Instead of warm locations like Texas and Carolina Why don't they build these datacentres near the Arctic circle, like Alaska and reduce the need for cooling?
And increase the cost of bandwidth, electricity, and man-power.
That's not a lot, although that is to merely the frontpage. Perhaps it isn't the server, but the fact that you use MediaWiki, which I think is SQL query heavy.
Not everyone has HDTV, nor does first-out Internet TV need to be high-quality. Just look at YouTube as an example. Even so, you are completely correct the bandwidth on the user-side simply isn't there -- yet. Most people have DSL, probably provided by the the phone company. Do you not think that the phone would love to put the cable companies out of business? Fiber-to-the-door is coming, slowly but surely.
Second, although there are devices and protocol that can do what is needed, none of the providers of them have the kind of backing and connections that Apple has. With an established, positive relationship with media companies, Apple could (and has) help push true Internet-delivered TV.
In other words, Internet isn't going to kill the television star anytime soon.
Probably true, but I can dream of having literally every episode of every TV show just a remote click away, and still complaining that nothing is on TV. (You heard it here first!)
If they open up the protocols for this, thus allowing other devices to be compatible and streaming software to be created, say goodbye to over-the-air, cable, and satellite TV.
Knowing Apple, that isn't going to happen. A shame.
Never, ever will happen for legal reasons. Car companies themselves stated this in the early 90s after some of the first tries at driverless cars were made.
I'm reminded of a Slashdot comment from a ways back:
The new dot-com business are like donkeys chasing a carrot on a stick. They just keep on walking, never getting any closer to the carrot, but expending a lot of energy (money). They need some company to come along and give them the carrot.
I setup a prison in The Sims once. I blocked everyones door with a desk. Gave them the cot, toilet, and a light. Had to manually move food to their desk. It was fun.
To those born in the 1990s, the @ symbol is more familar than the dial tone. Gone is pen and paper, replaced with keyboards and pixels. Friendships are made via mathematical graphs instead of face-to-face contact. Teenagers no longer crave privacy, instead opting to publish their entire life in a blog. Small circles of friends now strech around the world. Graphical paradise has replaced your own backyard.
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Instead of warm locations like Texas and Carolina Why don't they build these datacentres near the Arctic circle, like Alaska and reduce the need for cooling?
And increase the cost of bandwidth, electricity, and man-power.
That's not a lot, although that is to merely the frontpage. Perhaps it isn't the server, but the fact that you use MediaWiki, which I think is SQL query heavy.
Oh, please. Should I be impressed?
I think so: Somehow, inspite it's nothingness, it got on the frontpage of Slashdot.
Then again, it is a Sunday, and yet the server got Slashdotted.
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If only businesses would listen to this type of advice!!
If only consumers would demand that business listen to this type of advice.
And how long does it take for me to become (and stay) bilingual? Is there a net gain, or would my time be better spent elsewhere?
So don't remove the post! Reply to it saying that and close the topic.
A new Apple icon needs to be added to Slashdot, showing a man gagged by an apple.
They just need to follow Homer's logic: Expose the rabbits to radiation, thereby making them big.
And I hope no one rains on their trip.
Blow up the building.
Not that I ever watch the stuff, of course.
Which is why you have an informed opinion on it.
(How did that post get modded up funny? It's a blatant troll.)
Why yes, yes I do.
I'm saying what we need -- nay, what consumers need to demand -- are the HTTP and HTML, the Apache and Firefox for Internet TV.
Not everyone has HDTV, nor does first-out Internet TV need to be high-quality. Just look at YouTube as an example. Even so, you are completely correct the bandwidth on the user-side simply isn't there -- yet. Most people have DSL, probably provided by the the phone company. Do you not think that the phone would love to put the cable companies out of business? Fiber-to-the-door is coming, slowly but surely.
Second, although there are devices and protocol that can do what is needed, none of the providers of them have the kind of backing and connections that Apple has. With an established, positive relationship with media companies, Apple could (and has) help push true Internet-delivered TV.
In other words, Internet isn't going to kill the television star anytime soon.
Probably true, but I can dream of having literally every episode of every TV show just a remote click away, and still complaining that nothing is on TV. (You heard it here first!)
If they open up the protocols for this, thus allowing other devices to be compatible and streaming software to be created, say goodbye to over-the-air, cable, and satellite TV.
Knowing Apple, that isn't going to happen. A shame.
The driverless car is coming.
Never, ever will happen for legal reasons. Car companies themselves stated this in the early 90s after some of the first tries at driverless cars were made.
*cough* http://forums.anti-slash.org/viewtopic.php?t=1324 *cough*
Get off the couch...
And on to folding chairs in dimly lit rooms with cigar smoke hanging in the air? Doesn't seem that much better.
I'm reminded of a Slashdot comment from a ways back:
The new dot-com business are like donkeys chasing a carrot on a stick. They just keep on walking, never getting any closer to the carrot, but expending a lot of energy (money). They need some company to come along and give them the carrot.
I call this "The Paul Graham Business Plan".
I've been searching for years for some of the info on the nuclear tests done in the late 50's, as my dad was in 13 of them.
What kind of super powers does he have?
Some preliminary tests of scramjets have been done. Very preliminary. Not by these guys.
s promise2hourflights_E607/hypersonic4.gif They clearly know what they're doing.
Pish-posh! Just look at their mockup: http://www.blorge.com/images/Hypersonicspaceplane
Ask my question to a bunch of 12 year olds posing as PhD holders? How can I lose!
I setup a prison in The Sims once. I blocked everyones door with a desk. Gave them the cot, toilet, and a light. Had to manually move food to their desk. It was fun.
To those born in the 1990s, the @ symbol is more familar than the dial tone. Gone is pen and paper, replaced with keyboards and pixels. Friendships are made via mathematical graphs instead of face-to-face contact. Teenagers no longer crave privacy, instead opting to publish their entire life in a blog. Small circles of friends now strech around the world. Graphical paradise has replaced your own backyard.
Welcome to the @Generation.
Hardcore players used it to resupply their homes and get the minimal amount of sun needed to survive.