From TFA:
"The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat's brain,"
This reminds me of the Spinnaker project, that pretended to simulate a brain (ok, a smaller one, say a fly's brain) in real time. According to their calculations, the processing power of each neuron is very small, so a simple ARM core could handle some 1000 (correct me, this is what I remember) neurons in real time. The complex point was the interconnections between neurons. Obviously, this is much more powerful, despite the 100x slowdown: A much larger brain, and not using specific hardware.
The headline is wrong. The news is not that "there is the right to have 1Mbps Internet access". Actually, the Universal Service in Spain is intended to provide the same services to all the citizens, independently of the location of their home. This means that, when it gets approbed, rural areas will receive at least 1 Mbps, no matter how far they are from the nearest service provider, and with the same cost as the largest cities. Current services covered by this "Universal service" are plain telephone access enabled for low-speed internet access, telephone guides and availability of public phones prepared for the disabled. More information can be found on Spanish in the Wikipedia.
This service has a cost, which is paid by all the citizens. To this extent, there is a "Universal Service Fund", whose incomes are paid by all telecom customers. One company (Telefonica, the former monopolist) is forced to provide this "Universal service", despite not being profitable. The monetary cost comes from the fund.
Actually, it's quite common; I studied that at the University on my Ms. It is an effect of the signal dispersion in the fiber, which is increased with the distance. Therefore, the speed (bits per second) decreases with the distance.
Every pixel in the image is actually divided into 9 "light sources". These 9 "points" are in a convex (or is it concave) line, so they target different locations in front of the TV. A micro-lenses system makes that only one point on each group is seen at a time from a given angle, and the viewed point depends on the horizontal viewing angle. With such mechanism, our two eyes receive different information (from different pixels in each group of 9) and there you get the 3D effect.
drawbacks? you need to be at a given distance (too far and both eyes get the same image), you cannot lie down on your side watching 3D TV... But you don't need any silly glasses!
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Actually... NAT is WHAT prevented IPv4 from exhausting several years ago.
This reminds me of the Spinnaker project, that pretended to simulate a brain (ok, a smaller one, say a fly's brain) in real time. According to their calculations, the processing power of each neuron is very small, so a simple ARM core could handle some 1000 (correct me, this is what I remember) neurons in real time. The complex point was the interconnections between neurons. Obviously, this is much more powerful, despite the 100x slowdown: A much larger brain, and not using specific hardware.
The headline is wrong. The news is not that "there is the right to have 1Mbps Internet access". Actually, the Universal Service in Spain is intended to provide the same services to all the citizens, independently of the location of their home. This means that, when it gets approbed, rural areas will receive at least 1 Mbps, no matter how far they are from the nearest service provider, and with the same cost as the largest cities. Current services covered by this "Universal service" are plain telephone access enabled for low-speed internet access, telephone guides and availability of public phones prepared for the disabled. More information can be found on Spanish in the Wikipedia.
This service has a cost, which is paid by all the citizens. To this extent, there is a "Universal Service Fund", whose incomes are paid by all telecom customers. One company (Telefonica, the former monopolist) is forced to provide this "Universal service", despite not being profitable. The monetary cost comes from the fund.
Actually, it's quite common; I studied that at the University on my Ms. It is an effect of the signal dispersion in the fiber, which is increased with the distance. Therefore, the speed (bits per second) decreases with the distance.
Also, note that neither 9V (voltage) nor 18 Watts (power) are energy values
drawbacks? you need to be at a given distance (too far and both eyes get the same image), you cannot lie down on your side watching 3D TV... But you don't need any silly glasses!