I think this is a sign that DNS needs getting replaced with a non-centralized system.
Is there anybody working on such a thing?
Good luck with that. This is an industry that hasn't replaced IPv4 despite 15 years of warnings. An industry in which horrifyingly broken and insecure protocols such as SMTP and FTP are still ubiquitous. Once something is widely deployed, it basically cannot be changed, or only changed over the span of decades.
ssembler still used in much of the kernel.
Umm... no. Assembler is used in very little of the kernel. Just a few performance-critical places, like spinlocks, compare-and-swap, and parts of the HAL if I remember correctly. That's why it is fairly easy to port the NT kernel to other architectures (MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC and now ARM).
WTF? Safari updates on OSX require a reboot? Even MSFT has finally figured out how to do (some) IE updates without reboots on Win7 and 2008r2.
Actually, now that I think about it, every recent Ubuntu 10.04 Server update has also given me the **system restart requried** banner, even when there wasn't a kernel update.
I guess those re-bootless updates on **NIX were always a myth.
The problem is, there's nothing quite like Amazon right now
Rackspace's Cloud is about as close as it gets. They are the clear #2 player in the IaaS market. DCs in Chicago, Dallas, VA, and Cali as I recall. Not quite as mature as AWS from a features standpoint, but they seem to have made better design choices in many ways. No transient instances that disappear all your data for example. They just introduced a feature comparable to ELB as well.
Any gateway router with recent firmware will have IPv6, you just enable it.
Ahh, but that is the problem. Who is going to enable IPv6 for grandma?
All Internet-connected appliances really need an auto-update function turned on these days (which can be disabled if the user chooses). Yes, that increases some risks, and but it solves many more important ones (such as security patching). QA needs to be rock-solid for those updates, and vendors can't abandon devices after six months as they do now. Vizio seems to do a good job with this: my internet-enabled TV updates itself every few months, and new features just appear. Shocked me the first time it happened, but I like the new features and bug fixes, and the product I bought has actually gotten better after I bought it!
Grandma should not need to "apply firmware update and turn on IPv6" on her Linksys that her grandchild set up for her.
So I have come to the conclusion that the solution is legislation.
Yes, please! Put the politicians in charge! What could possibly go wrong? I look forward to the Department of Address Education and its budget which increases by 15% every year.
First, there is no standard for WebM bandwidth-adaptive streaming yet, over HTTP or any other protocol. Secondly, a quote from that site:
One word about the adaptive bitrate mechanism on WebM : contrary to other OTT technologies, adaptive bitrate settings are controlled on the server side only...
So, it holds state on the server, meaning it requires custom server software, and therefore doesn't scale cheaply. The beauty of the streaming-over-HTTP solutions is that you can take advantage of the huge number of caches in CDNs, ISPs, and corporations for free. We did some testing, and around 75% of our visitors are behind some form of caching proxy (we're a B2B company). That means as much as 50% of our video bill can be covered for free by our customers if we switch to an HTTP based streaming solution. Note that progressive download over HTTP doesn't get high hit ratios, because many (most?) caches have some default maximum file size limits to prevent one user from blowing out the cache. HTTP-based streaming, with its smallish (10-second) chunking, solves that problem.
Except 48 Hz -> 60 Hz is basically the same problem as 24 Hz -> 30 Hz, which is already a mostly solved. So the same pull-up/pull-down/blending solutions (which are admittedly non-ideal) can be used. I think all recent HDMI/LCD based consumer and pro gear is already capable of 1080p48 or can be made so with a simple software update (since the gear already supports 1080p60).
The real reason not to go all the way to 60 Hz has to be associated production costs: that's 25% more storage, bandwidth, encoding time, effects rendering time, etc. with little visible benefit over 48 Hz for theatrical content.
Why is this better than a 12-core Opteron with quad-channel DDR3?
Because each Intel core is a lot faster than each of the 12 cores on the latest Opterons. For many workloads, single-thread performance still matters. Search for "SPECint2006 Rate" results on the latest processors - a latest-gen Intel core is about twice as fast as an AMD Bulldozer core. 2*10 > 12
I personally think this guy is a little bit stupid in his head.
As opposed to "stupid in his ballsack"? Where else can you be stupid besides the head, exactly? Is this "stupid in his head" some newfangled slang you faceplace and twaddler kids use?
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The people I don't mind. It's the corporations that are the problem. They are single-minded golems that only know how to feed themselves.
Funny, many including myself feel exactly the same way about government. Despite massive failures, ineffciency, gross negligence, and outright harm to the citizenry, government programs continue to grow at rates far exceeding GDP, tax revenue, or inflation. The reasons are many, but the core problem is as P.J. O'Rourke said: "You spend other people's money on other people. And in this case, who gives a shit?"
Love makes the world go 'round, with a little help from intrinsic angular momentum.