You are being funny but I've known guys with a couple of degrees that get taken by used car salesmen. The problem is there is "book smarts" and "street smarts" and just because you have one does NOT mean you have the other and in today's society you really do need both.

Now as far as the test in TFA? You'd probably need to give them an eye exam before giving them this "test" as that would be hard as hell to do if you didn't have 20/20 or an up to date prescription on your glasses, but on a positive note at least its not as irritating as the stupid word questions on the IQ test. The one I remember went something like "your neighbor cuts down a tree limb which then falls and damages your brand new car" and every single response they had was just so opposite compared to how any normal human being would ever act I just had to sit there and think what kind of person writes those tests because obviously they had never dealt with other human beings in their entire life.

Uhhh...the article was discussing what we consider "modern" Ethernet, your classic Ethernet jack (RJ45 I think? Its too damned early for me to be technical) running a star topography, so I didn't think I needed to spell out what I was talking about since TFA was talking about the same thing. I have heard of grammar nazis but who would have thought there were networking nazis? Not talking about you, the 40 ACs that all rushed to "correct" me without even bothering to look at TFS much less TFA.

And I never got to set up an ARCNET so I can't speak to that but I set up waaay too many of the token ring thinnet and I personally was damned glad when it died. Now if we can only get 1Gbps routers that do IPV6 as cheaply as we get the old 100Mbps IPV4 routers I'll be a happy camper.

Good, so its NOT just me then? Because I thought I was missing something, because it sure as hell looked from the numerous articles that they are getting instant change no matter what the distance which kinda does crap all over relativity. And does anybody have even the slightest inkling as to HOW the information is being transmitted? Is it energy, does space and distance no longer matter when you get to the quantum level?

Because while I've seen a lot of articles on entanglement I don't think I've even seen a guess as to HOW its happening, they merely state that it does.

Don't feel bad pal, I'm just a humble bass player and PC fixit guy and a lot of this stuff flew past at Mach 5. I can see though why Einstein didn't want to believe in QM though, as frankly the rules as we know them seem to go Alice In Wonderland when it gets into the quantum realm. I mean its YOU and not the photon that is entangled? Its not instant yet every article we've seen says it is? Hell I still can't wrap my head around this stuff, what we need is a "Quantum Mechanics for dummies" video course.

Because frankly even when they try for "layman's terms" I feel like the guy in Event Horizon "Fuck layman's terms, do you speak English?"

Dude you might not like them living outside. I don't know about the German ones but here we have what is locally called the "VC cockroach" named because it is as tough as the Viet Cong and those things are happy to live outside in the sewers...until the storm drains flood and then they'll try to climb up through the pipes and get into your house. Since they can live without worrying about poisons they get fricking HUGE, we are talking bigger than a grown man's thumb and tough as hell to kill, you can't use an ordinary fly-swat as it won't even stun 'em, you better have a shoe ready and be putting some arm behind your swing, TOUGH bastards.

The reason the repubs have stalled this is because they are happy to let it be privatized.

They have seriously tried to shut down NOAA because they wanted to privatize weather data collection in the past.

Yeah anybody who had used the old thinnet could have told you why Ethernet was gonna win, everything else was a bigger PITA, not to mention how one bad spot or flaky terminator could take out an entire LAN whereas with Ethernet if one went down it didn't break everything else.

So lets hear it for Ethernet, something that won NOT because some corporation rammed it through,or slipped enough money to the right hands, but because it was better than the alternatives.

What I want to know is how entanglement doesn't crap all over relativity since changing one changes the other no matter the distance instantly. Also does anybody have a clue as to HOW the state is transmitted instantly, no matter the distance? Simple logic says there has to be SOME connection between the two going on but so far it seems no matter how far away they are from each other its still instant,so how is it getting there? Is it some sort of energy? Does space mean nothing in the quantum realm?

If they can figure out how to get this stuff down reliably though it does open up some cool applications, space communications for instance.

Really? I think its more a testament to just how well NASA over-engineers and builds everything for the absolute worst case scenario that we get so much extra use out of these things. I mean look at how long Voyager has lasted way the hell out in the cold depths, that's a tough built ship right there.

But this is why I've always supported the robotics space exploration programs, with our current tech "meatbags in spaaace!" really doesn't make much sense. I mean when you figure in what it would take to get a crew of five to mars and back its just insanity, I remember seeing a video where they did the math and for a 3 month stay on the ground and round trip from here to there you'd have needed a ship bigger than the empire state building just to carry all the consumables and fuel needed, I don't even want to know how much it would cost for a stay as long as these rovers have had there. At the end of the day we can just get more done with the machine than we can with the man, our tech just isn't good enough right now to make "meatbags in spaace!" viable.

The only thing WebM has going for it is Google money, and we haven't seen any indication they are willing to put their money where their mouth is. As far as technical merits...what is wrong with Theora and Drac? I tried them both and they run nicely, Drac is better IMHO as it doesn't seem to need as many CPU cycles as Theora but both of them seemed to work decently.

But frankly I'll take any damned thing you have to offer over H.264, its a fricking pig. You take any video and without hardware acceleration to give it a way to cheat H.264 will suck more CPU cycles, more memory, and more bandwidth, especially when you compare it to Flash using VP6 which it is supposed to be replacing. I have found you can take a 2GHz Sempron single and run VP6 encoded flash just fine, the exact same video in H.264? It'll be a jerky slideshow on anything less than a dual core.

When you have to build hardware support in just for the damned thing to run without sucking cycles like a drunk sucking down a free mini-bar? Its not a good format folks. I have a feeling the reason H.264 was chosen is nothing but how many patents they have, it makes for a nice high barrier to entry for competition, and if its one thing we have seen over and over its these corps fricking hate having competition.

This is why I railed against H.264 in HTML V5, as MPEG-LA made it VERY clear when Mozilla tried dealing with them that there will NEVER be any license that covers downstream, ever.

The sad part is thanks to them being villains with good PR Apple will ram so much nasty shit through with HTML V5 its gonna be a corporate wet dream, but because so many devs dream of iMoney they won't say boo. Look at how many actually tried to excuse having HTML V5 stuck with H.264 over WebM or Theora or Drac with "Its open!". Bullshit, its a patent troll, and now its built in to the future of the web and I have no doubt Apple will get the DRM rammed through as well.

I feel a rant coming on..To all the guys that said "Anybody but M$!" that bought Apple products to stick to teh man? You deserve this, the point was to replace MSFT with something better NOT with something worse. The sad part is how many buy the bullshit, H.264 is worse in EVERY SINGLE METRIC over the Flash that its supposed to replace, worse in CPU, memory,bandwidth, and of course while Adobe let you package Flash with anything and even let there be a FOSS spinoff without so much as a C&D you're gonna replace it with a patent troll, because St Steve of Cupertino said it should be so. Did anybody ever think, for even a second, he just MIGHT have an ulterior motive? Like how Flash would let anybody host apps and games without going through his appstore?

What is fucking sad and pathetic is for the first time in history we have made truly insane amount of CPU power affordable to the masses, computers like something out of Dick Tracy you can throw in your pocket that can do just incredible things, and this huge web of knowledge that opens up everything, music, video, the world, yet we are gonna hand the whole damned thing over to the suits because they are good at the bullshit and they make shiny hipster toys...fuck! Wake the fuck up people, these are NOT nice guys! How many lawsuits have we seen from MPEG-LA in the past 5 years? How many from Apple? You are replacing a bumbling hamfisted company like MSFT with one that can actually pull off their nasty plans, doesn't anybody think this is a bad idea? Don't replace one master for another guys, that is just insanity.

Look up the first gun laws friend, hell look at how they demonized the Saturday Night Special...do you know who the #1 customer of that particular gun was? Blacks. I found out about it when watching a history show on guns and they had the head of the rainbow coalition talking about how for over a century every single gun law was nothing but "feared of an armed negro" because you can't lynch somebody that can defend themselves. This was followed by the pictures of the ones that brought this or that gun law to the floor and quotes by them that was....wow. It was amazing how many ways they had for saying nigger without actually saying the word, from "ghetto thugs" to "armed urban threat".

Not to mention the whole thing ignores the elephant rotting in the corner, that old Monty makes anybody working on MariaDB sign over their code so he could pull the same trick twice and sell it out from under them just as he sold MySQL.

Now don't get me wrong, I think Monty has big brass balls to be able to pull what he did last time and get away with it, he made them think they were actually buying a product in MySQL and in reality all they got was the name and the website, he ended up walking away with the code AND the customers, how he got them to buy without a do not compete I don't know but it took some big brass ones to pull it off.

But like the old saying goes "fool me once.." what is to stop Monty from pulling the same game with MariaDB? Nothing that I can see, he still has it set up so no matter who works on it HE owns the code, which means he can do whatever he wants with it. Now maybe he scammed enough off the last sale that this won't be appealing, maybe not, would you really want to take that chance?

Well anybody who has followed me here knows I'm quick to call out bullshit where i see it and saying "X is bad" because X can be used badly while ignoring that A-Z can likewise be made to run piss poor code? Bullshit.

And maybe I should have made myself more clear, when i think of server backends i think of one or more X86 units doing the job whereas the big iron is a completely different story. Sure it CAN be used as a generic server backend but considering how much those suckers cost that wouldn't be the brightest thing to do, last article i saw said the biggest growth for the mainframe were in these huge MMOs and military simulations, jobs where you would need such a huge pile of X86 units it just wouldn't be practical.

That's totally tubular, dudes!