example:
Set up a pool of threads each one of which just reads a function address from a queue of work and then calls that function, waiting when there is no work.
The main program can then just push function pointers onto the queue knowing that a thread will pick up the work.
I'm thinking that instead of writing something like for(int i = 0; i < NumberOfModels; i++) { UpdateModelAnimation(i); }
you could write
ThreadPool* pool = new ThreadPool(); for(int i = 0 ; i < NumberOfModels; i++) { pool->QueueAsyncCall(UpdateModelAnimation, i); } pool->WaitForAllToFinish();
The queueing of work could be made pertty low overhead and so if there were only a few thousand CPU instructions in the call you'd get a big speed up, but only if each processor already had the data they were working on in cache. If each core has a separate cache this would be a lot less efficient. Does anyone know?
They should also make it a crime to talk to people without using a phone at all. After all you're just bypassing the phone companies systems by doing so which clearly should be a crime.
The mini is very good in many ways. As I said, I really like mine.
But it's not a replacement for my PC because there are several pieces of software I want to run on pc. Also it's just too slow for many things I want to do. A faster mac would be considerably more expensive.
And finally I find the mac user interface to be really painful to use compared with windows. There are a couple of major design flaws that make it much slower to use than my PC for general use.
As I said, I have a place for both. It's possible I'll end up using the mac for lots more things than I first thought but it won't replace my PC at all.
My mac mini is great. I really like it.
But it doesn't replace my windows PC. It's very much a second computer to do different things on. If I only had one computer it would be my PC still.
"I know, lets's put a tax on computers!"
"Hmmm, but nobody is going to accept that!"
"We could tell them it's all for the environment and good for them!"
"But nobody will believe that...."
"They seem to believe in thie global warming we keep hyping up as an excuse for all kinds of new taxes."
"Hehe, yeah!"
Every time I read here on/. about how 'professional' programmers seem to think that it's to hard to actually take the time and effort to write failsafe code, and test it as such, I ask myself how many people would die if thier attitudes were used developing the flight management systems in our aircraft.
Yes it could be made very nearly fault free.
But it's expensive and slow to do so.
There is a tradeoff between cost/quality and we've found the level that people are willing to pay for. They are willing to accept a certain level of faults for the cost they are paying.
The tradeoff in different industries is different.
Oops forgot to login for my comment.
You could always vote with your credit card and change to an ISP which does support ipv6. They do exist. The ISP I use supports ipv6 (it's in the UK though so no use to most people here I suppose).
The point is that ISPs supporting ipv6 do exist and is a unique selling point for those ISPs. It's of limited use at the moment but I suspect soon enough it will be become more use and those few isps and their customers who do support it now will have a great headstart,
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My ISP has given me (and any customer who wants it) 18446744073709551616 IPv6 addresses free of charge, That should keep me going for a while...
I can see it on my ipv6 connection, it's on 2001:558:1002:5:68:87:64:59 and seems to work :)
For those on the UK wanting an ADSL ISP with ipv6 support I recommend Andrews & Arnold (http://www.aaisp.net.uk/) who have been doing this for years now and provide native or tunneled ipv6 and full ipv6 static addresses to their customers on request.
Just a happy customer of theirs :)
The major problem isn't overall latency, it's little spikes of latency on an otherwise good line. A moment of 100ms lag on an otherwise good line doesn't matter for online games because of client prediction and at worst it's a tiny moment where the controls don't seem responsive. It's not a problem for normal video because they can buffer 250ms or 500ms or 1000ms of video without any problem. But on this they can't do any significant buffering or the latency will be too much to play.And even 100ms of sudden latency will cause the picture to lag or freeze or jump. It might only happen occasionally but I suspect people won't put up with it. And they can't do anything about it either, even if your ISP is only 10% loaded on its lines and routers, there will be times when all that 10% send packets at the same moment and they get queued in a router somewhere, just for a tiny time but tiny little amounts of jitter like this are normal and expected and to be honest I think will be the downfall of this project because there is no real way to deal with them. But I guess we'll see :)
Why would I want a "number" for that? That's why DNS was invented, so we could move forward from using numbers to identify things and use proper identifiers instead. This is a step backwards in many ways.
Instead of using wifi why don't they grab the power from mobile phone transmissions and use the power transmitted from the mobile phone instead. They can build the device right next to the phone then so they can get *much* more power. In fact the inverse square law states that the closer you get to the source the power increases. If you are building this into a phone then you can put the device right inside the transmitter and be at ZERO distance and so the inverse square law tells me that would generate an INFINITE amount of power! That should be enough to power a cellphone, right? /not serious...
There is a huge difference between a website that you go to for the purpose of communicating widely with people and life in general. Just because you might choose on facebook to share your thoughts with anyone who cares does not in any way imply that's what you want elsewhere.
I was using this and they disabled it so I can't use firefox any more. Oh well, back to IE8 then.
Definatly take a look at poco project http://pocoproject.org/ It seems to covera lot of what you want
No there really isn't any agreement on this. As the first sentence was so wrong I didn't bother to read the rest.
It's been available in the UK too for a little while now
this is a problem how exactly?
So go find an honest ISP like this one. Yes they have some limits on how much data you can use in a month but they don't secretly block or throttle stuff are completely up front and honest about it and don't pretend you can get unlimited usage when it's a complete lie like most ISPs.
I use them in the UK and am happy. In the 6 months I've been a member they've messed up my billing twice, once closing my account for not paying (when they didn;t take the money...) and once billing me twice... But both times I complained by email and get back replies within minutes which were helpful, accurate, polite and with a proper apology. I don't mind people messing up if they put it right efficiently.
Yeah imagine paying for something that's convenient and useful. How evil can you get :)
I got a mac mini a while back to play with. But I don't really use it all that much. It's fun to have a play with but I can't imagine ever using it instead of my pc for anything 'real'.
They should also make it a crime to talk to people without using a phone at all. After all you're just bypassing the phone companies systems by doing so which clearly should be a crime.
The mini is very good in many ways. As I said, I really like mine. But it's not a replacement for my PC because there are several pieces of software I want to run on pc. Also it's just too slow for many things I want to do. A faster mac would be considerably more expensive. And finally I find the mac user interface to be really painful to use compared with windows. There are a couple of major design flaws that make it much slower to use than my PC for general use. As I said, I have a place for both. It's possible I'll end up using the mac for lots more things than I first thought but it won't replace my PC at all.
My mac mini is great. I really like it. But it doesn't replace my windows PC. It's very much a second computer to do different things on. If I only had one computer it would be my PC still.
"I know, lets's put a tax on computers!" "Hmmm, but nobody is going to accept that!" "We could tell them it's all for the environment and good for them!" "But nobody will believe that...." "They seem to believe in thie global warming we keep hyping up as an excuse for all kinds of new taxes." "Hehe, yeah!"
This guy rocks. Not just for samba but rsync, and lots of tivo stuff too. Unless I'm confusing him with someone else
I thought I'd buy a mac mini but the UK store seems to be broken. Probably will have changed my mind by the time it's working again.
Why would you want to remove the central tracker? Bittorrent works very well as it is.
Oops forgot to login for my comment. You could always vote with your credit card and change to an ISP which does support ipv6. They do exist. The ISP I use supports ipv6 (it's in the UK though so no use to most people here I suppose). The point is that ISPs supporting ipv6 do exist and is a unique selling point for those ISPs. It's of limited use at the moment but I suspect soon enough it will be become more use and those few isps and their customers who do support it now will have a great headstart,