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Pennsylvania is much more densely populated than Maine yet Maine beats Pennsylvania. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335740,00.asp

The mid-west is really the only barren area. The rest of the US is more densely populated or close enough to Europe rather this imaginary stereotype where everyone in Europe lives beside everyone else and everyone in the US is 50+ miles away from the nearest person.

US: http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/funda/MapLinks/NAmerica/USpop1990.gif

Europe: http://www.roebuckclasses.com/maps/placemap/europe/europepop.JPG

If density matters then less dense states shouldn't be beating more densely populated states but they do.

According to these images, the US, aside from the mid-west, is pretty close to Europe with a lot of areas exceeding Europe yet no doubt falling behind in broadband penetration.

US: http://maps.unomaha.edu/Peterson/funda/MapLinks/NAmerica/USpop1990.gif

Europe: http://www.roebuckclasses.com/maps/placemap/europe/europepop.JPG

Take Sweden. The article claims they have 96% per cent broadband penetration. The density of most of Sweden, at best is 24 people per square mile. But for the sake of argument we'll take the highest possible number and assume that applies to the whole country. That gives it 129 people per square mile.

I'll compare that then to Pennsylvania, since I've lived most of my life there. Most of the state ranges from 100 to 7000 people per square mile. Over all there are definitely more people than Sweden per square mile and quite often, from my experience, broadband is a joke in PA.

In fact this link backs up my experience: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335740,00.asp

Pennsylvania apparently has 52.5% broadband penetration and apparently only 35% customer satisfaction. That's awful.

In fact, New Jersey is the only state that comes close to Sweden's stats with NJ having 80.2% broadband penetration.

Yes, the mid-west is sparse and not densely populated but using them as an excuse as to why the rest of the US has piss poor broadband standards is laughable. The New England area, with the exception of Maine, is on par if not more densely populated than most of Europe. Funnily enough, Maine is beating the much more populated Pennsylvania. Which throws the argument that density makes a difference.

People need to quit drinking the corporations' Kool-Aid and realise they're being screwed on pretty much every single new technology like broadband and mobile phones. It's no coincidence these things aren't covered by the Communications Act and people are getting bent over on them.

We here at UNOmaha are also using the WebDAV shite. And you can bet sure as hell Firefox can't use it. So if you want your netfiles, gotta use Explorer. I like having a folder I can get anywhere, but there are better ways.

Fortunately for us, we've been using web-based registration since I've been here in 2002, and it works quite well.

My school (UNO) is currently implementing 10Gbps lines into the College of IS&T. However, being a sophomore, I don't get much chance to play. We've also got a super computer, and a lot of other fun toys. All that really was the selling point. The prospect of being able to eventually play with that stuff sold me instantly.

To hell with free iPods. If I want one of those (which I do), I'll go to FreeiPods.com. For a school to entice me, I don't want gimmicks or handouts, I want hands-on experience with bleeding-edge technology that I wouldn't get to touch otherwise.

They forgot a school with near-pervasive WiFi -- the library and admin building 100% and other areas are approaching rapidly.

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Quite so - Curiously, ice fits this descriptor - and glaciers qualify as metamorphic rocks, though they have rheidities (a unit of time) that are substantially different from those of most things we consider mineral or rock.

The STEAL lab at the Nebraska University Consortium of Information Assurance has a pretty nice setup that sounds similar to what the AskSlashdot post described. One thing I noticed when walking by the lab: they have signs up indicating that if you walk in through their door with a USB keydrive or a CDR, you can plan on walking out without it. The basic idea is that no electronic media, whatsoever, is allowed in or out without a CAREFUL audit of what's going on. If you're going to play with live viruses, the setup demands nothing less, I suppose. Remember that if you don't have physical security, network security doesn't make any difference.

You can find Buddhism, Christianity, both Buddhism and Christianity, and tons more.

Last time I google'd, which was a year or two ago, many more (and, might I say, better) articles were found by Google on the first few pages.

The obvious stuff: Zion, Trinity, NeoOne, even more at Raiders News. It may be news to some at /., but "Oracle" isn't only a database, too...

Basically, the film (great as it is) has borrowed from just about everything it can find. Its great achievement is combining all these things into a single, reasonably coherent film. Let's hope the next are as good, and not just "But what if a computer-created bus had no breaks" and "What about a cruise ship?"

Sounds like these guys have never studied thermodynamics.

If by "these guys" you mean "The University of Omaha", I think you'll lose that bet. Their "Conductive Concrete for Bridge Deicing" experiement indicates that the average power generated by the conductive concrete was about 591 W/m^2, consistant with successful past efforts at electrical bridge deicing. Their estimated energy cost for this amount of power is $0.70 to $1.00 /m^2 per storm, which sounds perfectly reasonable.

Please read the links before trying to make yourself sound smarter than everyone else.

Oh man. You just keep proving how stupid you are. I was never talking about sticker price. I have always been talking about fair market price. That is what Ebay is.

Instead of arguing with you anymore I am just going to post links to Economics sites. I have neither the time nor the energy to ague with someone who can't comprehend something this simple:

Link 1

Link 2

That first one has even a neat little graph that shows you how price goes up as supply goes down.

I leave you with this, though. Is a Babe Ruth baseball card worth a lot because of super high demand or because of super low supply.