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Why is it annoying? Isn't it easy to tell the IP address?

freeflight 9y ago
Only if you know the periodic table blind, but this could be a good approach to actually learn it. I'm just not that sure many people want to learn chemistry while administering the IT.
- oceanman888 9y ago
  Hummmm, in Asian we can't graduate high school without memorizing the whole damn thing.
  - isostatic 9y ago
    What a useful skill...
    - apexalpha 9y ago
      My High school forced 2 dead languages on me (Latin, Greek) for 2 years. Think I'd rather have the periodic table.
      - delecti 9y ago
        Really? In my adult life I can't remember the last time it would have been genuinely useful (not just a neat party trick) to have the periodic table memorized, but a sizable chunk of the English language has Latin or Greek roots. I definitely think that's more useful, if only to have a better sense of the language you're speaking.
      - isostatic 9y ago
        I suspect people living in Athens may be rather upset by the assertion they don't speak Greek! (Yes, I assume you meant ancient greek) High School teaches tons of crap. I spent 5 years doing French, and while I remember "J'ai joue le foot" (which was a lie), that's about it, I could pick up more French in 3 months worth of weekly evening classes. Even the French I know doesn't help - I went to a kiosk at Gare du Nord, having just got off the train from Brussels. "Je Voudrai une cafe sil-vou-plait". "Three-fifty" comes the response. Bloody French. High School languages in the UK (and other English speaking contries) would be far better giving a smörgåsbord of the basics of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, and Portugese. Being able to say "Hello, good to meet you", "Thank you", "Excuse me, where are the toilets", "Could I have the bill please", understand a few phrases (tickets please etc), and have a fighting chance at reading and ordering from a menu, etc, in most countries of the world would be very beneficial. 4 years, 2 languages per year. Perhaps more important than the language specifics are the customs, even things like composting train tickets, (Of course with translate apps, map apps, etc the menu/map problem is going away, but the customs and some language overview would go a long way - when train tickets neet composting, when tipping is required (USA), not required (most countries), and actually an insult (many far east places). Being able to recognize which toilet to go in - W or F - is helpful). Wider cultural education would be a massive benefit to Americans in general, who on the whole don't get the chance to travel that say Brits do.
bri3d 9y ago
Remembering the number of higher elements is a pain so if you do this in lieu of DNS it's not as clever as it first seems. I too had a co-worker who loved this naming scheme and I thought it was great, just not in lieu of having a name resolution scheme that's not "quick what number is strontium"
- delecti 9y ago
  It limits you to 120-odd options, but that information is a quick web search away so I'm not sure the issue you mentioned is a huge restriction. Google provides it in their quick results search for "strontium atomic number".
  - WorldMaker 9y ago
    You could always use the Systematic names [1] to fill out the rest of the byte past the 118 proper named elements, giving you a full subnet of names. (ununennium through bipentpentium) I wonder if you start to do chemistry on the names if you need to track multiple subnets? 192.168.11.17 might be sodium-chloride (NaCl). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name
andy_ppp 9y ago
Because you can run out of IPs and all machines have to have static IPs and because it breaks if you decide to subnet and because who knows the atomic number of californium and because machines can just set their own hostname and because of byod etc. etc.

Only if you know the periodic table blind, but this could be a good approach to actually learn it. I'm just not that sure many people want to learn chemistry while administering the IT.

oceanman888 9y ago
Hummmm, in Asian we can't graduate high school without memorizing the whole damn thing.
- isostatic 9y ago
  What a useful skill...
  - apexalpha 9y ago
    My High school forced 2 dead languages on me (Latin, Greek) for 2 years. Think I'd rather have the periodic table.
    - delecti 9y ago
      Really? In my adult life I can't remember the last time it would have been genuinely useful (not just a neat party trick) to have the periodic table memorized, but a sizable chunk of the English language has Latin or Greek roots. I definitely think that's more useful, if only to have a better sense of the language you're speaking.
    - isostatic 9y ago
      I suspect people living in Athens may be rather upset by the assertion they don't speak Greek! (Yes, I assume you meant ancient greek) High School teaches tons of crap. I spent 5 years doing French, and while I remember "J'ai joue le foot" (which was a lie), that's about it, I could pick up more French in 3 months worth of weekly evening classes. Even the French I know doesn't help - I went to a kiosk at Gare du Nord, having just got off the train from Brussels. "Je Voudrai une cafe sil-vou-plait". "Three-fifty" comes the response. Bloody French. High School languages in the UK (and other English speaking contries) would be far better giving a smörgåsbord of the basics of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, and Portugese. Being able to say "Hello, good to meet you", "Thank you", "Excuse me, where are the toilets", "Could I have the bill please", understand a few phrases (tickets please etc), and have a fighting chance at reading and ordering from a menu, etc, in most countries of the world would be very beneficial. 4 years, 2 languages per year. Perhaps more important than the language specifics are the customs, even things like composting train tickets, (Of course with translate apps, map apps, etc the menu/map problem is going away, but the customs and some language overview would go a long way - when train tickets neet composting, when tipping is required (USA), not required (most countries), and actually an insult (many far east places). Being able to recognize which toilet to go in - W or F - is helpful). Wider cultural education would be a massive benefit to Americans in general, who on the whole don't get the chance to travel that say Brits do.

bri3d 9y ago

Remembering the number of higher elements is a pain so if you do this in lieu of DNS it's not as clever as it first seems. I too had a co-worker who loved this naming scheme and I thought it was great, just not in lieu of having a name resolution scheme that's not "quick what number is strontium"

delecti 9y ago
It limits you to 120-odd options, but that information is a quick web search away so I'm not sure the issue you mentioned is a huge restriction. Google provides it in their quick results search for "strontium atomic number".
- WorldMaker 9y ago
  You could always use the Systematic names [1] to fill out the rest of the byte past the 118 proper named elements, giving you a full subnet of names. (ununennium through bipentpentium) I wonder if you start to do chemistry on the names if you need to track multiple subnets? 192.168.11.17 might be sodium-chloride (NaCl). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_element_name

andy_ppp 9y ago

Because you can run out of IPs and all machines have to have static IPs and because it breaks if you decide to subnet and because who knows the atomic number of californium and because machines can just set their own hostname and because of byod etc. etc.