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A Humorous Introduction To IPv6 288

zollman writes "Jonathan Richards, in the London times, explains how the introduction of IPv6 will change the Internet. From the article: 'As use [of the Internet] grew, it became clear that the old protocol, IPv4, wasn't big enough, so a new one was created using 32-bit numbers. That increased the number of available addresses to 340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion -- enough for the foreseeable future.'"

Biggest Obstacle of Nuclear Fusion Overcome? 444

Yetihehe writes "Nuclear fusion could become a more viable energy solution with the discovery of way to prevent super-hot gases from causing damage within reactors. The potential solution, tested at an experimental reactor in San Diego, US, could make the next generation of fusion reactors more efficient, saving hundreds of millions of euros a year."

Comment Why is everyone so happy about this? (Score 2) 379

Yes the MHz == performance thing promulgated by
Intel was BS (and BS that seemed to flow so
deep that they would engineer in superlong
pipelines etc ...)

And yes, the computer architectures that can now
flourish with the Mhz race slowing down will
be exciting (In years past many such research
projects died because by the time they were done
the march of Moores law had resulted in a faster
conventional architecture).

BUT: There is all kinds of exciting ideas that
were being made possible by faster and faster
processors (including immersive VR words,
new kinds of programming, new UI models, image
recognition ...).

If this is genuinely a community of computing
enthusiasts should we also not be sad if this
is slowing down.

- Mudchicken

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