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the analogies implied in words like "file" or "folder" no longer accurately describe the functions

For someone like me who grew up with computers almost from day one, catching the tail end of the BBS era and nearly all of the Web, it's actually more difficult to think of physical file folders than digital storage when I hear the words "file" and "folder." The meanings of those two words are entirely digital in my mind, and the physical analogies are the anomaly that requires extra conscious effort to process.
Oh, I'm sure they did. Are you a virgin?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/awooster/4483136943/
It could be more pernicious than that: IPv4, because of the potential lack of addresses, is very good at centralizing the network. For instance, most ISPs don't offer it's customers a fixed IP address. It makes installing servers more difficult. Some ISPs even share IP addresses between customers. It makes installing servers impossible. The result is a more centralized network, where you more or less have to blog and mail through big companies' servers.

The stakes are very high. A centralized network provides huge opportunities for analysis and targeted advertisement (read: spying and manipulation). IPv6, by providing an internet address to every device on this planet, is a threat to that model. However, clinging to that model is not directly making money from IP addresses, so the ICANN may not be able to do anything about telco dragging their feet.
Entrepreneurship is the truest form of meritocracy

Great point - I worked for a big company before I had a startup, where they claimed to have a culture of meritocracy. The trouble is that large organisations are too standardized to ever be truly meritocratic. People are generally banded based on perceived ability, but there must be such variation between those in each band, meaning you are rewarding people of varying abilities the same. This type of system is slow and fails to take in to account outliers.
It wouldn't happen on the iPhone/iPad. Making any references to Steve Jobs (even slight ones) is against App Store policy.
RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYDL_ZHMdvU&feature=relat...
protip from someone that slogged through the trenches of the social app boom: Don't spam your users. If the effectively-zero click-through-rate doesn't hurt you, then the channel controller (facebook) will shut down the spam vector.

Or: Don't be a dick to your users. Make something of value and send messages when you have real content.
The rise of cable news is probably one of the worst things that has ever happened to this country. It turns news into entertainment and sport. No mystery why Fox News is popular. The echo chamber of cable news has also dragged down the quality/substance of the network news programs as well. That's where the overwhelming majority of people get their TV news. Even newspapers are not immune. It's terrible that this small but rabid viewership of cable news is allowed to have such a disproportionate impact on the entire news industry. I think CNN would be wise to position themselves as a more serious substantive alternative. I don't see how they beat Fox News at entertainment/sport. I'm actually surprised MSNBC hasn't pulled ahead of CNN yet since they indulge in most of the same gimmicks as Fox News. That probably speaks more to the demographics of these rapid cable news junkies.
Agreed, and corrected. Sorry to draw with a broad brush, these are late night ramblings of my very subjective observations. I have not lived in all of Europe to know local laws. Would actually be curious how this problem (dog poo) is handled in different countries.
The world according to Zed:

Putting your shoes on the table: Arrogant & impolite

Swearing a lot: A OK!

I don't know why he's so upset with feces on the table when you consider what comes out of his mouth.

Note: I like to swear as well, but I don't go around being miss manners.
Yes, a crisis within the next 2-4 years is going to force the issue. This crisis will cause a major disruption to the way the internet works and will affect every industry. The sad thing is it didn't have to come to this, notice that this article refers to discussions from 2002, if the IPv6 transition had been managed correctly we would now be completing the transition instead of barely beginning it.
Are we moving away from accessible design?
I suspect wmf meant "uses more power", not "is more computationally powerful".
Not to mention the "bugs" (at least the few I bothered to inspect) consist of:

- missing close-quote

- missing expression in return statement of non-void function

- missing semicolon

Seriously, who cares? If it doesn't even compile (first and third), is it an interesting bug? Not to me. The second is slightly less so, but still not very interesting -- any sane combination of compiler flags will emit a warning about this that you'd have to be an idiot to ignore.

Though in 10 seconds, finding any "real" bugs would be a joke too -- so frankly I don't really see the point.
"It gets worse. The IPv6 designers don't have a transition plan"

This is either an old article or the author is not up to speed. Good example why you should date your articles. I met with Cisco a couple months ago and they detailed their IPV6 strategy to us from the service provider perspective. In short: They're throwing a bunch of different strategies at the problem to cover all the bases. It's not an elegant solution. More like brute force with a focus on preserving total interoperability. This stuff is already in the wild today on a small scale. It works. Comcast, COX, TWC, etc all have active deployments and are looking at large scale rollouts over the next year.

http://www.ict-partner.net/en/US/prod/collateral/iosswrel/ps...
If there are vents you need to keep unobstructed, this has implications for using it in bed, say. I once fried a laptop's graphics card by leaving it on a bed. Modern components should have heat-triggered shutdown mechanisms, but your average consumer is completely ignorant of such things and will think it's broken when it suddenly blacks out.
If you count embedded SSD, Apple and Samsung share the throne.
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I find it quite incredible that so many Americans, mostly from SF, report seeing such things, indeed talking about them as if they're a normal part of everyday life. I have lived in a few places, mostly in Australia and Asia, all of them big cities and all of them with significant homeless populations, and have never, ever seen that kind of thing.

What is it about American homeless that they lack even the basic human dignity to find a toilet to take a dump in? Or hell, at least a drain or somewhere their shit will wash away? Are they that disconnected from society? Or is it a calculated thing, like vandalism, revenge against a society they hate? It's nuts.

Sure, I've seen people shit in public. Once a friend had severe stomach cramps while walking through a park in central Sydney; she rushed into the bushes to relieve the pain. And while I was living around there I regularly saw women (it always seems to be women) crouching over drains in the street outside my apartment. Hey, I understand, when you gotta go, you gotta go, and severe diarrhoea makes people desperate. That's fine. But never with this total lack of dignity and respect that SF residents seem to experience.
Oblivious algorithms have uses besides avoiding side channels (example: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/papers/slabpose.pdf) -- though I can't see as sore a need for an automated check of obliviousness in their case.
It's ok, they've found another spam vector: email notifications, which seem to still be up.

An app I have't used in ages emailed me yesterday trying to sell me calling cards (this is not in any way related to the app at all).

Reported to facebook, hopefully that hole will be closed soon also.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: the people who work for the bureaucracy will always gain control of the people who work for the organization's goals.
As if the number of servers using IPv6 mattered the slightest. It does not. What matters is the number of IPv6 servers that can talk to all clients. That means IPv4 clients as well (they are the majority, after all).

Being connected to the internet means being able to talk to every single machine on that network. If a computer can't talk to IPv4 computers, then it is by definition not connected to the internet.

We can't split the network. If we have to do it to switch to IPv6, then it just won't happen. Ever. To avoid splitting the network IPv4 and IPv6 machine have to be able to talk together.

So, as long as IPv6 and IPv4 computers can't talk to each other, we will be limited to the back end servers you are talking about. Until we go beyond that point, IPv6 will stay relatively useless.
"Also, swear words were thrown in not because they added anything to the piece, but rather because he could."

Well, some people use vulgarity the way others put their feet on the table.
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ah, ok, i misunderstood how broadly you were using the word "transaction". makes sense, thanks.
No, you DON'T have a choice; if you still want to play online/purchase games from the playstation store/play any new game published after this firmware release/use the chat functionality of the machine. Where is the "fairness"? I purchased the machine specifically because of the multi-function aspect, including being able to run Linux on it. I purchased the games I wished to play, both from the playstation store and retail. It was only 6 months ago that this was posted: "On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 09:58 -0700, geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com wrote: The feature of “Install Other OS” was removed from the new “Slim” PS3 model to focus on delivering games and other entertainment content. Please be assured that SCE is committed to continue the support for previously sold models that have the “Install Other OS” feature and that this feature will not be disabled in future firmware releases." Lying bastard japanese pricks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, absolutely.. it's impossible to predict the future. But yes, looking at the current data the whole argument seems to fall apart: As far as I know, the movie industry is doing better and better each year, and I think the same is true for TV. Reality TV shows certainly represent successful change.

I agree that the middlemen are the ones that _should_ be in trouble, just like in the music industry. If successful TV and music can be produced without studios or actually distributing anything physically, the result should be a more direct system. It could be that the change is happening while at the same time the whole entertainment market is growing hugely (more and more people living comfortable lives, devices that make it easy to grab entertainment time where available), so that even failing businesses are growing, just slower than the whole market is expanding.
Unlikely, I think a crisis in 2-4 years will cause a painless transition to IPV6.
> I don't think it is common anywhere in Europe at all.

It's considered very, very rude.
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I hate April 1. - now I can't tell if this is just a joke (that I don't get) or something serious.
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They finally reverted the spatial Nautilus bullshit in the just-released Gnome 2.30 -- there was an intentionally-confusing preference to turn it off before, but now it'll be off by default, and replaced by a newly-improved browsing interface.

They originally implemented it after being inspired by some mactard ravings against all the improvements made in OS X's Finder: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/04/finder.ars/2
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The article is dated, but not outdated. The page you linked to is clear: "IPv4 and IPv6 protocols are not directly compatible, and hence various techniques are necessary for their coexistence". If IPv6 were compatible with IPv4 in the first place, the "various techniques" wouldn't be necessary, and transition would have taken years, not decades.
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My guess is China and/or India will come up with their own solutions for transition and the rest of the world will be forced to follow that. It will probably represent a defining moment in history of the internet, when leadership passes from the West to the East.
Good bye, Helium...
maybe what we need to do is have servers/networks that validate that whether a client supports IP6 or not. And if it doesn't, start serving those requests more slowly than others.

Of course, that means a lot of code changes. but it will definitely create incentives to get ready for a change

if speed declines for you 10% a month for a year, you'll consider upgrading. and if outages are scheduled for you that at first last 5 minutes, then 15, then 30, eventually I expect people will take the actions required to get ready for a scheduled switch to IP6

its all a bit heavy handed though. its much better if we gave people more performance for making the switch and somehow passed the real costs of the delay on to people that insist on delaying.

maybe we should just have a market price for ip4 addresses and you pay that price unless you upgrade
I don't think it's a bad thing. Ruby 1.9.1 needs to go. There are a number of bugs and quirks in 1.9.1 which have been fixed in 1.9.2. E.g. while developing Phusion Passenger I've noticed some VM deadlock bugs, all of which are now fixed.
From Markus' post

"This is why you don’t build companies that are completely dependent on the whim of another company."

Of course, an advertising supported dating site who's revenue comes primarily from Adsense doesn't come under this sweeping generalisation does it...
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Or it will cause massive adoption of large scale NAT, which will further centralize the internet. Because such centralization favour few, huge, powerful players, we may not see the transition at all.

I just hope the current attitude of Cisco is proving me wrong.
Not disagreeing with you there. I upvoted you.
Just a comment on the final point. Most investment bankers don't hate their jobs, most love their jobs. If you hate the job and are just in it for the money you'll burn out and drop out pretty quickly. Investment Banking is pretty much dominated by people who love doing what they do, probably more so than the vast majority of other industries.
The problem is giving up performance for the current overwhelming majority of computers. Slowing down YouTube slowing down for IPv4 computer won't create an incentive to upgrade those computers. It will be an incentive to leave YouTube for a faster competitor.

This strategy requires a whole group of players to move simultaneously. We're back to the chicken-and-egg problem.
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Yes very good point.

Simplicity on consumption (user) side can require massive scale complexity on the production side.

iPhone is grandma-level simplicity to use, but hard to replicate by competitors (despite massive investment by Nokia, Microsoft, RIM, etc, they have not been able to replicate the iPhone user experience, an experience which goes beyond the device to the ecosystem of AppStore, iTunes, etc)

Another example is Google search, which from the user perspective is one simple text-entry box plus one graphic and 12 words of text on the page. But on the other end of the wire is a server farm of a million machines and rocket-science algorithms, software infrastructure and operational processes.
This kinda made me feel sad; numeric keypad access, automatic deletion, annoying menus: that's what I have right now. Damn CRTC & Canadian carriers for not letting this into Canada.
It would be interesting if the USA and China were to split on Internet Protocol at that point.
Joel on Software - a summary, part 2: 2001.
Swearing in English doesn't upset people not from the USA
Yes you are probably the only one.

You can't automate hiring & managing coders, while you can automate purchasing & maintaining infrastructure.
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To paraphrase Zed:

"Swearing a lot in someone's face is a way of saying you're in charge, but you're totally laid back man."
it could maybe be clearer, "another single company"

plentyoffish can change advertising networks, these people cant change social networks if they want to be where people are.
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I strongly prefer the former type of people. Sticks and stones motherfucker, sticks and stones...
Anybody knows what's the deal with rspec finally supporting Rails 3?
Wow, that's one element I didn't consider scarce, but it makes sense.
If exponential progress of technology keeps up, 12 years until we are getting helium from the moon?
Because one doesn't spread diseases by swearing.
I can't make sense of this. What correlation are you talking about?
Summary:

UI researchers can't easily add new features designed to make software easy to use to existing software. This is a particular problem with closed source software. "Prefab" is a tool that looks at the pixels on the display and infers what the underlying UI widgets are. Once this is done, additional features can be retrospectively added. This functionality is platform independent, and is demonstrated to run on YouTube videos (Flash), Mac, and PC.

Examples of functionality that can be added:

"Bubble cursor" - highlighting of the nearest UI element to the cursor as if the hit area of the cursor dynamically increased to the nearest element.

Dynamic mouse acceleration change when cursor on a UI element

Animation to indicate state changes in UI elements such as tabs, sliders and checkboxes

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Reading about Helium on Wikipedia, I get the impression that it's far from as rare - neither in natural occurance nor in natural or artificial production - as this article would like to suggest.

"In the Earth's heterosphere, a part of the upper atmosphere, helium and other lighter gases are the most abundant elements."

"In this way an estimated 3000 metric tons of helium are generated per year throughout the lithosphere."

And as both Wiki and the article points out, the biggest "reserve" is found in natural gas - which Europe, with Russia in particular, has vast abundances of. Not sure with what concentration our European gas deposits hold Helium, though.

I'm not sure which source to trust here on the topic of Helium being this rare.
I'm with you all the way. Also, I could (and likely would) call them out by telling them why I'm leaving. I see it from both sides. In general, I feel most comfortable on my laptop with my feet elevated and my ear-cans on. I can go for hours upon hours at a time without taking a break, in the zone. Desk life just never seems to work quite that well for me.
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Dog shit in Berlin - it's really awful. Sometimes I dream about founding a dog free city.

It's not the dogs fault, but I simply like my surroundings shit free. Unfortunately, I can't think of any way for that problem to go away. Certainly in Berlin a solution seems millenia away (while some other cities managed to agree on fines for dog shit on the street).
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RIP Dr Henry Roberts (inventor of Altair 8800)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8600493.stm
The main thing I don't like about dog (owners) is that you are supposed to tolerate them licking and rubbing against your trousers. Dog owners and non-dog owners would get along a lot better if dog owners would simply keep their dogs to themselves. I don't want to be introduced to dogs, thanks.
An odd article. He seems to think there ought to be a Grand Plan forcing the transition.

Servers can have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, there's no need for everyone to just switch over at once.

I strongly suspect that the big providers will start rolling it out over the next couple of years, and that this will filter down to local users after that.

My main problem is that very few home routers support IPv6, so they'll need to be replaced. But this can happen over time, with people on IPv4 being behind NAT, and thus having less accessibility to soem applications, they can make their own choices about when to upgrade.
Farting smells. Feet on the table doesn't (well, hopefully not).
Most importantly, if (I agree, it's a big if) we ever manage to get nuclear fusion running, we'll have all the helium we need:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ug/hussainw/fusion.jpg
I for one, am very sad about this :)
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> Unfortunately, I can't think of any way for that problem to go away.

Require owners to pick it up... You get a ticket in my city if you don't.
Who said putting your feet up is bad manners? It may be overly casual, familiar, or informal, but that's only bad manners in a setting that requires formality or involves people with whom you aren't familiar.

Manners are relative, anyway. Some people think it's bad manners to put your elbows on the dining table. Others couldn't care less.
Indeed.. But it's probably only been in the last decade, or 15 years that picking up dog poo has become a norm.
I know, but in Berlin it seems to be such a deeply ingrained tradition to let dogs shit everywhere that I don't see a chance for that law to pass.

Actually it might even exist, but nobody cares and nobody enforces it.
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Macworld took possession of an iPad Thursday morning, and for the last few hours we've been poring over it, taking photos and screen shots, trying out accessories, and tapping through every app on the device.
Where did I see that article about the stages of Apple product launches? It went:

* It's announced
* Blogs hate it
* Blogs love it
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* Everybody buys one

I believe we are right on schedule.
Pay attention to the way they display tags on the left, very clever.
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