Instead of wasting time with 'converting' to new tech, I would prefer that they updated their course material and changed their method so it's more applicable in real life.
Real life in which everybody has internet access, almost always.
Sure, it's important that certain things are learned by heart, very sure.
But certain things simply are not.

Insight questions, those are the important ones.

But hey, who am I kidding, the school system will probably never change. Until our robot overlords do ;)

Point taken... Zothecula's summary is however misleading, and it still will remain to be seen if this thing will be able to survive the lunar night ;)

Damn, there goes my carefully generated karma...

Another bright idea to put solar panels in the 'permanently shadowed craters'? Way to go! Physics 101!

I hope the GPLv4 will finally reveal that the G isn't recursive at all!

The G stands for Good Public License, and it will prohibit use of our software in weapons, weapon installations and military applications.

Go Richard Stallman, make me proud!

I don't get it... if a naked breast is visible, Google blocks it. But if millions of people find it 'offensive', then they don't?

Google gets stuck in a 'do no evil'-mantra, but don't get that is understood differently by different people/cultures.

I think religion is stupid, but ignoring hundreds of million of people is even more so...

There are some simple things that might improve things a lot! But simple is not necessarily simple. HOWEVER! Just look at the 3 most used applications by us; the power users, and veterans: Terminal, Firefox and LibreOffice. Look at the shortcuts of COPY, PASTE. Yes. Copy/paste. In these main 3 applications they are different. For over a few decades it's like that! WTF The Linux Standard Base, can start out with a simple thing like this. It would be nice if they could pull it off. Start out small and humble, and improve things. That's what can make things better. But neither Firefox nor LibreOffice nor terminal emulators will change this without proper motivation. Yet it isn't difficult to realize the necessity to get these thing right...

Why not go to a FriendlyARM Mini2440? For about $150 you can pick it up from http://www.aliexpress.com/ and you have a full fledged Linux board with plenty of i/o and touch screen...
Happy hacking! Jasper

Who is over thinking things? A customer goes to an Apple store, or in-store Apple corner. And he sees in front of him:
The iPad 2 and The iPad.

What do you think he will prefer?

Not calling that a huge marketing mistake, seems silly to me.
When Steve went for the iPad 2 name, he asked for numbers.

But hey, don't get me wrong, it's a wonderful product. With super innovation with respect to screen and the required sw and hw to support that. I'm happy for that as it will lead to better products in the Android tablet ecosystem as well.
Android made a few mistakes Apple made in the early nineties, and will gain the technological benefit from that. However, it is sad to see that the no-longer-underdog biggest IT company in the world, also wants to resort to monopolistic tactics to even further its grip on the market.

And then I'm talking about the closed nature of the iPhone and the iPad, not opening it up. Locking customers in. Closing down installing applications except from the App Store, BY DEFAULT on the next version of MacOS. Sad!

The underdog has to be careful to not become the bully!

You mean as in MacBook Pro? So it will be iPad Pro? ;) The point is, the name is something Steve would never have forgotten... it's the heart of the marketing ploy... Steve would use it in many sentences. A linguistic analysis of the past Steve performances would have been a ood idea for Tim.

... no he is no Steve Jobs, he even forgot to tell the public WHAT THE NEW IPAD IS CALLED! ... ipad 3, ipad HD? iPad Retina? He could have done better!

Quantum computers... will probably work.
But I guess I'll stick with certainty...

It just will not happen. Many embedded devices build today don't even enable the IPv6 stack while it's only a configurable option away in the Linux kernel. And these devices aren't even released yet. They will after release run for a decade in the infrastructure. Sure we tell people who make them to care. Yet mostly they have more important things to care about, as for example to get them working in the first place.

An extra screen in the config box to set a static IPv6 address on an embedded device? Not seen one yet... Why? Because these embedded boxes are typically run in a seperate VLAN in the company.

Corporate requirements for IPv6 are close to nonexistent, so nobody cares, nor will. It's not that I'm against IPv6, but one has to be realistic about what to expect from the rest of the world - and a drastic change without a game-changing urgent need is not one of these things.

And I'm still waiting for an example of any organization _ANY_ organization who needs to have in the order of 16 million directly communicating devices on their private network. Just a million will do as well. Probably Google is the only organization which comes close to that order.

And even for them, there is not really an important reason why their infrastructure could not be split up between the google search cloud as one 10.x.x.x range and the gmail infrastructure as another one, for example, as direct communication between the two is probably unnecessary and managed by separate teams anyway.

One could argue that the 'renumbering' is difficult. Yet the cluster which Google build handles server failover, swap-in and swap-out and data partitioning as one of the major features. Fail to see why they couldn't implement it on the 'private IPv4'-level either...

While I agree that on their scale, such an experiment might be valid, my guess is that it will remain as such;... an experiment with a lot of problems:
1) increased latency because of IPv6 tunneling - and Google is very latency conscious 2) less proven technology leading to exotic problems which show up even more at the Google scale - because nobody uses it

And for what?
To solve the 'we are too lazy to write a stupid IPv4 pool re-numbering/re-partitioning'-problem? While it can be done with a very small shell script(TM)? ;)

I agree that it's a hassle. But the hassle of using IPv6 is a _lot_ bigger. It's plainly stupid to try and fix a problem by creating a bigger problem.

17 million devices? Nah! Bad subnet planning; yes!

The NAT traversal problem has been solved by a lot of services/applications. And instead of asking the entire world to change their home routers and throw away their embedded devices, NAT solves most issues more or less. IPv6 introduces a lot more problems than it solves. And privacy concerns is one of them.