...and after working a few minutes building an IP4 compatible packet, I gave up and decided just to use words, 'cause I'm lazy that way.
The first school believes that the ideal IP packet contains two bits. For the first bit, 0 means you're dead. 1 means you're not dead, but will probably kick off sooner or later. The second bit is ignored.
The second school differs, believing that the ideal packet should mirror the complex nature of humanity, and thus contain valuable information about both the sender and the reciever. Among other things, it includes both the actual and ideal height, weight, skin type, and fovorite breakfast cereal of both the sender and the reciever. The downside of this is that the packet headers can neatly fit on a 500 terrebyte drive, presuming that no other data resides there. The first transmission is expected to finish arriving sometime in the next two hundred years.
The third school of thought is radically different than the other two, and attempts to bring the universe together in a simple unity. The packet header they suggest is approximately 25 bytes, if you feel like it. Each bit designates an option such as "I am better than you", "You are fat", or "You won't read this because you hate me". The 1s and os stand for "This statement is true" and "This statement is an utter lie", respectively. To ensure unity, the members are allowed only one key on their keyboards - the 0 key. Unfortunately, the members of this group all suddenly perished when someone accidently put a packet through a "not" switch, and angered one of the more collosal members. The angry fellow then proceded to destroy everything in his path, while screaming something about how his mother is not, as it were, overweight.
(Why yes, I HAVE been reading a mixture of Terry Prachett and Douglas Adams, with a good few Black Adder shows thrown in...) |
