Celsius over Fahrenheit is not a logical choice. We don't boil water on a daily basis, but we're expected to use the boiling and freezing points of water for our daily experience?
I live & was born in the US, and I've recently gone to using C for temperature as I work in an International company and was tired of not understanding everyone else talk about the weather.
Honestly, Celsius is better, even after only using it for 6 months. Every 5 degrees is a different level of comfort, and each degree is more noticeable.
Really, how many humans can tell the difference between 71 degrees and 72 degrees?
When you get a proper job instead of playing around at college you might understand.
Over 30 years with computers, and my college was me teaching myself IPX. Currently work in a multi-national with over 80,000 employees.
If you're having issues with manpower & deadlines, the last thing you want to do is a bunch of manual shit. Automation lets you get things done, or causes your job to be replaced by someone that knows what they are doing.
Oh, and I'm referring to the tons of programmers I've seen that like to hard-code IPv4 addresses. If they can't setup BIND on a test box for their test environment, they shouldn't be writing code.
the designers REALLY didn't think it through at the manual address entry level.
Yeah, they did, and they decided that the only servers that need a manual address are DNS servers and DHCP servers (if you choose to run DHCP). Outside of those, the only other things that need manual addresses are routers.
Everything else should use Dynamic DNS.
Give me a good reason why someone shouldn't be using DNS instead of direct IP address, other than lazy programmers.
I'm not sure people realize that SETI has basically already failed. They've covered their entire spectrum numerous times
The entire spectrum? We've only looked at one frequency range on 20% of the sky:
SETI@home is basically a 21-cm survey. If we haven't guessed right about the alien broadcasters' choice of hailing frequency, the project is barking up the wrong tree in a forest of thousands of trees. Secondly, there has been little real-time followup of interesting signals. Lack of immediate, dedicated followup means that many scans are needed of each sky position in order to deal with the problem of interstellar scintillation if nothing else.
With its first, single-feed receiver, SETI@home logged at least three scans of more than 67 percent of the sky observable from Arecibo, amounting to about 20 percent of the entire celestial sphere. Of this area, a large portion was swept six or more times. Werthimer says that a reasonable goal, given issues such as interstellar scintillation, is nine sweeps of most points on Arecibo's visible sky.
Also, when there is no work to be done, your computer can look at other things.
I donate my time to several medical studies that will likely find some results that will help all people. I also donate some time to climate research that has less of a chance of helping EVERYONE. I also donate some time to SETI which has a very, very small chance of changing the world.
It is called hedging your bets. I spend some CPU on things with low risk and low reward, and others on things with high risk and high reward.
Mr Stull believes that the technology could impact bread in other ways. He said that bread manufacturers added lots of preservatives to try and fight mould, but then must add extra chemicals to mask the taste of the preservatives. If bakers were able to use the microwave technology, they would be able to avoid these additives.
You see, it is just like the arguement against nuclear power: Many people say "NO NUKES!", but since nothing else is as cost effective, they are actually saying "MORE COAL!". Personally, I'd rather my hazardous waste be contained to one spot instead of vomiting it out of a smokestack for everyone else to deal with.
Same thing with this bread. You claim the health declines, but if it is a choice between preservative and chemical-laden bread and microwaved bread, I'll take the microwaved bread any day.
Of course, the correct answer for both is "Wind/Solar power" and "Bake your own bread", but those are not the options that either the power company or the commercial bread maker are considering.
So, you are going to throw someone in jail because they were driving and their reactions are not up to the minimum you have decided is necessary for the task?
No, pull their license. Drop them off at home. Increase the time between pulling their license and returning it each time, years if needed. Jailtime for driving with suspended license.
The problem with both of those is that part of driving well is learning how good your reactions are and driving accordingly.
Reaction time matters, since you're not the only person on the road. Other things can demand a reaction that are outside your control.
This would put an end to the debate about people being too old to drive. Eyesight test and reaction time test. If you pass, you drive. If you fail, you ride.
Someone at Moratel likely "fat fingered" an Internet route. PCCW, who was Moratel's upstream provider, trusted the routes Moratel was sending to them. And, quickly, the bad routes spread.
Yes, someone at Moratel screwed up, but this is exactly why upstream ISPs should never allow advertisements from their customers for networks that their customer does not control.
PCCW is to blame for allowing this to happen. Never trust customers with things that don't belong to them.
I have noticed a ton of my friends that "like" things I know they know nothing about.
For example, a friend of mine that is a stay at home mom that can't use her iPhone "likes" Barracuda networks. When I asked her about this, she was clueless.
I've also seen many other friends liking things that do not fit them at all. I mean, they shouldn't be even seeing ads for these things, so I don't buy TFA's assumption that these are fat-finger issues.
Sure, if I leave money out in the open, I can't be mad if someone takes it. If I leave my WiFi open, I can't be mad if someone uses it.
HOWEVER: If I leave money out, and someone buys drugs with it, it is NOT my fault that THEY bought drugs. By the same token, if I leave my WiFi open, and someone does something illegal on the Internet using my connection, it is NOT my fault that they did someone illegal!
I stopped there, because I know there are too many people that will cling to measuring everything in feetsies & gerbil penises in the US to ever move to metric.
I've just decided to start using metric now, and let everyone else do the converting. If someone asks for the temperature, I tell it to them in Celsius, and I tell them directions in kilometers. If they're going to cling to the past, I'm going to let them to the converting, not me.
We need more efficient solar so we can stop building nuclear plants and burning coal.
I agree, but let's don't even to try to compare the pollution or radioactive waste that comes out of a power plant to charge an electric car to the pollution that comes out of a tailpipe.
I'd rather have a single point of pollution that can be controlled better for 50,000 cars than 50,000 oil-burning cars, each polluting in their own unique way.
I don't think you were completely trying to make the point that "EV still has to be plugged in to a fossil-fuel plant, so they're no better than gas", but I've heard it made so many times that I get stabby when I see something like it.
Depends. I don't think we should have equal wealth. However, history has shown than when a very small group has almost all of the wealth (thousands of times more) than the rest of the population, BAD THINGS happen.
Our current masters are only still in power because the majority still have reasonably comfortable lives, even if the wealth is very disproportionate. If the balance would tip enough that most people were starving, it wouldn't take long for the revolution.
Since the hardware hacking crowd has already taken apart the iPhone 5 & discovered that the camera is identical to the iPhone 4S, I'd say you're on to something.
The only thing that changed was the sapphire cover.
Then DOUBLE the amount you pay for broadband and I'M sick of hearing anybody bitch about the costs.
Done that. I'm on Comcast Business Class for my home. It isn't like this is the cheapest option, but they actually have techs that I can call and SOME of them can help me.
Hell call ANY regional carrier and ask about their IPV6 rollout plans
Comcast, evil though they may be, has one, and I'm on IPv6 now
The industry simply doesn't have enough trained techs with IPV6 knowledge and experience
We agree. This won't change until we see more adoption of it by ISPs. The techs need to start using it at home so they can use it at work.
I could go on, but my main point is that re-allocating the/8's only slightly delays the inevitable, so the idea of that needs to die. Ford isn't going to give its range back, and neither is the DoD or many of the others.
That was my main point, and the rest of this is us getting angry about other things, even those we might agree on.
What about all of the network admins that need to learn IPv6?
Most of us learn by doing. If I'm going to support IPv6 at the Fortune 500 I work for someday (years from now, I bet), I'd like to have years of USING IPv6 on my home network first.
Sure, I can setup an isolated network, but nothing speeds up my learning process like breaking my home network & having my wife & kids upset that nothing works.
if the DoD is sitting on a class A and only using a couple of thousand addresses you could redistribute all of their unused ones and not change a single thing about how they work
So, you already know for a fact that they're not using a couple of thousand address spread across their entire/8? What if they're using 7.1.1.1, 7.2.1.1, etc? That would only be 256 addresses, but would be a non-trivial change to their internal routing.
Get over it & deploy IPv6. I'm sick of hearing ANY defense of the idea of re-allocating/8's.
I know that I, along with many others, logged on to Microsoft's Connect site & suggested turning off Metro by default if a mouse was detected. Leave the option to turn if back on if you wish.
One simple change that would have stopped so much backlash, and it was suggested in PLENTY of time to implement it.
It was ignored. I'd love to know who made that call.
**Also suggested was with mouse detection or multiple monitors detected to run Metro apps within a window instead of full screen.
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Celsius over Fahrenheit is not a logical choice. We don't boil water on a daily basis, but we're expected to use the boiling and freezing points of water for our daily experience?
I live & was born in the US, and I've recently gone to using C for temperature as I work in an International company and was tired of not understanding everyone else talk about the weather.
Honestly, Celsius is better, even after only using it for 6 months. Every 5 degrees is a different level of comfort, and each degree is more noticeable.
Really, how many humans can tell the difference between 71 degrees and 72 degrees?
All 4 of your reasons are answered by "host your own DNS server & learn how to setup DNS properly"
When you get a proper job instead of playing around at college you might understand.
Over 30 years with computers, and my college was me teaching myself IPX. Currently work in a multi-national with over 80,000 employees.
If you're having issues with manpower & deadlines, the last thing you want to do is a bunch of manual shit. Automation lets you get things done, or causes your job to be replaced by someone that knows what they are doing.
Oh, and I'm referring to the tons of programmers I've seen that like to hard-code IPv4 addresses. If they can't setup BIND on a test box for their test environment, they shouldn't be writing code.
the designers REALLY didn't think it through at the manual address entry level.
Yeah, they did, and they decided that the only servers that need a manual address are DNS servers and DHCP servers (if you choose to run DHCP).
Outside of those, the only other things that need manual addresses are routers.
Everything else should use Dynamic DNS.
Give me a good reason why someone shouldn't be using DNS instead of direct IP address, other than lazy programmers.
I'm not sure people realize that SETI has basically already failed. They've covered their entire spectrum numerous times
The entire spectrum? We've only looked at one frequency range on 20% of the sky:
SETI@home is basically a 21-cm survey. If we haven't guessed right about the alien broadcasters' choice of hailing frequency, the project is barking up the wrong tree in a forest of thousands of trees. Secondly, there has been little real-time followup of interesting signals. Lack of immediate, dedicated followup means that many scans are needed of each sky position in order to deal with the problem of interstellar scintillation if nothing else.
With its first, single-feed receiver, SETI@home logged at least three scans of more than 67 percent of the sky observable from Arecibo, amounting to about 20 percent of the entire celestial sphere. Of this area, a large portion was swept six or more times. Werthimer says that a reasonable goal, given issues such as interstellar scintillation, is nine sweeps of most points on Arecibo's visible sky.
Quoted from http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resources/seti/3304561.html?page=5&c=y
Also, when there is no work to be done, your computer can look at other things.
I donate my time to several medical studies that will likely find some results that will help all people. I also donate some time to climate research that has less of a chance of helping EVERYONE. I also donate some time to SETI which has a very, very small chance of changing the world.
It is called hedging your bets. I spend some CPU on things with low risk and low reward, and others on things with high risk and high reward.
This is Windows 7 functionality isn't it?
No, it is "improved". Now, when I type "Windows Update", I get no results until I go the "Settings" sub-section.
In Windows 7, it was Start button, "Windows Up" then Enter.
Somehow, this is better?
From TFA:
Mr Stull believes that the technology could impact bread in other ways. He said that bread manufacturers added lots of preservatives to try and fight mould, but then must add extra chemicals to mask the taste of the preservatives. If bakers were able to use the microwave technology, they would be able to avoid these additives.
You see, it is just like the arguement against nuclear power: Many people say "NO NUKES!", but since nothing else is as cost effective, they are actually saying "MORE COAL!". Personally, I'd rather my hazardous waste be contained to one spot instead of vomiting it out of a smokestack for everyone else to deal with.
Same thing with this bread. You claim the health declines, but if it is a choice between preservative and chemical-laden bread and microwaved bread, I'll take the microwaved bread any day.
Of course, the correct answer for both is "Wind/Solar power" and "Bake your own bread", but those are not the options that either the power company or the commercial bread maker are considering.
No, pull their license. Drop them off at home. Increase the time between pulling their license and returning it each time, years if needed.
Jailtime for driving with suspended license.
Reaction time matters, since you're not the only person on the road. Other things can demand a reaction that are outside your control.
This would put an end to the debate about people being too old to drive. Eyesight test and reaction time test. If you pass, you drive. If you fail, you ride.
That's because digital wang comes along free with most searches. It is like the parsley of Internet search results.
Who orders parsley?
From TFA:
Someone at Moratel likely "fat fingered" an Internet route. PCCW, who was Moratel's upstream provider, trusted the routes Moratel was sending to them. And, quickly, the bad routes spread.
Yes, someone at Moratel screwed up, but this is exactly why upstream ISPs should never allow advertisements from their customers for networks that their customer does not control.
PCCW is to blame for allowing this to happen. Never trust customers with things that don't belong to them.
I was doing some research on this, and it turns out you have the most accurate comment on /. right now regarding this subject!
I have noticed a ton of my friends that "like" things I know they know nothing about.
For example, a friend of mine that is a stay at home mom that can't use her iPhone "likes" Barracuda networks. When I asked her about this, she was clueless.
I've also seen many other friends liking things that do not fit them at all. I mean, they shouldn't be even seeing ads for these things, so I don't buy TFA's assumption that these are fat-finger issues.
Sure, if I leave money out in the open, I can't be mad if someone takes it.
If I leave my WiFi open, I can't be mad if someone uses it.
HOWEVER:
If I leave money out, and someone buys drugs with it, it is NOT my fault that THEY bought drugs.
By the same token, if I leave my WiFi open, and someone does something illegal on the Internet using my connection, it is NOT my fault that they did someone illegal!
I stopped there, because I know there are too many people that will cling to measuring everything in feetsies & gerbil penises in the US to ever move to metric.
I've just decided to start using metric now, and let everyone else do the converting. If someone asks for the temperature, I tell it to them in Celsius, and I tell them directions in kilometers.
If they're going to cling to the past, I'm going to let them to the converting, not me.
We need more efficient solar so we can stop building nuclear plants and burning coal.
I agree, but let's don't even to try to compare the pollution or radioactive waste that comes out of a power plant to charge an electric car to the pollution that comes out of a tailpipe.
I'd rather have a single point of pollution that can be controlled better for 50,000 cars than 50,000 oil-burning cars, each polluting in their own unique way.
I don't think you were completely trying to make the point that "EV still has to be plugged in to a fossil-fuel plant, so they're no better than gas", but I've heard it made so many times that I get stabby when I see something like it.
Depends. I don't think we should have equal wealth.
However, history has shown than when a very small group has almost all of the wealth (thousands of times more) than the rest of the population, BAD THINGS happen.
Our current masters are only still in power because the majority still have reasonably comfortable lives, even if the wealth is very disproportionate. If the balance would tip enough that most people were starving, it wouldn't take long for the revolution.
Since the hardware hacking crowd has already taken apart the iPhone 5 & discovered that the camera is identical to the iPhone 4S, I'd say you're on to something.
The only thing that changed was the sapphire cover.
Done that. I'm on Comcast Business Class for my home. It isn't like this is the cheapest option, but they actually have techs that I can call and SOME of them can help me.
Hell call ANY regional carrier and ask about their IPV6 rollout plans
Comcast, evil though they may be, has one, and I'm on IPv6 now
The industry simply doesn't have enough trained techs with IPV6 knowledge and experience
We agree. This won't change until we see more adoption of it by ISPs. The techs need to start using it at home so they can use it at work.
I could go on, but my main point is that re-allocating the /8's only slightly delays the inevitable, so the idea of that needs to die. Ford isn't going to give its range back, and neither is the DoD or many of the others.
That was my main point, and the rest of this is us getting angry about other things, even those we might agree on.
So, would you be cool with the sheriff walking around town, opening people's doors, and sending letters to everyone that had an unlocked one?
What about all of the network admins that need to learn IPv6?
Most of us learn by doing. If I'm going to support IPv6 at the Fortune 500 I work for someday (years from now, I bet), I'd like to have years of USING IPv6 on my home network first.
Sure, I can setup an isolated network, but nothing speeds up my learning process like breaking my home network & having my wife & kids upset that nothing works.
FYI, Apple iOS - check. Have IPv6 on my iPad.
Note, this is on WiFi. Apple iOS 6 supports this over LTE, but Verizon has not given me a IPv6 address yet.
if the DoD is sitting on a class A and only using a couple of thousand addresses you could redistribute all of their unused ones and not change a single thing about how they work
So, you already know for a fact that they're not using a couple of thousand address spread across their entire /8? What if they're using 7.1.1.1, 7.2.1.1, etc? That would only be 256 addresses, but would be a non-trivial change to their internal routing.
Get over it & deploy IPv6. I'm sick of hearing ANY defense of the idea of re-allocating /8's.
The irony of your low-uid username and this comment is awesome.
They're only 0-1 right now. That's hardly exploding phones.
Lets give them 15 more releases & look for explosions, or a team change.
I know that I, along with many others, logged on to Microsoft's Connect site & suggested turning off Metro by default if a mouse was detected. Leave the option to turn if back on if you wish.
One simple change that would have stopped so much backlash, and it was suggested in PLENTY of time to implement it.
It was ignored. I'd love to know who made that call.
**Also suggested was with mouse detection or multiple monitors detected to run Metro apps within a window instead of full screen.