(I used to live in Sandy, my parents live there, and several of my friends live there. None of my friends know where this 33.5Mbps number came from either.)
It is a bit bizarre that so many cities rejected joining up to have the most advanced residential fiber network in the nation built in them. (Granted, a lot of them dropped out due to telecom pressure, but still.)
Ah, then the problem is obvious. Diagnosing H1N1 as such is a pain and expensive. Most middle class Americans to bother with an official diagnosis when they get the flu, why would a poor Mexican? When someone dies, cause is usually determined, especially when it involves a new disease.
Comparing deaths to confirmed cases is a terrible and inaccurate way to describe mortality rates, especially in a third world area.
Indeed. The only think you would need to change is increase the power of the GPU (or overclock it) to render more pixels. Do that and slap an HDMI port on, and I'd buy one.
The audio chip used in the Wii already supports digital audio out, it just isn't enabled and there is no port. So literally the only thing you'd need to change is increase the GPU power.
Where did the one in six number come from? Is there a report somewhere that you could point to? That's worse than the 1918 flu epidemic, which is the high bar for everything flu.
I think you mean component. 480p component video is significantly better than NTSC over composite. Of course, it still looks like crap compared to 1080p.
Wow, that's the first relevant/important/interesting comment I've read. Do you know why the vaccines weren't readily available to those in need like they usually are?
But you're not providing enough information for it to be relevant. If the normal flue kills 0.00001% of younger healthy people, and this new flu doubles the chance of a younger healthy person to die, it's still doesn't matter because it's not significant.
Show me some numbers, then start making claims. As of yet all I've heard is scare mongering.
Okay, first off there is no need to be such a schmuck. I'm sorry your mother figure never managed to teach you manners, but that's no reason to take out your shortcomings on random strangers.
Second, I worked retail years back and never saw someone buy a Kodak product. Of everyone I know, none of them own a Kodak product. I actually purchased a Kodak camera, but only because I got a great deal when they were dumping the stock. It ended up being a crappy camera.
Third, if you look at the quote we were specifically talking about consumer products. All of the "nice stuff" you linked to is industrial level. The consumer stuff is pretty yawn worthy.
That is poor logic. It is possible for any virus to mutate and become extremely dangerous. It is also possible for the mutation to cause existing vaccines to not work. The 1918 had a mortality rate of about 10%, and it was obvious to everyone that the current version wasn't anywhere near as dangerous. So spending a ton of money on vaccines for a single virus that isn't that dangerous, and might not even work if it became dangerous, when many other viruses have the same risks is poor judgment at best.
Now, if a highly virulent strain of human infectious airborne Ebola begins spreading through the US, then I'd be worried.
H1N1 hit hardest (i.e. killed people) in a different demographic than the seasonal flu; young people in generally good health.
I keep hearing this from people, but everything I've read about actual numbers contradicts this. Young people in generally good health might be a little more at risk, but people with preexisting medical conditions are the ones that need to worry (which is normal).
If you have a reliable citation otherwise, I'd love to see it.
I've picked up a 5 port gigabit switch for $25, which certainly doesn't act like a hub. I just now quickly verified that it will push 890Mbps between two desktop onboard NICs. I've had the switch for over a year and it's never locked up on me. Cheap switches are here.
The "same features"? You mean like ASICs that forward the data with low latency once the route is established? Yep, Linux is going to somehow magically add those to your computer, and that's one of the reasons people pay the extra money for Cisco over some old P3 tower PC and a CD-ROM with a penguin on it. Another is that they fit nicely in a rack.
A lot of router equipment is essentially an x86 PC. Add on cards are often just PCI or PCIe cards. You'd be surprised how commodity a lot of that equipment is. At least, for a big part of the mid range stuff.
Granted it's all specially chosen hardware and custom firmwared, plus Cisco IOS is a heavily developed and mature OS specifically written for routing, so you're not going to see anywhere near the same performance with some random Linux whitebox system.
I remember, before digital cameras caught on, seeing a film camera that would show you a digital preview of the picture you just took. You couldn't do anything with it other than see that you'd framed things right. I don't know how it worked, but I would guess there was some sort of crappy CCD that took an extremely low res picture at the same time you pressed the button for the film.
I've always wondered if a black background uses less energy on an LCD monitor than white.
If anything it would use a tiny bit more because the LCD default state is clear, with energy being required to turn it black. (This is why a digital watch shows no numbers if the battery is dead.) But the difference in power would be extremely minuscule.
Exchange supports IMAP and POP, plus there are Linux clients that can interact with it. And the web interface for Exchange 2010 is excellent, probably better than using Outlook as you don't have to load such a huge program. There are reasons to complain about Exchange, but being a *nix/Mac user is not one of them.
You are assuming an omnidirectional transmitter, while a directional transmitter wouldn't necessarily suffer nearly as bad. The simplest solution would be to use a base station with dozens of relatively narrow beam transmitters that pulsed regularly and tried to detect a load. If a load were detected, then continue to transmit until the load is gone. That would allow you to transmit power just to focused locations.
Granted, filling the area with that amount and kind of RF is a bad idea IMHO. I can also imagine all sorts of issues with unshielded electronics and cabling.
So, certainly possible, but not necessarily practical.
I use Gmail too, but I feel I should mention that their IMAP implementation is a bit broken. I've done some email interface programming, and Gmail will generate the whole message on the fly for IMAP using the stored headers, message, and attachments. Generally this is a good idea because they can store binary attachments in much less space. In practice though, sometimes the attachments aren't combined correctly returned data is broken. (IE, the mime-type header will say the attachment is base64 and 5000 bytes, but there is only 3 bytes of plain text.) Note that the email accessed through the web interface is fine. I never tested this with POP3, so I can't comment on that.
I was doing data verification with about 1000 emails, and only saw the issue a couple of times, so it isn't easy to notice. This was also a year ago, so it's possible everything has been fixed.
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(I used to live in Sandy, my parents live there, and several of my friends live there. None of my friends know where this 33.5Mbps number came from either.)
The answer appears to be here:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1513498&cid=30795322
So you know if Sandy rejected Utopia because the politically active portion are luddites, or because they were bowing to telecom pressure?
It is a bit bizarre that so many cities rejected joining up to have the most advanced residential fiber network in the nation built in them. (Granted, a lot of them dropped out due to telecom pressure, but still.)
Also rubber - I cut a lot of rubber with it.
I feel like there's a great joke in here that I can't quite put my finger on.
Ah, then the problem is obvious. Diagnosing H1N1 as such is a pain and expensive. Most middle class Americans to bother with an official diagnosis when they get the flu, why would a poor Mexican? When someone dies, cause is usually determined, especially when it involves a new disease.
Comparing deaths to confirmed cases is a terrible and inaccurate way to describe mortality rates, especially in a third world area.
Indeed. The only think you would need to change is increase the power of the GPU (or overclock it) to render more pixels. Do that and slap an HDMI port on, and I'd buy one.
The audio chip used in the Wii already supports digital audio out, it just isn't enabled and there is no port. So literally the only thing you'd need to change is increase the GPU power.
Thank you, that was very informative.
Where did the one in six number come from? Is there a report somewhere that you could point to? That's worse than the 1918 flu epidemic, which is the high bar for everything flu.
I haven't seen the 7% number before (which is really high). Where did you get it from?
I think you mean component. 480p component video is significantly better than NTSC over composite. Of course, it still looks like crap compared to 1080p.
Wow, that's the first relevant/important/interesting comment I've read. Do you know why the vaccines weren't readily available to those in need like they usually are?
But you're not providing enough information for it to be relevant. If the normal flue kills 0.00001% of younger healthy people, and this new flu doubles the chance of a younger healthy person to die, it's still doesn't matter because it's not significant.
Show me some numbers, then start making claims. As of yet all I've heard is scare mongering.
I don't deny that they exist, but your sample group was insufficient to determine if all cheap switches are really switches.
I never made that assertion. I was merely offering a single data point to disprove your assertion.
If you can get 5 ports for $20, it's a hub.
My data point showed that this statement is not true in all cases.
I could make a chart for you if you like. :)
Okay, first off there is no need to be such a schmuck. I'm sorry your mother figure never managed to teach you manners, but that's no reason to take out your shortcomings on random strangers.
Second, I worked retail years back and never saw someone buy a Kodak product. Of everyone I know, none of them own a Kodak product. I actually purchased a Kodak camera, but only because I got a great deal when they were dumping the stock. It ended up being a crappy camera.
Third, if you look at the quote we were specifically talking about consumer products. All of the "nice stuff" you linked to is industrial level. The consumer stuff is pretty yawn worthy.
That is poor logic. It is possible for any virus to mutate and become extremely dangerous. It is also possible for the mutation to cause existing vaccines to not work. The 1918 had a mortality rate of about 10%, and it was obvious to everyone that the current version wasn't anywhere near as dangerous. So spending a ton of money on vaccines for a single virus that isn't that dangerous, and might not even work if it became dangerous, when many other viruses have the same risks is poor judgment at best.
Now, if a highly virulent strain of human infectious airborne Ebola begins spreading through the US, then I'd be worried.
H1N1 hit hardest (i.e. killed people) in a different demographic than the seasonal flu; young people in generally good health.
I keep hearing this from people, but everything I've read about actual numbers contradicts this. Young people in generally good health might be a little more at risk, but people with preexisting medical conditions are the ones that need to worry (which is normal).
If you have a reliable citation otherwise, I'd love to see it.
I've picked up a 5 port gigabit switch for $25, which certainly doesn't act like a hub. I just now quickly verified that it will push 890Mbps between two desktop onboard NICs. I've had the switch for over a year and it's never locked up on me. Cheap switches are here.
The "same features"? You mean like ASICs that forward the data with low latency once the route is established? Yep, Linux is going to somehow magically add those to your computer, and that's one of the reasons people pay the extra money for Cisco over some old P3 tower PC and a CD-ROM with a penguin on it. Another is that they fit nicely in a rack.
A lot of router equipment is essentially an x86 PC. Add on cards are often just PCI or PCIe cards. You'd be surprised how commodity a lot of that equipment is. At least, for a big part of the mid range stuff.
Granted it's all specially chosen hardware and custom firmwared, plus Cisco IOS is a heavily developed and mature OS specifically written for routing, so you're not going to see anywhere near the same performance with some random Linux whitebox system.
Kodak makes:
Digital Cameras (imagine that!)
Memory cards of all types
Printers
Video Cameras
Digital Picture Frames
I'm pretty sure Kodak just rebrands crappy products from China. Does anyone actually buy Kodak digital/computer equipment?
Kodak used to be great, but they haven't done much in a long time.
I remember, before digital cameras caught on, seeing a film camera that would show you a digital preview of the picture you just took. You couldn't do anything with it other than see that you'd framed things right. I don't know how it worked, but I would guess there was some sort of crappy CCD that took an extremely low res picture at the same time you pressed the button for the film.
I've always wondered if a black background uses less energy on an LCD monitor than white.
If anything it would use a tiny bit more because the LCD default state is clear, with energy being required to turn it black. (This is why a digital watch shows no numbers if the battery is dead.) But the difference in power would be extremely minuscule.
Exchange supports IMAP and POP, plus there are Linux clients that can interact with it. And the web interface for Exchange 2010 is excellent, probably better than using Outlook as you don't have to load such a huge program. There are reasons to complain about Exchange, but being a *nix/Mac user is not one of them.
You could compress the communications link pretty easily. Most VPN solutions do this by default.
You are assuming an omnidirectional transmitter, while a directional transmitter wouldn't necessarily suffer nearly as bad. The simplest solution would be to use a base station with dozens of relatively narrow beam transmitters that pulsed regularly and tried to detect a load. If a load were detected, then continue to transmit until the load is gone. That would allow you to transmit power just to focused locations.
Granted, filling the area with that amount and kind of RF is a bad idea IMHO. I can also imagine all sorts of issues with unshielded electronics and cabling.
So, certainly possible, but not necessarily practical.
I use Gmail too, but I feel I should mention that their IMAP implementation is a bit broken. I've done some email interface programming, and Gmail will generate the whole message on the fly for IMAP using the stored headers, message, and attachments. Generally this is a good idea because they can store binary attachments in much less space. In practice though, sometimes the attachments aren't combined correctly returned data is broken. (IE, the mime-type header will say the attachment is base64 and 5000 bytes, but there is only 3 bytes of plain text.) Note that the email accessed through the web interface is fine. I never tested this with POP3, so I can't comment on that.
I was doing data verification with about 1000 emails, and only saw the issue a couple of times, so it isn't easy to notice. This was also a year ago, so it's possible everything has been fixed.