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Also, if you want some math:

A small reactor outputs 125-140 megawatts of power. So lets say 140 MWh. The average cost of a small reactor is $750,000,000. Gigaom

So, to get your 11 million MW-h, you would need 78,571 small reactors. Assuming we did want to completely redo the entire US energy grid, that brings us to $58,928,250,000,000. $59 Trillion in reactors.

Change that to full size reactors and you need $110 Trillion.

https://gigaom.com/2010/07/17/...
Keep on spinning, amigo.
Why am I not whining about Apple's walled garden? because I don't care about it. In the case of the iPhone 4, it had a design flaw. A flaw easily fixed by a bumper (which I had, and eventually preferred)
You're the fuckstick here trying to pretend like it was a non-issue or an issue that existed in other phones, conflating it simple hand-covering of the antenna.
There's a reason they gave those bumpers out for free.
What's pathetic is the whole "you're holding it wrong" or "we changed how we calculate the signal bars" as a fix. Pure hubris. Hand in your geek card for swallowing that load without blinking.

I haven't figured out if she's an ultimate fangirl or a freelance PR person working for a Musk publicist.

I'm going with ultimate fangirl. Also known as Karen Pease, the breadcrumbs suggest she fled the States to live in Iceland after her EV-related startup cratered, and is now relying on governmental largess to make ends meet. Debates with Elon about settling on Venus. They basically seem like two peas in a pod (except she's a bit rough around the edges and clearly hasn't mastered the charismatic personality that convinces people to shovel more and more billions into the latest and greatest soon-to-be-failed enterprise).

Fair point, Symbian and RIM were still strong then in some markets, but in others the iPhone was definitely king - such as this 78% share in Western Europe in late 2009, or 50% share worldwide early 2010.

The iPhone certainly had dominant mindshare back then, but I will concede that its peak marketshare perhaps didn't last long enough to overly concern EU regulators.

"the browser’s business model will be the standard affiliate-deal affair" from https://gigaom.com/2015/01/27/...

Their team is small and hence they do not need much revenue.

their accountants have determined that the cost to provision the service is likely to exceed the revenue generated from doing so

Indeed, but why? NYC is a very thickly settled area — which is normally a dream for Internet-service providers. The high population density is usually cited as the reason for better Internet-service options.

So, why is NYC an exception?

That's not a good excuse for breaking their contract

Well, they entered into it under an obvious duress — so I wouldn't blame them too much.

Contrary to the claim in this "study", articles have been coming out over the past 6 years or so claiming just the opposite.
I guess results depend on who is funding the study.Also, I'm sure there's zero bias from the AMA.either way on this topic
http://caledonianmercury.com/2...
another from 2013: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5983991...

Yet another from 2013
https://gigaom.com/2013/02/11/...

People are willing to pay if the prices is right and the convenience is there.

Are they ok whipping their credit card out for a monthly/annual subscription on every site they visit? No way, but that doesn't mean they are unwilling to pay anything.

Micropayments have been proposed for years as an alternative to advertising but it hasn't been practical to enter payment data for every web site, or to make payments less than a dollar when there are credit card fees (and minimums?).

Readability, Pocket/ReaditLater (and Instapaper?) all talked about passing a portion of their own revenues on to the content creators.

https://gigaom.com/2012/04/03/...

The Brave web browser is giving it a shot with Bitcoin, but we'll see how that goes.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...

The advertising network model is broken and has a steady stream of malvertising on reputable web sites, as well as making the web worse by crowding out content more and more in favor of advertisements.

I'm hoping something better wins, and when it does, I will be ready with my credit card.

interesting

Might just be your phone. Almost all the research shows no real difference.

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/11/...

http://www.wired.com/2015/03/f...

That's a diversion. It's the same coax going into the house, it's the same overall bandwidth on that coax. Comcast is playing with words.

That is incorrect; you don't understand how coax works. It is the same coax cable, but not the same bandwidth. Video is delivered on a separate spectrum in coax cable. Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) is used to transmit "classic" cable video and consumes spectrum. Most likely Comcast is reclaiming spectrum and using that to stream tv. Separate bandwidth, just as HAM radio and 4g cell networks consumer separate bandwidth.

They also are likely sourcing the content closer to the end user so they don't have to pay interconnect fees. It is also broadly well known that Comcast has a separate physical fiber backbone just for TV. See cbone vs ibone. Like it or not between separated spectrum and separate physical infrastructure this is most assuredly not "delivered over the internet".

Ugh, so flagrant violation of NN it's sickening. And defending it by saying 'omigosh, its OUR OWN intranet!' It's a good defense, and precisely why content providers need to be separated from internet providers, or be forced to play by NN rules. This is exactly what NN exists to prevent. Almost feels like Comcast looked at pro-NN discussion and decided to pick the most blatant violation they could find and do it.

Comcast has always pulled this shady crap. They make sure first-party services are unaffected by whatever crazy bandwidth shaping ruins third-party services in what is almost certainly a very deliberate attempt to push people towards their own first-party services. This is just business as usual for Comcast....

Let's just hope the consequences are enough to discourage the behavior, rather than be an 'acceptable price of doing it.'

IMO, there's only one acceptable set of consequences, and that is forcing Comcast to spin off their physical infrastructure into a separate company so that multiple ISPs and cable companies can freely lease those lines and compete against Comcast.

That already happened in 2014 . They did something for someone and were gagged into not saying anything about it because they got an NSL. Their warrant canary died.

An NSL is compulsory. Their government is forcing them to comply. What Apples "wants" doesn't factor in much.

The limits of an NSL is that it can only be for non-content information. Call history, browsing history, but not the content of a call. And the gag order part must be signed by the FBI director who certified that it, among other things, doesn't interfere with a counter-terrorism investigation. Which it certainly would if these nutjobs asked Mr. McJihadPants how best to go pew pew and he heard the FBI was trying to get their phone history. He'd be SO GONE.

THIS order from the FBI is being made in the public space though. And it makes me wonder why. Hey, could be they just want the full phone call transcription. (But the NSA already does all that contrary to what their leaders claim)

I've used drbd distributed block device before in redundancy/failover setups, but didn't know about this which is entirely different. Just found a site with some better info on the whole distributed ledger thing. It seems really cool.

They did get away with it, https://gigaom.com/2013/01/31/...
give me $24 Mil in revenue a year, I will gladly pay a one off $2 Mill fine, change my wording slightly e.g. stick the word "may" in it somewhere and continue trading as normal.

Yes, "enough shade and nothing will grow" is true, but unless they were going to build the solar panels above the town, I don't see the relevance. Solar panels don't vacuum up sunlight. They only process the sunlight that hits them. So unless you were planning on putting solar panels directly above your farmland, they wouldn't affect plants in any way.

Maybe they were going to put the solar farm in the woman's view shed. These farms can take 100 acres of land or more. That's a lot of scenic North Carolina mountain vista to lose, especially when there are already 2 of them in the area. Maybe the objection is turning an attractive landscape into more of this eyesore. And, of course, the town actually gets no benefit. At least when Apple builds a solar farm, they provide local jobs...

"Basic" is defined by the FCC. Some may break the law and call it "limited basic"

From the page you linked: "Cable systems generally are required to offer a 'basic tier' of programming".
I'm aware that the page you linked is no substitute for the text of the regulation But the wording presented on this page ("a 'basic tier'") implies to me a requirement that at least one tier of TV service has a channel set and price regulated by local government. Section 76.901(a) defines the "basic service tier" for purposes of the FCC regulation. I don't see how it forbids offering other tiers also branded "basic", as Comcast does, so long as one of them is the FCC-mandated "basic service tier". Or is it time to report Comcast to the FCC?

Nearly all have a sub-$20 basic. And that gets you in the door for Internet, phone and the other services.

But does it get you in the door for Internet with a higher ca^W monthly usage allowance? For example, Comcast has experimented in the past with a 5 GB/mo usage allowance, which I admit is more reminiscent of cellular or satellite Internet service than of typical cable Internet service in the United States. Is there a regulation that forbids cable operators from requiring a subscription to what the regulation calls a "cable programming services tier" (that is, something beyond basic) before the Internet subscriber can increase his monthly usage allowance?

You do realize that this story starts talking about Comcast, the same company that tried to charge Netflix for data that their customers were requesting? They also kicked out Netflix's caching servers from their datacenters before this. Comcast brought their problems on themselves by refusing to upgrade connections to accommodate the needs, and intentionally pushing more traffic onto the uplinks. I can't imagine how anyone would have sympathy for a company that intentionally causes over saturation of their uplinks when they have been offered free upgrades!

http://www.infoworld.com/artic...
https://gigaom.com/2014/10/28/...

http://consumerist.com/2014/02...
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/...
http://knowmore.washingtonpost...

Sorry for being late, but have a look at this:

https://gigaom.com/2008/10/08/...

Note that it has been going on for two years already when that article was published in 2008. Meaning that Apple was in the middle a legal wrangle about their DRM when Jobs essay was published.

You (like the moronic politician from Norway) seem to be unaware that the music industry forced Apple to use DRM. Not the other way around.

Sorry for being late, but have a look at this:

https://gigaom.com/2008/10/08/...

Note that it has been going on for two years already when that article was published in 2008. Meaning that Apple was in the middle a legal wrangle about their DRM when Jobs essay was published.

patent trolls to this day mostly impact large companies who are patent trolls themselves.

Tell that to all the mobile app developers who've been targeted. In fact, because of the way the law works, it's often more profitable to go after lots of smaller targets for quick settlements which can have them paying royalties well past the patent's expiration date than it is to go after just a few large targets who can fight back with lengthy litigation and in the process disqualify you from going after those smaller targets after the verdict is in.

Rackspace fights patent troll in the name of every mobile developer everywhere

This is a very simple situation. Comcast is a huge company leveraging its position as Internet gateway for approximately 20 million subscribers to get cash from others trying to provide services to those customers. In particular, they targeted Netflix because it competes with Comcast's cable TV and video on demand services.

Capacity was never the problem. The interfaces required to upgrade Comcast's interface with Cogent cost a few thousand dollars. Cogent offered to give Comcast those interfaces for free. Netfilx also offered Comcast free caching servers and a royalty free direct peering agreement that would have slashed congestion on the Comcast-Cogent interconnects and reduced both of their costs dramatically. Comcast wasn't interested.

What Comcast wanted was payola to allow Netflix access to Comcast's subscriber base. Comcast didn't care if that came in the form of Netflix using a CDN (Content Delivery Network), who pay Comcast for interconnects, or for direct payments from Netflix. They just wanted their pound of flesh.

Incidentally, in 2014 Netflix made about 267 million dollars in profit. Comcast made over 8 billion. I don't know what Netfilx is paying Comcast, but it can't be more than a drop in the bucket that is Comcast's approximately 69 billion dollar annual revenue. I suspect this was more about hurting Netflix than it is about protecting their bottom line.

Here are some sources backing up the facts and figures.
http://www.marketwatch.com/inv...
http://www.marketwatch.com/inv...
https://gigaom.com/2013/11/11/...
http://www.multichannel.com/ne...
http://www.practicalecommerce....

Perhaps this was true at a time when Apple's user base was rather small, but they're shipping hundreds of millions of phones and far, far more computers than they ever had before. In the U.S. they have something near a 50% market share for smart phone purchases. Calling it a cult at that point seems more than a little disingenuous.

Gigaom reaches over 6.5 million monthly unique readers and continues to be the leading independent voice that demystifies emerging technology through its news, events and research. We’re a new type of media company with a business model that leverages technology, transparency and access to information. The company’s growth has been propelled by great writers, journalistic integrity, industry depth and audience engagement.

We offer integrated advertising programs across all of our channels: Cloud, Data, Media, Mobile, Science & Energy, Social & Web, and Podcasts. With a strong mobile reach of over 2 million monthly readers, our mobile advertising on Flipboard is highly targeted. With an array of podcasts, newsletters and other custom campaigns, we have a campaign offering to fit any client’s budget and marketing goals.

I don't know who these "6.5 million monthly unique readers" are, but if the regular crowd at Slashdot has never even heard of their site, then they weren't really reaching 6.5 million people, or they were the wrong 6.5 million people. According to their careers page it looks like they had a lot of overhead and tried to run like an old fashioned news company with two offices in major cities. They certainly weren't lean-and-mean.

https://about.gigaom.com/caree...

Google purchased Motorola mobility who had a crapload of patents that MS may be violating.

https://gigaom.com/2014/01/30/...

I'm not sure that MS can go after Google and come out clean. The low hanging fruit- especially since MS bought nokia likely will not have as much defensive posturing to fall back on.

@ ZorinLynx: "Wouldn't that mean Microsoft should be going after Google, and not Kyocera? Google produces the software, after all."

It would except microsoft knows it doesn't have a legal leg to stand on and the smaller players are easier to extort than the behemoth of Mountain View, California.

@Sylak: "IIRC Google negeoated patent protections/licensing for certain things in android, anything beyond that is the responsibility of the phone manufacturers because it's their software changes"

No, google never negotiated patent 'protection' from Microsoft in relation to Android. Microsoft has refused to reveal what these patents are. but is quite happey to fund Patent Trolls to go after legitimate companies. See :Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Patent trolls under attack, but not dead yet.

https://gigaom.com/2015/02/04/...

Market share is nearly tied.

In this case Apple did it first (that's generous though given Blackberry's old position) and Android is arguably doing it better. Of course I think open is better and the man on the street will probably site Apple being better because they don't have that bias.

are you sure? apple's disappeared.
https://gigaom.com/2014/09/18/...

Their cars aren't on the market yet. They have no data on my driving.

Google Maps — on every Android phone, and on many iPhones as well. If you use it — and many people do — here is, what Google knows about where you've been.

So the average person spends most of their day walking around with a GPS recording their every movement, I have to imagine this is already having a pretty big effect on the criminal court system. Sure most people committing a premeditated crime would be smart enough to leave their phone at home (or give it to a fake alibi), but this seems to greatly simplify the standard TV question of "where were you between the times of X and Y last night?"

Their cars aren't on the market yet. They have no data on my driving.

Google Maps — on every Android phone, and on many iPhones as well. If you use it — and many people do — here is, what Google knows about where you've been.

My phone lives in a foil pouch unless I need to make a call.

Let's see you track me when the phone cannot transmit or receive,
motherfuckers.

Their cars aren't on the market yet. They have no data on my driving.

Google Maps — on every Android phone, and on many iPhones as well. If you use it — and many people do — here is, what Google knows about where you've been.

Basically the idea is you walk up to your Chromebook, and without touching anything you say "OK Google what are my appointments today?"

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Basically the idea is you walk up to your Chromebook, and without touching anything you say "OK Google what are my appointments today?"

The Chromebook will then say "About 15,700,000 results (0.39 seconds) "Ok Google" and voice search - Search Help - Google Help support.google.com â ... â How to use the app Google For example, say "Ok Google" do I need an umbrella tomorrow" to see if ... Note: You need to have Google Now turned on for some of these examples to ... Create a Google Calendar event: "Create a calendar event for dinner in San Francisco, Saturday at 7 PM." See your upcoming bills: "My bills" or "My Comcast bills 2013. Google now https://www.google.com/landing... Google Google Now brings you the information you want, when you need it. Ok Google now, what's my next appointment no longer working ... forums.androidcentral.com â Motorola Android Phones â Moto X (2013) Aug 26, 2014 - 9 posts - âZ3 authors Anyone else having trouble with "Okay Google Now, what's my next appointment?" It stopped working for me about a week ago. It was one of ... Google Now - Show me appointments for this week and ... 25 posts Oct 13, 2013 Assist - Meetings not working? - Android Forums at ... 21 posts Aug 21, 2013 More results from forums.androidcentral.com How to get the best out of Google Now - Digital Trends www.digitaltrends.com â Mobile Jul 28, 2014 - If you'd like to know how to properly set up Google Now and learn about ... If you have a Nexus 5 or you install the Google Now Launcher then you can simply say âoeOk Googleâ on your home ... When is my next appointment? [Q] Why is Google Now not telling me "w⦠| Samsung Galaxy S III ... forum.xda-developers.com/.../google-telling-whats-appointment-t18880... Sep 15, 2012 - 10 posts - âZ7 authors I have been trying to get Google Now to tell me what my next appointment is but all it ever seems to do is web search and not actually look at ... 6 Tips For Getting Started With Google Now - Gizmodo gizmodo.com/6-tips-for-getting-started-with-google-now-1634... Gizmodo Sep 20, 2014 - Here are seven simple steps you can take to turn Google Now into your personal ... to remind you that you're about to be late for an appointment. ... Voice allows you to turn your tablet into a hands-free device: with OK Google Detection, you ... Commands like "Show me all of my photos from Kalamazoo" or ... The Ultimate Guide to Using Google Now as Your Personal ... nexus5.wonderhowto.com/.../ultimate-guide-using-google-now-as-your-... Dec 6, 2013 - Google Now is more expansive and feature rich than ever before, and it's built ... Next Appointment - Info for nearing Google Calender Events. ..... off my HTC One, the first thing I do is unlock my device and say, "OK Google". Google Now tip: say "Show me my calendar" : Android - Reddit www.reddit.com/r/.../google_now_tip_say_show_me_my_calendar... reddit Nov 25, 2013 - I got a card displaying a lot of my upcoming events and it read off the date, time, ... "ok google, show me a list of everything i can tell you to do.". Google Now nearly on your computer with Google's voice ... https://gigaom.com/.../google-...... Nov 27, 2013 - In Android 4.4, you can speak the âoeOK Googleâ hotword and perform a ... I was also able to get Google to recite my next scheduled appointment, ... Why it's time for Google to fix Google Now â" Tech News ... https://gigaom.com/2014/03/......

I agree - so I looked it up and apparently they *were* doing this (via investments):

http://www.solarcity.com/newsr...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB...

But then their new CEO decided to abandon them:

http://www.bizjournals.com/san...

And then they changed their mind *again* and wanted to invest, but the PUC decided against it:

https://gigaom.com/2012/05/10/...

So, basically WTF. It's a complicated situation...

Van Gogo, Rembrandt, and their contemporaries have been dead for quite a while, and copyright was much more limited (or non-existent) then.

Here's another limitation of fair use - you can't resell anything covered by copyright that you've imported from elsewhere..

here you go

The court in this case held that it was against the law to strip the individual pictures from a book and, in effect, create derivative works.

I have no emotions about this. I don't listen to an iPod nor buy things from the iTunes store.

You need to get it through your head that monopolies are not illegal by themselves. The abuse of a monopoly is illegal. If Apple raised prices because they overwhelmed the competitors, that would be a case for abuse but they kept prices at $0.99 well after reaching a 99% market position. The courts already confirmed that over a year ago.

If someone wants to sue Apple because they made a nice ecosystem integrating a piece of hardware with a thick client to manage it, good luck to them. Fact is there were and still are lots of alternatives to music purchasing and Apple doesn't care about the competitors as long as they're not hacking the Apple products to insert them. That's why the rest of what was said is relevant.

Steve Jobs' statements don't help the arguments on things like ebook pricing because monopoly laws are designed to protect consumers. Amazon has a near monopoly on ebooks and readers and they're offering ebooks below $10, a level at which publishers stop making money. Jobs' proposal to sell at more like $14 looks bad for consumers, but Jobs' thought publishers needed protection from Amazon. Before you know it, Amazon is squeezing publishers by locking them out until they succumb to $0 profit levels. Apple still believes they're right. Amazon is using their market force to control or destroy suppliers.

The rest of your statements are sophomoric. You're not old enough to remember the bad old days of Microsoft.

Correlation does not prove causation, but interesting paper none-the-less reading the summary: "Copyright and Creativity -- Evidence from Italian Operas"
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pa...

But even if it was true, should most of humanity be denied access to most of human knowledge via the internet that could otherwise be available right now (like via Google Books) so we might get a few more operas and other such thing?

Beside, current research (even by the US Federal Reserve) shows reward is not motivator for creative works (or sometimes even has a negative correlation of causing artists to just rehash more of the same old thing). Lot of studies are cited in these works by Alfie Kohn and Dan Pink to support my point:
"Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes"
http://www.alfiekohn.org/books...
"RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Also: "Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator: Creativity and intrinsic interest diminish if task is done for gain"
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...

A better answer to the issue of people having enough time to do quality work (including learning to do it) is to have a "basic income" for everyone (so, for example, monthly Social Security payments in the USA from birth, not just for those 65 and older).
http://www.basicincome.org/bie...

There are plenty of reasons copyrights stifle creativity these days, because artists can't easily remix.
https://gigaom.com/2011/12/12/...

Most, as in 99%+ (my guess), of artistic people are only held back by copyright, because very, very few people can make a living at licensing creative works as authors or composers or whatever, but they instead generally have to pay for access to contemporary novels and music and such. Some of that is discussed here:
http://www.thepublicdomain.org...

Just for reference, here's an interesting bit of news from a few years ago that never seemed to get much notice, but which I think may have something to do with FIOS seemingly grinding to a halt: https://gigaom.com/2011/12/02/...

Basically, it seems to basically boil down to a secret non-compete agreement between the established wireless and wired internet providers to not invade each others markets with new competition.

https://gigaom.com/2006/07/22/...

Microsoft Partners, You Been Zunked

More on that some other day, but the real and perhaps the only story in the news is that Microsoftâ(TM)s partners â" from device makers to music services â" just got double crossed by the company they choose to believe in. I like to call it Zun-ked (a tiny take off on Punked.)

https://gigaom.com/2013/09/03/what-microsoft-got-right-with-its-smartwatch-nearly-a-decade-ago-more-than-you-think/
If a "MeToo" exists, better choices would indisputably include both Samsung, and Apple in this case. Not to mention that Windows CE based handhelds and later Windows Mobile phones (with apps) way before there was an iPhone, and MS also supported tablets with their full OS _many_ years before the iPad was even a rumor. Apple (and later Samsung) simply got the polish and the marketing right, and made the devices "cool" (by riding the coattails of their own iPod's success in Apple's case). Microsoft is by no means the most innovative company out there, and they've made many missteps over the years (and "missed it by _that_ much too may times to count) but at least give credit where credit is due.

Coming from Verizon, Netflix uses Cogent, not AWS. This is acknowledged by all three parties.

Like this, or this, or this.
besides, if your going to lie like an idiot. You might as well just run for office.
IMHO, if you work for the government, you're assumed to be a scumbag until proven otherwise.

You're probably not too far off with this:
https://gigaom.com/2014/09/18/...

Is it a coincidence that the warrant canary vanishes right when Apple releases an update that prevents regular data requests?

You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Every recording method and device is suspect, not just drones. 1984 has been privatized and the price has come down to the level that a typical home owner can afford it. And, not everyone that can afford it is a peeping-tom.

Canada seems to be ahead of the curve compared to the U.S..

drone-based-businesses-soar-in-canada-as-faa-grounds-us-entrepreneurs:
https://gigaom.com/2014/09/12/...

One word; bandwidth. Do you have any idea the amount of data there is in a road scan?

One word:WiFi, or Google WiFi and Background incremental data uploads and downloads with Automated analysis.

Well with radio transmission, this becomes something you really have to think about.

[...]

So the more grabby people get with that bandwidth, the less there is to go around. If someone is using as much as they can because they have their phone hooked to their computer doing torrents, that slows everyone else down, even if you are are just using it in small spurts to check your e-mail.

Unfortunately, that's not how this works in real life.

My so-called 4G "unlimited" plan from T-Mobile gives me 2.5 gigs per month of data (initially it was a 5 gigs cap), and then after that, it's supposed to give me 3G speed. But it doesn't, after my initial "unlimited" cap is reached, only Facebook works anymore, my email doesn't, google maps doesn't, and my web browser doesn't. And the 3G speed it gives Facebook is actually pretty good, it's good enough to download and upload many pictures, but that 3G speed actually works for nothing else.

Just take a look at this article which is not really very clear, I'll grant you that, but this will have to do because I couldn't find another corroborating source no matter how much I googled for it.

Facebook [...] is placing its own servers inside points of presence owned by ISPs to speed to delivery of its content to users in places around the world.

Unfortunately, the Facebook executive doesn't come right out and say it, because otherwise he would have said that Facebook is placing its own servers inside points of presence owned by ISPs, including the premises of cell phone network providers (those last words are my words, not his).

And of course, placing servers inside points of presence owned by cell phone networks should have very little to do with radio bandwidth. At best, it should only improve the latency and the speed a little. So I would argue that it's the money given to the cell phone networks that encourages the cell phone networks to assign higher priority to Facebook traffic after that initial cap is reached, and to slow down traffic to a standstill for any other kind of traffic at the same time that same cap is reached (despite what T-Mobile is claiming in its advertisements and in its plans).

"I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

This is partly why we don't see keyboard add-ons: http://gigaom.com/2014/03/31/r...

Yeah, Nest isn't the company you can trust when it comes to security. Their products have been known to have some serious flaws, showing they either don't prioritize that, or they don't know how to handle it. Pretty matters more to Nest than functional.

My guess would be that the real perk is bandwidth and latency. Unless Intel really phones it in on integration, the FPGA should have about the fastest, lowest-latency, link to the CPU, possibly even some of the cache, especially if they throw in a big chunk of eDRAM, as they have for 'Iris Pro' parts, that money can buy.

As usual, the slashdot post has the absolute worst story link. compare http://www.enterprisetech.com/... which gives you links to where it gets its info, namely https://communities.intel.com/... and http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/i... ... the latter is the interesting link because it tells us that the FPGA will have access to main memory. I personally would presume that means it's tied into the memory controller somehow.

Less of a "Hey, let's do this instead of GPU compute!" and more of a "It sucks that our weirdo application-specific operation is probably never going to be one of Intel or AMD's extensions to x86; but this is the closest we can get to having it added" thing.

What I began fantasizing about immediately upon reading the article was some sort of optimizer that would semi-automatically build functional units to perform whatever function the CPU was grinding on at the moment, with some sort of recognition engine and periodic updates garnered from participating customers to help special-yet-common cases. As well, seeing how customers actually use FPGA with their products will help Intel decide what functionality to add to their next (or next+1, etc) processor.

There are already options to add an FPGA to your Xeon system, with its own blob of RAM. Since they talk about this being fundamentally different, I'm not sure what makes sense except the idea of it being connected at the memory controller. Hopefully there will be a talk with some nice block diagrams released soon.