* Posts by Mark in CA

6 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jun 2018

This maglev turntable costs more than an average luxury electric car

Mark in CA

Expensive? Not really. Try one of these:

5. Transrotor Artus FMD ($150,000)

4. Audio Consulting R-evolution Meteor ($180,000)

3. Transrotor Argos ($250,000)

2. Goldmund Reference II ($300,000)

1. AV Design Haus Dereneville VPM ($650,000)

Cop drone crashes into flight instructor's airplane

Mark in CA

If you're moving forwards and something hits you head-on, it's going to cause your body to shift forwards, not back on your seat.

Microsoft Windows 10 October update giving HP users BSOD

Mark in CA

New HP Keyboard Driver Update

I have had no issues with the Windows update on my HP ProBook laptop, but did notice yesterday that a new HP keyboard driver update was installed, so maybe this is the fix?

Boffins want to stop Network Time Protocol's time-travelling exploits

Mark in CA

It's totally different. Specifying multiple servers today means you are still relying on the result from only one server. What is being suggested here is always relying on the result of tens of servers, or more. This is not unlike how scientists today determine what "real" time is, by querying all the atomic clocks in their netowrk of such devices around the world, tossing out outiers and then performing a weighted average.

Time to dump dual-stack networks and get on the IPv6 train – with LW4o6

Mark in CA

Performance?

If the home router/gateway will be where all the packing/unpacking takes place, won't this put more of a load on the router? And won't that, in turn, will require routers to have more powerful (and expensive) processors with more RAM (expensive)? How will this affect over all router throughput and latency? Will it affect services like VoIP, streaming video, etc?

Europe's scheme to build exascale capability on homegrown hardware is ludicrous fantasy

Mark in CA

All well and good, except for the part about Europe being a country like the US.