Fame here, your 15 minutes is up. Please stop cluttering our theatres with lame attempts at making things look real. If the audience want's real, they'd be out hiking, walking, boating, sailing, soaring, etc - not watching the mind numbing crap the movie companies produce.
Lets cut to the chase - how much MONEY do you have. It's all well to ask pie-in-the-sky questions, but then reality sets in and we find you can't afford it.
Why don't you start with what you CAN afford, and then go from there (cause you know that's what your PHB and Bean Counters are going to tell you).
Hard to get too excited. We are after all talking about the oh so NOT transparent China. Who knows what, if any of the data will be accurate or even real. The state run PR dept. of China is famous for their Science Fiction.
Must be nice to be able to have your herd of sheeple pay your fine for you. They raked in millions and yet they still want someone else to pay the fine. That my friend is a true Pirate.
"The guy has achieved more than almost anyone on the planet"
Get real. Except for a few landmark papers VERY early in his career, he hasn't done anything special. He has a great marketing engine behind him, and he's good at selecting "assistant" writers to explain complex physics to the general public.
It's been decades since he's even peeked into the Top 100 physicists list (which is peer review based). His "achievements" are mostly honorary, and if he wasn't a cripple - he have been moved to the "has been" pile many many years ago.
Good for him to overcome his physical handicaps (and live way longer then predicted), but lets not start giving bonus points for scientific achievements based on the guys handicap (lets leave that to public schools).
Sounds like another doomed municipal project using fiber instead of wifi.
Sorry to be the nay sayer, but come on, how many times have we heard this same wishful thinking before? They always have a "great" plan, a so-so business model, and lots and lots of town meetings were everyone agrees it's a great idea right up to the point where they have to start ponying up some real funds.
If it's on TV then you know it will be staged and chock full of pseudo-science dumbed down for the unwashed hordes (like Ghost hunters only with even worse acting and cheesy special effects).
As anyone who has recently provisioned a new circuit knows, you have to justify your needs in order to get a large subnet (usually anything bigger then a/27).
So the answer to NOT running out of IPv4 space is to UN-grandfather all of the current assignments, and make all those Class A and Class B hogs justify their usage/ownership.
Eminent domain should be applicable.
Having a bunch of corp's re-ip their network is work, but certainly it's WAY less expensive then redesigning the internet (and the associated new hardware costs said redesign would incur).
I like my data centers to be bunker-esque. Not some flimsy trailer parked in the back lot that any schmo with a pair of cable cutters can take off line or with a stick or two of dynamite reduce to component level bits and pieces.
If you listen hard enough, you can hear a "golf clap" from the 1960's.
Color me un-impressed. The largest Country on the planet, has access to how it was done numerous times throughout recent history, the ability to use current computer, chemistry, machining and manufacturing technology, and it takes them over 40 years to duplicate it?
If the top grad schools had to stick to American only students, they'd go bankrupt in just a few years.
Thanks to "no moron left behind" and "teachers unions" and our dumbass politicians that let myths (aka intelligent design) be taught as science, the number of potential grad students coming from America gets slimmer every year.
I'd rant more, but I'm too busy learning Mandarin.
Living in a Science Fiction Fantasy isn't all that good either.
What scenario, exactly, do you forecast, where modern man is insufficient, yet the Amish and hillbillies will thrive.
After nuclear annihilation? After a 99.9% virulent airborne virus is released? After a global AI takes over? When the dust settles and the planet thaws after a comet or large asteroid strike? When the molten surface of the planet cools after a direct Gamma Ray Burst strikes the earth? What?
The probably of an event that crumbles modern civilization yet leaves an environment suitable for humans with "mad hunter skillz" to survive is slim and none. Either civilization will continue on, or mankind will end but the gray zone is pretty much science fiction.
So waste your time learning all those last century skills, everyone needs a hobby, just don't confuse those skills with something useful.
I also don't know how to use a Flintlock rifle, trap/clean/spit roast a hare, catch a fish with my bare hands, hitch a wagon to a horse, or build/make/use a butter churn.
Since I live in the 21st century, I don't really lose sleep over those things.
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Dear 3D:
Fame here, your 15 minutes is up. Please stop cluttering our theatres with lame attempts at making things look real. If the audience want's real, they'd be out hiking, walking, boating, sailing, soaring, etc - not watching the mind numbing crap the movie companies produce.
So stop it - no really, stop it NOW.
Thanks,
F
"saving countless aspiring grad students thousands of clicks through university websites."
Yeah, that's what professors live for, making their drudges (aka doc/post doc students) lives easier.
That's just crazy. Take a vacation, relax, enjoy life. There's plenty of time (51 weeks a year to be exact) that you can toil away at that grindstone.
Trust me, you (and your emotional/physical/mental well being) will thank me.
You say: " I've used Mikrotik's RouterOS for five years, but it just isn't built for what I need."
What exactly isn't it built for?
Mikrotik has numerous large WISP's (+5000 seats) running on Mikrotik Software and hardware.
Have you contacted Mikrotik's engineers with your "problem"?
Lets cut to the chase - how much MONEY do you have. It's all well to ask pie-in-the-sky questions, but then reality sets in and we find you can't afford it.
Why don't you start with what you CAN afford, and then go from there (cause you know that's what your PHB and Bean Counters are going to tell you).
Hard to get too excited. We are after all talking about the oh so NOT transparent China. Who knows what, if any of the data will be accurate or even real. The state run PR dept. of China is famous for their Science Fiction.
Must be nice to be able to have your herd of sheeple pay your fine for you. They raked in millions and yet they still want someone else to pay the fine. That my friend is a true Pirate.
"The guy has achieved more than almost anyone on the planet"
Get real. Except for a few landmark papers VERY early in his career, he hasn't done anything special. He has a great marketing engine behind him, and he's good at selecting "assistant" writers to explain complex physics to the general public.
It's been decades since he's even peeked into the Top 100 physicists list (which is peer review based). His "achievements" are mostly honorary, and if he wasn't a cripple - he have been moved to the "has been" pile many many years ago.
Good for him to overcome his physical handicaps (and live way longer then predicted), but lets not start giving bonus points for scientific achievements based on the guys handicap (lets leave that to public schools).
When it's more then a glorified pop-bottle rocket.
Which means it has to have active stabilization and a guidance package.
Reason #9,382,329 NOT to waste time on those stupid "social" networking sites.
It really only took Two Hours - the rest of the time was used stuffing in paid ads.
I thought WTF was pretty much every state's motto
Waste Taxpayers Funds
BTF (Bound to Fail)
Sounds like another doomed municipal project using fiber instead of wifi.
Sorry to be the nay sayer, but come on, how many times have we heard this same wishful thinking before? They always have a "great" plan, a so-so business model, and lots and lots of town meetings were everyone agrees it's a great idea right up to the point where they have to start ponying up some real funds.
Copper is pretty cheap AND so is all it's components.
I have around 12 devices networked in my house.
How much will that Plastic Fiber equipment cost?
Using $5 NIC's, a $80 smart switch, and copper cable seems like a price that will be hard to beat.
Who pays someone to replace their hard drive?
//betting the guy wears velcro trainers.
If you know which end of a screwdriver is pointy, you can pretty much swap out a hard drive.
If it's on TV then you know it will be staged and chock full of pseudo-science dumbed down for the unwashed hordes (like Ghost hunters only with even worse acting and cheesy special effects).
As anyone who has recently provisioned a new circuit knows, you have to justify your needs in order to get a large subnet (usually anything bigger then a /27).
So the answer to NOT running out of IPv4 space is to UN-grandfather all of the current assignments, and make all those Class A and Class B hogs justify their usage/ownership.
Eminent domain should be applicable.
Having a bunch of corp's re-ip their network is work, but certainly it's WAY less expensive then redesigning the internet (and the associated new hardware costs said redesign would incur).
Good. It's about time they weed out the criminally stupid.
What moron doesn't know they can buy a throw away cell from Walmarts for cash?
If you're dumb enough to be a crook AND use a traceable (i.e. contracted) cell phone you deserve what you get.
I'll pass.
I like my data centers to be bunker-esque. Not some flimsy trailer parked in the back lot that any schmo with a pair of cable cutters can take off line or with a stick or two of dynamite reduce to component level bits and pieces.
If you listen hard enough, you can hear a "golf clap" from the 1960's.
Color me un-impressed. The largest Country on the planet, has access to how it was done numerous times throughout recent history, the ability to use current computer, chemistry, machining and manufacturing technology, and it takes them over 40 years to duplicate it?
They should have made a big change, like Battlestar Galactica did, and made Kirk a women.
A hot cylon/bionic women.
American Public Education SUCKS.
If the top grad schools had to stick to American only students, they'd go bankrupt in just a few years.
Thanks to "no moron left behind" and "teachers unions" and our dumbass politicians that let myths (aka intelligent design) be taught as science, the number of potential grad students coming from America gets slimmer every year.
I'd rant more, but I'm too busy learning Mandarin.
Living in a Science Fiction Fantasy isn't all that good either.
What scenario, exactly, do you forecast, where modern man is insufficient, yet the Amish and hillbillies will thrive.
After nuclear annihilation? After a 99.9% virulent airborne virus is released? After a global AI takes over? When the dust settles and the planet thaws after a comet or large asteroid strike? When the molten surface of the planet cools after a direct Gamma Ray Burst strikes the earth? What?
The probably of an event that crumbles modern civilization yet leaves an environment suitable for humans with "mad hunter skillz" to survive is slim and none. Either civilization will continue on, or mankind will end but the gray zone is pretty much science fiction.
So waste your time learning all those last century skills, everyone needs a hobby, just don't confuse those skills with something useful.
I also don't know how to use a Flintlock rifle, trap/clean/spit roast a hare, catch a fish with my bare hands, hitch a wagon to a horse, or build/make/use a butter churn.
Since I live in the 21st century, I don't really lose sleep over those things.
I'm not good at math, so what's 1.6 BILLION minus 1 equal again?
Why is this news?