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Ah, that's right, but IPv4-compatible addresses are no longer used in IPv4 to IPv6 transition; the only mechanisms used now are dual-stacks and tunneling. Why is article fallacious? It seems plausible with dual-stack scenario (when a node occupies two addresses). But yes, Paul Mockapetris is exaggerrating the problem.

IPv6 is a complete replacement intended to address the shortcomings of its predecessor and is not a commercial protocol, not a specific sub-version. That means if you want to communicate with everyone else, you have to support the common protocol for your IP datagrams to be routable over the Internet. Everyone has to use either IPv4 or IPv6, not mixed (and here comes the huge problems with migration to IPv6). The problem stated in the article that when designing IPv6 is related to the stage when transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will take place (not happening anytime soon). At this time every host will need to have 2 IP addresses (v4 + v6) to be able to communicate to both address realms. So if Vista will make 2 queries instead of 1, it will double DNS traffic. But I agree that the problem is exaggerrated.

So now there are 3 Nightwatch movies. That explains everything

It's a remake of a Danish film "Nattevagten" (same name), which is infinitely better.. they haven't captured the creppy feeling at all, they turn it into a kind of action-thriller which it wasn't supposed to be at all.. true hollywood for you! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Since when? Nightwatch is based on a novel, it is not a remake of another movie. Though I agree, it really is a disappointing movie.

That would mean CPU would have to compete with GPU for memory bus, as GPU is very memory intensive.

Primer on DVD. Now that I watch it again, it is the only sci-fi movie of recent years that I can call great. As well as it is the only movie that I'm compelled to watch more than once in the same week.

At least it is better than Killer NIC.

I have had a 2-year old second hand notebook die on me in the same manner, it wouldn't boot up or turn on at all. When I sent it to Sony repair service in Australia (official vendor), they told me it would cost around AU$2000 to replace the motherboard... (what???). Then I tried a garage repair shop, they fixed it for $50, and power supply was found to be faulty. It has been working for 3 more years so far.

When you say "fingerprint technology", you mean biometrics, right? It has its own problems. For example, unlike keys, you leave your fingerprints everywhere.

Did you ever hear your sound speakers buzzing when you happen to receive an incoming call on your mobile lying nearby? Well that's almost the same thing (just different kind of signal). And no, lightning will just burn the phone. :D

No, electromagnetic waves of remote would not mix in the sound waves (at least directly), but sound from the microphone goes through the wire to the phone's cirtuit boards to be digitized, and at that moment, remote's signal would interfere with analogue signal that is travelling along the wire from the microphone. Hence digital signal from the remote would be treated as analogue sound signal by phone's ADC and get transmitted to the other end. EDIT: everytime I said "speaker", I meant "microphone".

It could be theoretically possible due to interference, when mechanical sound waves from phone speaker are converted to electromagnetic signal, remote's signal could interfere with phone's converted signal. Same with the door lock and the phone on the other end.

Yes, there is a part that is done in the hardware, but some of it is done in the code (in fact you can do occlusion queries in Direct3D9). Anyway it was just a guess, I think here PhysX itself is at fault.

Could it be culling that takes most of CPU time? Wouldn't be surprising given the number of objects.

I hope this card is a flop or I'll lose my hope in the Internet humanity.

What? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Pardon my grammar.

And our answer was "Yes". If you can't hear the tree fall, it doesn't there was no sound.

Simple. See? Sound is the vibrations of certain frequencies that can be potentially heard by a human. So no, your argument is not convincing. And yes, I agree with TrueNeutral, this old saying is still stupid.

Yes, that was the thing I didn't like about NWN1 (and now NWN2), but that's just an artifact of turn-based combat system, I think.

When I was 11, I watched it about 20 times. Yes, I was obsessed with dinosaurs.

How about this: nothing always exists. It is something that can be non-existent, but nothing can be defined as a concept of absence of something. Nothing always exists everywhere. An example in discrete universe: empty set is a subset of any other set, and intuitively, there are infinite number of empty sets in any subset.

STALKER :'(

What's with this all Snakes on a Plane nonsense? I see it everywhere and I don't get what the fuss is about.

Why would anyone want to run anything older than XP SP2? Anything before that is no longer supported by MS.

Damn, where have you been earlier?