Actually I misread. Mod me down.

Hilarious. You're complaining because they tested it in the atmosphere, and the thread above you has a guy complaining because they tested it in a vacuum chamber.

Silverlight does not target Flash, it targets the Silverlight runtime.

No. First of all, 1 byte != 1 packet. And if you were measuring in bytes per second, which bytes? 7-bit? 8-bit? Bytes are at a different layer. If anything, you might want to measure symbols per second, but then that can vary as well.

Indeed!

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What time fiddling? When was the last time you used Windows?

Uh, IPv6 autoconfiguration?

And who renumbers? No one should be typing in IPs anywhere anymore. DHCPv6 and DNS and now you're done.

That would have been awesome, we were just remarking in the office how cool it would be to tour those labs!

I'm guessing this is one of those cases where this is the best chance to get experimental results that will open or close lots of doors. And yes, it does seem like an extremely long time, but with funding and skepticism about fusion where it is, and with how extremely complicated something like this is, I'm not sure if I would have really expected it to go any faster.

However, if we get an actual nuclear fusion power plant by 2050, I think looking back in a couple of hundred years people will be impressed at how fast the technology was developed at all. We've only been at a point technologically where something like this is even thinkable for less than 100 years. I think that if I were working on a project like this, dedicating most of my career to it would be worthwhile if only to move this along in some way. If it works, it's pretty much humanity's game-changer.

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Why? Windows 3.1 was just taken out of support last year.

And solutions like this one used for the military are typically given longer support lifetimes. And they probably have the Win2k source, as well.