If you're flying transatlantic, avoid U.S. carriers if at all possible. I've found the food/service to be very good with Air France or Lufthansa. Plus, drinks are free!
Yes, there's the rub. Transition to IPv6 will require ISPs to deploy new boxes (or new images) to all customers. Also, the typical customer (think mom) is going to use whatever defaults the ISP provides, which may or may not be a good FW setup. This scale of roll-out a pretty big (read: costly) problem in the real world. The inertia is going to be difficult to overcome. What we "should have had" is far from what we do have.
Reading comprehension fail!
I didn't ask where, I asked what. What is this two-line script going to be running on? An extra computer that must either always be running or booted every time mom wants to use the Internet? Or is her little $30 NAT box magically going to become scriptable?
It's not at the game level, it is at the device level. The Nintendo DS only supports WEP.
Nope, apparently it is at the game level. The DSi supports WPA but only on DSi games. DS games don't support it because the network drivers are bundled with the game or something equally daft.
DS games don't support it because the DS hardware doesn't support it. The DSi is different hardware
Note that there are no USA companies, or technologies mentioned anywhere.
Look no further than the first 75% of the comments on this article. It's not just our technological edge, it's the incredibly skeptical attitude to EVs (and pretty much everything else on the alternative energy front) that you see. Nothing but naysayers as far as the eye can see.
Instead of picking apart every solution because it isn't perfect (which apparently is the prevailing US thinking), the Germans know that even if you come up with a 10% solution, you only need to come up with 10 of them.
What we've lost is our ability to look at anything in the long-term. Short-term thinking is what is holding the US back...
I guess they will cut the public funding, and NPR will happily continue with the 2% loss of funding. BTW Juan Williams has been a horse's ass for much longer than Fox has been around. Worst "moderator" of Talk of The Nation, ever.
Ice is the most effective way of improving blood flow. At the first sign of pain, start icing the affected area daily. You have to nip the initial inflammation in the bud before it can cause serious damage.
why care about the routers? Just buy a switch for $30 or use your router as a switch by plugging into a LAN port instead of the WAN port.
If I unplug from my router and plug strait into my cable modem, I can access every IPv6 site out there. I don't have to config ANYTHING.
Luckily my router runs on Linux and eventually DD-WRT will correctly support it and then I'll just use it as a IPV4-NAT and an IPv6 Firewall.
fyi, if your DSL modem is 10 years old, go to your ISP and trade in for a new one. I did that with my modem and got an IPv6 compatible one.
Fine for us geeks who even know/care about IPv6/switches/routers/modems.
What about the other 95% of Joe six-packs out there? They don't know/don't care.
The problem isn't OS support. That gets changed once and then distributed everywhere, and people tend to upgrade their OS once in a while.
The real problem is the little home router that most people have. Those all need to be replaced with little home routers that support IPv6. Ditto for the little DSL modem/router that most folks got from their ISP back when they got DSL 10 years ago.
Unfortunately, if you look at the typical home router sitting in a box on a store shelf, you can't tell if it supports IPv6. Manufacturers are not touting their products as being IPv6-ready. I've looked, and it's really hard to tell. Most of the ones I've seen don't say either way.
And no one has incentive to replace their DSL modem/router, either. The ISP isn't going to pay for it, and it's one of those things you set and forget. Even if you could talk everyone into buying a new one, installing and configuring it would be very disruptive to the average user. There isn't a compelling enough reason for the home user to bother.
Someone above joked about making Facebook IPv6-only. It's going to take something like that to provide the 'incentive' for the typical user to make the change, and you know that just isn't going to happen. Inertia makes an IPv6-only Internet a non-starter.
I don't look so good in spandex/lycra, but you're right about the chafing, etc..
My solution is to wear loose-fitting cotton shorts -over- the bike shorts. That way, no one has to watch me 'smuggle plums', and I don't have to put up with the chafing or the heckling. Works great!
Not a word from you about what their ideology produces, just that you met some nice people.
Albert Speer was a nice fellow too, but the society he enabled was not so nice. It doesn't matter that he wasn't a zealot.
Christians support Christianity by being Christian. I've seen the finest Christian societies in history. They are theocratic, oppressive, and deserve to perish, along with the "nice" Christians who MAKE THEM FUNCTION.
Fuck religion, secular societies don't need Christians. When "Christians" renounce their religion and regain their humanity, then they might be worthy of my respect. I literally regard the only good Christian to be one that isn't breathing.
Pumped-storage is the the best large-scale battery available.
From Wikipedia:
Taking into account evaporation losses from the exposed water surface and conversion losses, approximately 70% to 85% of the electrical energy used to pump the water into the elevated reservoir can be regained. The technique is currently the most cost-effective means of storing large amounts of electrical energy on an operating basis...
To shoot a meteor shower, you need nothing more than a tripod, a camera with a ~50mm lens, warm clothes and patience.
You don't want to take real long exposures to get meteors, too long and light pollution/sky glow will likely mess up your pictures.
Just point near the radiant (I try for framing a nice constellation nearby), and using a cable release take 20-30 second exposures while watching the area of sky that the camera sees. Most exposures obviously won't have meteors, but when you do catch one, take note of which exposure for later when you delete the (many) exposures that didn't have a meteor. When you do capture a meteor, start a new exposure because keeping the shutter open longer won't likely gain you anything.
If you're looking at doing further astrophotography beyond a meteor shower, then you will need some form of tracking. Making a barn-door tracker can be a cheap option to get started (YMMV, depending on how good you are at making stuff and your level of patience!).
As with the rest of astronomy, you can start out spending a bunch of money on stuff you don't really need or use, so it's always good to start cheap and see if you are really into it. If your interest holds, you will find a way to buy up.
What are you asking to see? The UN totally allows defensive/retaliatory military strikes.
Well, ignoring the UN tangent, how about a good old-fashioned constitutional declaration of war. You know, like in article one, section eight of the US Constitution.
the car needs to spend 4 minutes on the charger for every 1 minute it spends on the road.
Not quite accurate. The car needs to spend 4 minutes on the charger for every 1 minute it spends moving full speed on the road.
Idle time and deceleration are factors in favor of EVs. In city traffic, your ICE is running constantly, whether or not you are moving. Traffic jam? Red Light? Too bad, you're still burning fuel.
With an electric vehicle, you only use energy when you are moving. Traffic jam? Red Light? No problem, you aren't using any energy (except AC/heating/stereo).
It would be interesting to know what sort of budget they had to work with. Contrast the Korean/Russian effort with that of these guys. They seem to be able to afford quite rigorous testing, which I think has had a lot to do with their success on the launch pad.
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If you're flying transatlantic, avoid U.S. carriers if at all possible. I've found the food/service to be very good with Air France or Lufthansa. Plus, drinks are free!
Yet, every time the subject of cycling comes up on slashdot, there is no shortage of IDIOTS who insist that cyclists should use the sidewalk...
Yes, there's the rub. Transition to IPv6 will require ISPs to deploy new boxes (or new images) to all customers. Also, the typical customer (think mom) is going to use whatever defaults the ISP provides, which may or may not be a good FW setup. This scale of roll-out a pretty big (read: costly) problem in the real world. The inertia is going to be difficult to overcome. What we "should have had" is far from what we do have.
Reading comprehension fail! I didn't ask where, I asked what.
What is this two-line script going to be running on? An extra computer that must either always be running or booted every time mom wants to use the Internet? Or is her little $30 NAT box magically going to become scriptable?
Your mother can be protected by 2 lines of firewall script (allow incoming for established, deny all incoming otherwise).
You keep repeating that, but that firewall script will be running on what? Her XP machine? Her $30 switch? An extra, dedicated linux/xBSD box?
It's not at the game level, it is at the device level. The Nintendo DS only supports WEP.
Nope, apparently it is at the game level. The DSi supports WPA but only on DSi games. DS games don't support it because the network drivers are bundled with the game or something equally daft.
DS games don't support it because the DS hardware doesn't support it. The DSi is different hardware
It's not at the game level, it is at the device level. The Nintendo DS only supports WEP.
Note that there are no USA companies, or technologies mentioned anywhere.
Look no further than the first 75% of the comments on this article. It's not just our technological edge, it's the incredibly skeptical attitude to EVs (and pretty much everything else on the alternative energy front) that you see. Nothing but naysayers as far as the eye can see.
Instead of picking apart every solution because it isn't perfect (which apparently is the prevailing US thinking), the Germans know that even if you come up with a 10% solution, you only need to come up with 10 of them.
What we've lost is our ability to look at anything in the long-term. Short-term thinking is what is holding the US back...
I guess they will cut the public funding, and NPR will happily continue with the 2% loss of funding. BTW Juan Williams has been a horse's ass for much longer than Fox has been around. Worst "moderator" of Talk of The Nation, ever.
If it depends on the browser allowing javascript from statcounter.com, it would not count hits from browsers with NoScript.
Ice is the most effective way of improving blood flow. At the first sign of pain, start icing the affected area daily. You have to nip the initial inflammation in the bud before it can cause serious damage.
'If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we should know the mind of God.' Hawkins - 1988
'I put a spell on you, because you're mine!' Hawkins - 1956
why care about the routers? Just buy a switch for $30 or use your router as a switch by plugging into a LAN port instead of the WAN port. If I unplug from my router and plug strait into my cable modem, I can access every IPv6 site out there. I don't have to config ANYTHING. Luckily my router runs on Linux and eventually DD-WRT will correctly support it and then I'll just use it as a IPV4-NAT and an IPv6 Firewall. fyi, if your DSL modem is 10 years old, go to your ISP and trade in for a new one. I did that with my modem and got an IPv6 compatible one.
Fine for us geeks who even know/care about IPv6/switches/routers/modems.
What about the other 95% of Joe six-packs out there? They don't know/don't care.
That's where the inertia is.
The problem isn't OS support. That gets changed once and then distributed everywhere, and people tend to upgrade their OS once in a while.
The real problem is the little home router that most people have. Those all need to be replaced with little home routers that support IPv6. Ditto for the little DSL modem/router that most folks got from their ISP back when they got DSL 10 years ago.
Unfortunately, if you look at the typical home router sitting in a box on a store shelf, you can't tell if it supports IPv6. Manufacturers are not touting their products as being IPv6-ready. I've looked, and it's really hard to tell. Most of the ones I've seen don't say either way.
And no one has incentive to replace their DSL modem/router, either. The ISP isn't going to pay for it, and it's one of those things you set and forget. Even if you could talk everyone into buying a new one, installing and configuring it would be very disruptive to the average user. There isn't a compelling enough reason for the home user to bother.
Someone above joked about making Facebook IPv6-only. It's going to take something like that to provide the 'incentive' for the typical user to make the change, and you know that just isn't going to happen. Inertia makes an IPv6-only Internet a non-starter.
I don't look so good in spandex/lycra, but you're right about the chafing, etc..
My solution is to wear loose-fitting cotton shorts -over- the bike shorts. That way, no one has to watch me 'smuggle plums', and I don't have to put up with the chafing or the heckling. Works great!
Looks like clownpuke to me. Color saturation is cranked up -way- too high...
you're a member of the 1% of all cellphone users that doesn't regularly connect their phone to their TV to watch HD movies
Did you mistype, or are you really claiming that 99% of all cellphone users regularly connect their phone to their TV to watch TV?
Or is this a "whoooooosh" moment for me?
Not a word from you about what their ideology produces, just that you met some nice people.
Albert Speer was a nice fellow too, but the society he enabled was not so nice. It doesn't matter that he wasn't a zealot.
Christians support Christianity by being Christian. I've seen the finest Christian societies in history. They are theocratic, oppressive, and deserve to perish, along with the "nice" Christians who MAKE THEM FUNCTION.
Fuck religion, secular societies don't need Christians. When "Christians" renounce their religion and regain their humanity, then they might be worthy of my respect. I literally regard the only good Christian to be one that isn't breathing.
FTFY (Speer was raised as a Christian)...
Pump storage is very lossy hydro on a small scale
Pumped-storage is the the best large-scale battery available.
From Wikipedia:
Taking into account evaporation losses from the exposed water surface and conversion losses, approximately 70% to 85% of the electrical energy used to pump the water into the elevated reservoir can be regained. The technique is currently the most cost-effective means of storing large amounts of electrical energy on an operating basis...
Burma Shave.
To shoot a meteor shower, you need nothing more than a tripod, a camera with a ~50mm lens, warm clothes and patience.
You don't want to take real long exposures to get meteors, too long and light pollution/sky glow will likely mess up your pictures.
Just point near the radiant (I try for framing a nice constellation nearby), and using a cable release take 20-30 second exposures while watching the area of sky that the camera sees. Most exposures obviously won't have meteors, but when you do catch one, take note of which exposure for later when you delete the (many) exposures that didn't have a meteor. When you do capture a meteor, start a new exposure because keeping the shutter open longer won't likely gain you anything.
If you're looking at doing further astrophotography beyond a meteor shower, then you will need some form of tracking. Making a barn-door tracker can be a cheap option to get started (YMMV, depending on how good you are at making stuff and your level of patience!).
As with the rest of astronomy, you can start out spending a bunch of money on stuff you don't really need or use, so it's always good to start cheap and see if you are really into it. If your interest holds, you will find a way to buy up.
What are you asking to see? The UN totally allows defensive/retaliatory military strikes.
Well, ignoring the UN tangent, how about a good old-fashioned constitutional declaration of war. You know, like in article one, section eight of the US Constitution.
the car needs to spend 4 minutes on the charger for every 1 minute it spends on the road.
Not quite accurate. The car needs to spend 4 minutes on the charger for every 1 minute it spends moving full speed on the road.
Idle time and deceleration are factors in favor of EVs. In city traffic, your ICE is running constantly, whether or not you are moving. Traffic jam? Red Light? Too bad, you're still burning fuel.
With an electric vehicle, you only use energy when you are moving. Traffic jam? Red Light? No problem, you aren't using any energy (except AC/heating/stereo).
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The other problem is that tests are expensive...
It would be interesting to know what sort of budget they had to work with. Contrast the Korean/Russian effort with that of these guys. They seem to be able to afford quite rigorous testing, which I think has had a lot to do with their success on the launch pad.