...but how do you pay for the Journal?
What is there to pay for?
So what remains is the salary of the editor and some administrative overhead, which should not be too onerous for even a minor institution.
You call that a large country with a lot of rural areas?
By European standards, France is a large country (roughly 1000km across), with some rather sparsely populated areas (the Northern Alps and the Massif Central). France also has a strong tradition of massive, nation-wide infrastructure projects (we've had a comprehensive high-speed train network since the 1980s), so a nation-wide broadband infrastructure is a natural thing to do.
Now this is a large country with a lot of rural areas!
That thing is continent-sized, not country-sized.
You might be misunderstanding. Persians and Americans are actually natural allies: we both want a stable Persian Gulf region, and together could provide it, as we did prior to 1979.
You are aware that the CIA put the Iranian dictator into power in 1953, toppling Iran's democratically-elected government in the process? The 1979 "Islamic Revolution" merely replaced a dictatorship controlled by the USA with one that wasn't.
Comcast did the transition anyway, because, as I understand it, it made good business sense for them other reasons.
Could you please explain?
Whats the worm traffic (ssh and other) on the IPv6 internet?
According to the network administrators I've spoken to (admittedly a biased sample), almost all the malware traffic they're seeing is over IPv4. They say they'll deal with IPv6 malware when it appears.
NAT has never ever had any packet inspection in it's specification.
The closest thing to a NAT specification is RFC 2663, an informational RFC that was published a good four years after NAT got deployed. It explicitly speaks about deep packet inspection:
One of the most popular internet applications "FTP" would not work with the definition of NAT as described. The following sub-section is devoted to describing how FTP is supported on NAT devices. FTP ALG is an integral part of most NAT implementations. Some vendors may choose to include additional ALGs to custom support other applications on the NAT device.
(ALG means "Application Layer Gateway".)
Its that like Military grade NAT and Combat ready NAT?
Yes, it should have been called ISP-side NAT (as opposed to the more usual customer-side NAT), but the marketing people thought otherwise.
--jch
What matters is not that every site adopt IPv6, but that enough sites adopt it that having an IPv6 connection gets you useful value.
It's natural that people should be focusing on the web, but the web is really a non-issue -- we know how to proxy HTTP efficiently, so HTTP sites staying on IPv4 is at worst a minor inconvenience.
What urgently needs to move are protocols that are difficult to proxy, either because they have a complex structure (BitTorrent, SIP) or because the added latency hit is problematic (SIP, Skype, most online games). You really want enough of your BitTorrent peers to implement IPv6 support, so you can get your Linux distributions fast.
The most impressive thing is that we can actually measure this minute effect
According to Wikipedia, it's 8.74×10^10 m/s^2. If you integrate that over fourty years, that's 17000 km, or 55 ms light-speed delay, which should not be too difficult to detect.
--jch
--jch
Since it's not clear from your post, the Surface (even the RT version) can do all of that.
Since it's not clear from your post, the Surface (especially the crippled RT version) cannot do most of that.
I don't think any of the current editors support syntax highlighting for it
[...]
There is not yet a LaTeX compiler available for RT
[...]
you need a dongle
See?
On the other hand, sometimes more productivity makes it worthwhile.
Thanks for your concern, but I'm quite productive on my cheap netbook — the battery lasts over 8 hours, and the keyboard is good enough for a sustained 65wpm. The only reason I'd consider a tablet is the weight: the netbook weighs 1.1kg, which is 400g more than a lightweight tablet. But I wouldn't consider anything as crippled as the Surface.
- too expensive
Compared to what?
Compared to a laptop.
The netbook I currently use on trips cost €220. Since it's fully encrypted, it means that having it stolen or leaving it on the train is a fairly minor annoyance (I've had one stolen already).
Since I have a nice laptop at home and a nice desktop at work, I'd gladly replace it with a tablet, as long as I can encrypt the flash, view PDFs, run LaTeX, and plug in a projector. But not at that price.
it's nice to see GNU Emacs finally bothering to catch up to these ten-year-old XEmacs features.
I've always wondered why FSF Emacs couldn't implement a package system...
They might be waiting for the tech savvy slashdot folks to lead the way...
$ host -t aaaa lwn.net
lwn.net has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa arstechnica.com
arstechnica.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa tomshardware.com
tomshardware.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa phoronix.com
phoronix.com has no AAAA record
$ host -t aaaa smallnetbuilder.com
smallnetbuilder.com has no AAAA record
We want to create puppets that pull their own strings. - Ann Marion