I'd say that a percentage of the price is a reduction in costs no matter how cheap electricity is. Particularly when you can save overtime. Moreover, if you have an efficiently enough plant, you can even generate your own electricity further reducing the costs of manufacturing.
Hey, half the price is half the price no matter the original cost.
I had a lot of trouble with support to relaying using statefull DHCP servers which were required by the company I worked for. If all the important manufacturers are supporting this, then it shouldn't be a problem. Unluckily, I know at least that Juniper wasn't supporting this not too long ago, and I'm not sure Cisco. So it may not be a pain for infrastructure (ISP) or small companies that don't mind handling IPs using the stateless algorithm. But for some reason, some companies don't want to use that.
The article has a link to the application, where states that they collaborated. From the code page:
Acknowledgements
This work is part of a project performed in the joined Princeton-UIC Computational Population Biology Course in Spring 2010 (http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/~tanya/teaching/KenyaCourse.html), with co-instructors Tanya Berger-Wolf (University of Illinois at Chicago), Daniel Rubenstein and Iain Couzin (Princeton University), who were instrumental in several parts of this research. We thank he Kenya Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (research permit MOST 13/001/29C 80Vol.11 to D.I. Rubenstein), the staff at Mpala Resarch Centre, Kenya and fellow graduate students at EEB-Princeton University and CS at University of Illinois at Chicago. Funding was provided by Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Princeton University, generous contribution by Bill Unger (for the UIC students in the course), UIC College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science at UIC, UIC Graduate Research Award (Lahiri), NSF III-CXT 0705311 (Rubenstein) and IIS-CTX-0705822 and NSF IIS-CAREER-0747369 (Berger-Wolf).
It's really hard to prove they stifled innovation. But these companies have been slowly moving from goods to services. Their labs don't seem to be producing as much IP in the past years, and from what I see... they haven't innovated much in "services" too. Particularly, customer service.
The thing is that as much as they want to defend these companies, their production of goods (like those of Bell Labs, Telcordia, Motorola) has been decaying because many CEOs/managers have found that services bring more profit (charge for applications, text messages, air time, etc). They're not tangible as goods so they can charge as they please. Particularly, if there is no other carrier with the infrastructure to compete against them.
"is" not "i'd" (darn auto correct).
Anyways, I hope the globalization doesn't come back at the US and sink the current incomes further more. And I also hope big executives become more conscious about their mistakes (although it all goes down to investors and people wanting their return right away).
Another interesting thing is that GE as a company involved in several government projects and development of military technologies has various restrictions and hires mainly US citizens, at least in the US.
I think the problem I'd that in the US everyone thinks they have to be paid big bucks for everything they do. I used to do IT for less than 1k per month.
Now, with globalization you thought you'll be taking over the world, when the world was taking over your inflated incomes. Everyone else was pushing to make technology more affordable in their countries (for their salaries), and the US expected the balance not to be broken.
Don't take me wrong, but your immediate need for money and profits to maintain the incomes of some, required of some trade offs
I think the key sentence in the summary is "I don't know what a TV is anymore". The line between a TV and a computer has become so thin, that I wouldn't be surprised if they come up with a DRM system/License that TV makers have to have in order to ensure the device is an "actual TV", just like HDCP compliance.
But as long as they get all the money for broadcasting poorly produced shows (realities, which lack actors and writers) and get lots of profit, they will litigate as much as they can, because all that money has to get into the pocket of some executive.
You can always type something, and then translate it sequentially into 5 different languages using an on-line translator. After that either the grammar is good or the message is completely scrambled. In any case, no tracks of your writing style.
In addition to it, these developing countries try to protect their local market and charge additional taxes for imports at their customs.
This list shows United States nearly at the high end of the minimum wages list, consequently its citizens have higher acquisition capacity than any other in developing countries, yet prices come not only the same but sometimes higher to those countries. A simple wii game for example (although not first need) comes at US$100 (or higher) in certain countries where minimum wages are almost a third of the US minimum wages due to customs, taxes, etc. Yes, normally people will find better to pay higher for their Internet speed and just try to download as much as they can, or go around to your favorite corner vendor to get the burned copy on CD/DVD for 1/5th of the original price.
All and all, yes. Slashdot news about Apple products have become more and more like when you add "in bed" to Chinese cookies. I guess "iPad" is shorter than "in bed" and perhaps editors think is closer to reality for us, the slashdot readers, have something with an iPad rather than in bed or out of the basement.
Next: add "out of the basement" to your chinese cookies. App soon coming free with your slashdot subscription.
Actually, yes! In Delaware at least (I bet many other states) the DMV cancels their road tests on the first indication that it may rain. So the actual test occurs in quite controlled environments. Yet, you under normal conditions have to drive on rain, snow, etc. So what's the purpose of this test besides letting the state know that you know the theoretical rules and that you are capable of parallel parking in absolutely good weather conditions?
I had the chance of looking at someone's pc the other day, only to find that they are now shipping with webservers and redirect your HOSTS files to your own computer as alias for banks. So your "bank" connection is speedy and never fails, once they gather the data, I guess they'll report it somewhere else. To remove this, I had to go around looking for where the webserver was, among other temporary, hunting files was the most annoying part of it
The problem is not just latency. It's latency AND packet losses, which can dramatically reduce the available capacity for TCP flows. Particularly, if the router is not well designed and there's no algorithm in place to counteract for a suboptimal design.
A poorly designed router can sabotage the performance TCP, causing overall slowness to your connections. Particularly, those 10Mbps you're paying for and want them to properly work.
Yes, perhaps you have read already Jain's "Myths About Congestion Management in High-Speed Networks". A paper from the early 90s saying how mainly increased transfer speeds and cheap memory would not ease the need of better congestion control mechanism. The problem here is which one is best, how to pick it and mainly, that there's some need that routers also play a role in the problem
Particularly, with carriers throwing bandwidth at the core, this should be an interesting project for DD-WRT, since gateway routers are those getting the most impact of all. With the increase of access capacities, the next hop will be also impacted and so on.
Those using pings to see the latency, don't seem to take into account also that when a long TCP flow gets impacted by a packet loss, throttles down, so the latency AND losses impact also the available capacity to TCP clients.
Now, many Active Queue Management (AQM) mechanisms, such as Random Early Detection (RED), have been proposed. And most of them work well with TCP, but Linux recently moved to CUBIC, is there enough information about the impact of those over CUBIC?
And you think the internet access and mobile phones are the problem? Try electricity. Last I checked regular books didn't need batteries, then again e-readers are cool and all, but why make a poor village expend on electricity when they have bigger problems, such as perhaps housing and clean water?
Power outages occur, no matter how hard you try to get over them. A UPS fails, battery fails, something can happen.
The worse of a power outage, it's not knowing what hanged and collapsed the whole computing room to cleanly come up to service again.
I my self have applied patches that don't break running stuff, but some stuff won't boot right.
As someone else said, it's not about one system it's a whole computing room restore what can take just one hour or 12 depending on the system that you didn't know just hanged and was extremely important for the other systems to come up clean.
Amazingly, it's interesting how publishers need to pay amazon, yet music and movies get money being in distribution content such as Netflix or Hulu. Would there be a flip of things soon where streaming becomes so large that movie studios would be also charged? Nah, I don't think so because ISPs are merging with TV networks, not publishers, right?
Slashdot Mirror
I'd say that a percentage of the price is a reduction in costs no matter how cheap electricity is. Particularly when you can save overtime. Moreover, if you have an efficiently enough plant, you can even generate your own electricity further reducing the costs of manufacturing.
Hey, half the price is half the price no matter the original cost.
I had a lot of trouble with support to relaying using statefull DHCP servers which were required by the company I worked for. If all the important manufacturers are supporting this, then it shouldn't be a problem. Unluckily, I know at least that Juniper wasn't supporting this not too long ago, and I'm not sure Cisco. So it may not be a pain for infrastructure (ISP) or small companies that don't mind handling IPs using the stateless algorithm. But for some reason, some companies don't want to use that.
Acknowledgements
This work is part of a project performed in the joined Princeton-UIC Computational Population Biology Course in Spring 2010 (http://compbio.cs.uic.edu/~tanya/teaching/KenyaCourse.html), with co-instructors Tanya Berger-Wolf (University of Illinois at Chicago), Daniel Rubenstein and Iain Couzin (Princeton University), who were instrumental in several parts of this research. We thank he Kenya Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (research permit MOST 13/001/29C 80Vol.11 to D.I. Rubenstein), the staff at Mpala Resarch Centre, Kenya and fellow graduate students at EEB-Princeton University and CS at University of Illinois at Chicago. Funding was provided by Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Princeton University, generous contribution by Bill Unger (for the UIC students in the course), UIC College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science at UIC, UIC Graduate Research Award (Lahiri), NSF III-CXT 0705311 (Rubenstein) and IIS-CTX-0705822 and NSF IIS-CAREER-0747369 (Berger-Wolf).
the whole thing is going to hell
Except politicians... they are safe because of course, they're not even wanted there.
AT&T, Comcast... hello?
It's really hard to prove they stifled innovation. But these companies have been slowly moving from goods to services. Their labs don't seem to be producing as much IP in the past years, and from what I see... they haven't innovated much in "services" too. Particularly, customer service.
The thing is that as much as they want to defend these companies, their production of goods (like those of Bell Labs, Telcordia, Motorola) has been decaying because many CEOs/managers have found that services bring more profit (charge for applications, text messages, air time, etc). They're not tangible as goods so they can charge as they please. Particularly, if there is no other carrier with the infrastructure to compete against them.
"is" not "i'd" (darn auto correct). Anyways, I hope the globalization doesn't come back at the US and sink the current incomes further more. And I also hope big executives become more conscious about their mistakes (although it all goes down to investors and people wanting their return right away). Another interesting thing is that GE as a company involved in several government projects and development of military technologies has various restrictions and hires mainly US citizens, at least in the US.
Which is particularly easy when someone is using IP addresses in the 300 block.
I think the problem I'd that in the US everyone thinks they have to be paid big bucks for everything they do. I used to do IT for less than 1k per month. Now, with globalization you thought you'll be taking over the world, when the world was taking over your inflated incomes. Everyone else was pushing to make technology more affordable in their countries (for their salaries), and the US expected the balance not to be broken. Don't take me wrong, but your immediate need for money and profits to maintain the incomes of some, required of some trade offs
I think the key sentence in the summary is "I don't know what a TV is anymore". The line between a TV and a computer has become so thin, that I wouldn't be surprised if they come up with a DRM system/License that TV makers have to have in order to ensure the device is an "actual TV", just like HDCP compliance. But as long as they get all the money for broadcasting poorly produced shows (realities, which lack actors and writers) and get lots of profit, they will litigate as much as they can, because all that money has to get into the pocket of some executive.
Well, and don't even get me started with the Chinese
Still, more than 417,000,000 people (as of 1999) will find it a little funny to hear about their smartfphone having WebOs.
I think I didn't get it before, but WebOS is a hit/miss in Spanish speaking countries as it's an homonym with "Huevos", which is slang for "balls".
As in "Tienes WebOS?". Ah, yes... I don't see a good future launching WebOS either.
and why not hex using two octaves?
You can always type something, and then translate it sequentially into 5 different languages using an on-line translator. After that either the grammar is good or the message is completely scrambled. In any case, no tracks of your writing style.
In addition to it, these developing countries try to protect their local market and charge additional taxes for imports at their customs.
This list shows United States nearly at the high end of the minimum wages list, consequently its citizens have higher acquisition capacity than any other in developing countries, yet prices come not only the same but sometimes higher to those countries. A simple wii game for example (although not first need) comes at US$100 (or higher) in certain countries where minimum wages are almost a third of the US minimum wages due to customs, taxes, etc. Yes, normally people will find better to pay higher for their Internet speed and just try to download as much as they can, or go around to your favorite corner vendor to get the burned copy on CD/DVD for 1/5th of the original price.
All and all, yes. Slashdot news about Apple products have become more and more like when you add "in bed" to Chinese cookies. I guess "iPad" is shorter than "in bed" and perhaps editors think is closer to reality for us, the slashdot readers, have something with an iPad rather than in bed or out of the basement.
Next: add "out of the basement" to your chinese cookies. App soon coming free with your slashdot subscription.
Actually, yes! In Delaware at least (I bet many other states) the DMV cancels their road tests on the first indication that it may rain. So the actual test occurs in quite controlled environments. Yet, you under normal conditions have to drive on rain, snow, etc. So what's the purpose of this test besides letting the state know that you know the theoretical rules and that you are capable of parallel parking in absolutely good weather conditions?
I had the chance of looking at someone's pc the other day, only to find that they are now shipping with webservers and redirect your HOSTS files to your own computer as alias for banks. So your "bank" connection is speedy and never fails, once they gather the data, I guess they'll report it somewhere else. To remove this, I had to go around looking for where the webserver was, among other temporary, hunting files was the most annoying part of it
I have a game from their market called "slice-it". From time to time it tries to get root permissions for who knows what reason.
The problem is not just latency. It's latency AND packet losses, which can dramatically reduce the available capacity for TCP flows. Particularly, if the router is not well designed and there's no algorithm in place to counteract for a suboptimal design.
A poorly designed router can sabotage the performance TCP, causing overall slowness to your connections. Particularly, those 10Mbps you're paying for and want them to properly work.
Yes, perhaps you have read already Jain's "Myths About Congestion Management in High-Speed Networks". A paper from the early 90s saying how mainly increased transfer speeds and cheap memory would not ease the need of better congestion control mechanism. The problem here is which one is best, how to pick it and mainly, that there's some need that routers also play a role in the problem
Particularly, with carriers throwing bandwidth at the core, this should be an interesting project for DD-WRT, since gateway routers are those getting the most impact of all. With the increase of access capacities, the next hop will be also impacted and so on.
Those using pings to see the latency, don't seem to take into account also that when a long TCP flow gets impacted by a packet loss, throttles down, so the latency AND losses impact also the available capacity to TCP clients.
Now, many Active Queue Management (AQM) mechanisms, such as Random Early Detection (RED), have been proposed. And most of them work well with TCP, but Linux recently moved to CUBIC, is there enough information about the impact of those over CUBIC?
And you think the internet access and mobile phones are the problem? Try electricity. Last I checked regular books didn't need batteries, then again e-readers are cool and all, but why make a poor village expend on electricity when they have bigger problems, such as perhaps housing and clean water?
Power outages occur, no matter how hard you try to get over them. A UPS fails, battery fails, something can happen.
The worse of a power outage, it's not knowing what hanged and collapsed the whole computing room to cleanly come up to service again.
I my self have applied patches that don't break running stuff, but some stuff won't boot right.
As someone else said, it's not about one system it's a whole computing room restore what can take just one hour or 12 depending on the system that you didn't know just hanged and was extremely important for the other systems to come up clean.
Amazingly, it's interesting how publishers need to pay amazon, yet music and movies get money being in distribution content such as Netflix or Hulu. Would there be a flip of things soon where streaming becomes so large that movie studios would be also charged? Nah, I don't think so because ISPs are merging with TV networks, not publishers, right?
So the Pentagon posted on facebook "'I got 500 on cybersecurity who wants that bread?" or what?