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Just tacking on more numbers becomes a problem because IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long and not 32 bits like IPv4. 1.1.209.85.255.147 is only a 48 bit number. An example of a 128 bit IP address in decimal would be 209.85.255.147.236.152.95.220.51.119.152.21.201.103.118.1 Having to use up to 64 digits to describe one address is not efficient, even if using only numbers are easier to say or remember than alphanumeric hex.

It is a clever way to get around the fact that FPS games are ridiculously clumsy on iOS. Rail shooters were replaced by FPS games about a decade ago with the use of mouselook. No mouselook on iOS means we need to rethink what games are made for the device. Try Nova or EliminatePro for iTouch/Phone/Pad, those FPS games have controls which are much less precise than a console gamepad which is much less precise than mouselook. If you were the developer given a hugely detailed first person environment but were constrained by touch and accelerometer controls, what type of game would you make?

This is why most companies use virtual desktop such on VPNs when remote computers log in. The actual data can be accessed without being permanently stored on the remote PC which is logging in. Many large corporations have specific rule regarding thumb drives. For example, my last employer only allowed files which cleared compliance for client consumption to be put on thumb drives.

It seems like it could affect GMail and online backup sites, the argument against MP3Tunes is that letting people store their files in online password protected storage is analogous to making illegal copies. It would be crazy if GMail scrubbed all of my attachments or Carbonite checked my online disks to make sure that I didn't have copyrighted materials. This judgement would not affect Pandora or Usenet.

It goes much further than a dollar not spent on content a dollar that can be spent on hardware. In a world where copyright material is never shared for free, imagine what the demand would be for 64 GB mp3 players, 1 TB harddisks and media extender boxes. Major sections of the hardware market would go down the tubes when 50 GB of data seems monstrous again like during the pre Napster days.

While you may attribute Microsoft's cageyness to an effort to enhance royalty revenue by not being clear on what they own, it is much more likely their large corporate structure and lawyers getting in the way. If someone asked Microsoft's PR what patents they now hold, the PR guy has no idea. He needs to go to the M&A team who did the deal and ask what exactly they now own. When the PR guy hears back he needs to do his job and put some spin on it to make Microsoft sound cutting edge yet not monopolist with the new IP. Then the PR guy needs to forward his response to legal, who will circle back around to M&A to cross check the facts. The legal guys will come back with a list of things that the company can't say and the PR guy will need to apply another round of spin to get around what the lawyers told him would't be fit to print. All of this will probably take a couple of weeks, so don't expect an immediate answer regarding the implications of the specific of a deal to UNIX, especially during the holidays.

I just watched a video of human Rhys Millen doing Pike's Peak in 12:09. The computer is only at half speed. At those speeds and with a good car like the TT, the computer shouldn't even have to use advanced cornering techniques. If it is a Sunday drive up Pike's Peak, even I could do that. I can see what they are trying to do by useing an autonomous vehicle on one of the world's most dangerous tracks. Just going 30 mph up the course completely misses the point of why the drive is considered to be so dangerous.

Do you know how I know you don't understand fractional reserve banking?

Ireland's banks are much larger as a % of GDP than most other European economies. Where, pray tell, did all of this money come from into the banks? Well hundreds of billions of Euros of it is from companies wanting a low tax european foothold. While people make note of the stupid loans Anglo Irish and the others made, don't forget that they were only able to make so many bad loans (and ti a certain point had to make a huge volume of loans they weren't comfortable with) because of all of the multinationals that are parking billions of dollars each in Ireland to avoid the taxes associated with repatriating that money. Can't blame the bad loans on only one side of the balance sheet. It is actually hard to run a bank when you get too many deposits because you need to lower your standards on loans to put all of those deposits to work.

Why perform security theater is nobody is in the audience. It isn't like terrorists are going to want to take down a cargo plane anyways.

A single channel of 1333 Mhz DDR3 RAM can transfer at approximately 11 GB/s. A 240 GB SSD usually has transfer rates of less than 300 MB/s. You pay more for expensive DRAM with an expensive 240 pin dual data rate interface because transfer rate and latency matter that much more in main memory than in storage.

I have to second this. My girlfriend is trilingual and is a professional translator. She jokes with her coworkers at how bad online automated translations are. Take a look at funnytranslator.com. After 30 online translations the phrase: "We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS and, moreover, is at the end of its life cycle." becomes: "The Linux Caozuojitong what life in Russia, you know."

Since when is a Sudoku puzzle 4 by 4 with 16 cells? I always played the nine by nine version with 81 cells.

Could you cite specific applications with huge non-shrinkable windows? I don't seem to have a problem with with Ubuntu or Windows XP on my IBM X41 (1024x768 screen). Saying "most apps" aren't usable with XP may be a bit of an exaggeration, especially since modern netbooks have a native resolution of 1366x768. Windows XP officially supports 800x600 and I can confirm that it works at this resolution. Only the first generation of netbooks, such as the ASUS 700 series, had a resolution smaller than 800x600 but Windows XP will still install on these machines anyways.