build out a fiber (or wireless) from a block-level, or even subdivision level green box to the end point. After that, allow the private enterprise to connect to the boxes and then provide various services.
Building out the last mile but not the backhaul would still entail spending 96% of the money, and wouldn't leave you with a working network. This way, the whole thing is out of the control of Telstra, so that access can be sold wholesale without any conflicts of interest. ISPs will still get to compete on price (even small ones), and the bigger ones could still replace the backhaul segment with their own connection if they felt it gave them a competitive advantage.
I'd label this an attempt by Senator Conroy to backdoor his internet filtering into existence
He doesn't need to spend $43B to do that; passing legislation to force ISPs to do it for him is quite sufficient.
we'll likely have to pay $100/month for access and be limited to 20GB of data traffic (both up and downstream) per month.
We'd be wishing for $100/20GB, if Telstra built the network. Because this is wholesale-only (no Telstra-style conflicts of interest), ISPs can compete fairly.
The other side of the coin is our overseas links. Right now there's a comfortable duopoly keeping prices high (and quotas low), but that may change a little when PIPE Networks gets their Guam cable built. We're going to need a lot more, though, when 19M people get their connections bumped up to 100Mbps.
Speaking as an Australian (and therefore a convict who was run out of Britain years ago), I feel there's a staggering lack of respect for such an ancient and popular profession.
Frankly, if people don't stop discriminating against thieves, robbers, pilferers, bandits, crooks, larcenists, prowlers, plunderers and pirates in general, we're going to see a general strike from the whole industry - and think what that will do during the Economic Downturn!
Not in this sense, as games aren't just streams of data; they're generated on the fly.
GPU, certainly useful. PPU, yep. SPUs, not so much. They're great for stream processing of audio (also video codecs), occasionally helpful for physics, not so much for AI or control. They'd also be great for vertex and pixel processing (as originally intended), but Sony later added a GPU which does all that. The SPUs' limited memory access makes them hard to use for much, other than streaming.
Developers will probably find more uses for them, in time. Until then, the SPUs are often under-utilised, leaving developers with a single PowerPC core to do the bulk of the game work (compared to 3 PPC cores on the 360). That, plus the 50/50 ram split between CPU and GPU, is largely what's causing late nights for developers (at least on the hardware side).
The fundamental problem with the PS3 is that it's a game console.
If it was actually a media processor, the hardware would be perfectly suited. The Cell just isn't a good fit for the class of problems that games fall into.
Perhaps this is why Sony were pushing it so hard as a media gateway for your living room, rather than something you can play games with.
Because it doesn't actually do sharing at all. As usual, TFS is half crap and Taco didn't RTFA. A better article is here.
All it does is associate your Live ID with your login - that's why they call it Sign-in Assistant instead of iShare. It enables other [potential] apps to e.g. share files, amongst other things, but there's no functionality like that in this MS release.
What you can do is e.g. set up a Win7 Homegroup (read: private network), share drives/folders in the usual way, and allow only specified Live IDs access (as opposed to allowing local or domain accounts access). The only new part here is auto-sign-in to your Live ID to make this all more seamless.
Those numbers seem way off. At 10%, roughly 100W per square metre, Arizona's land area (295,000 km2) could produce 29.5TW, about 9x the US' average consumption of 3.3TW. Even if you divide by four to allow for night, cloudy days etc, that's still a lot less than what you're claiming.
And solar panels are hardly the most efficient approach, either. Solar thermal approaches currently give 20-30% efficiency, so you could conceivably power the entire US with about two-thirds of the Mojave Desert alone (57,000 km2 @ average 75W/m2 gives about 4.2 TW).
I can't imagine a less efficient way to get any actual work done:-(
Apart from the arm strain, I think that saying, "if open-parenthesis p-underscore-temp-var-x-y-z-b-b-q close-parenthesis newline open-curly-brace newline temp-var-x-y-z-b-b-q equals asterisk p-underscore-temp-var-x-y-z-b-b-q semicolon newline close-curly-brace newline", more than, say, once, would engender homicidal rage.
Captain Job always did admirable work, so I'm glad this was noticed.
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...the presiding judge was a member of The Pirate Bay (political) party? That's an organization that specializes in immaterial rights.
Didn't anyone else think 'Bridge to Terabit Ether'?
What a missed headline opportunity.
Better hope that you have no more than 4 customers on your node, and that they think "torrents" are what you see in Fargo streets.
Do you live within 100m of an exchange?
Don't worry - if you're in Tasmania (and who isn't?), they'll start building your PornoPipes as early as July.
build out a fiber (or wireless) from a block-level, or even subdivision level green box to the end point. After that, allow the private enterprise to connect to the boxes and then provide various services.
Building out the last mile but not the backhaul would still entail spending 96% of the money, and wouldn't leave you with a working network. This way, the whole thing is out of the control of Telstra, so that access can be sold wholesale without any conflicts of interest. ISPs will still get to compete on price (even small ones), and the bigger ones could still replace the backhaul segment with their own connection if they felt it gave them a competitive advantage.
I'd label this an attempt by Senator Conroy to backdoor his internet filtering into existence
He doesn't need to spend $43B to do that; passing legislation to force ISPs to do it for him is quite sufficient.
we'll likely have to pay $100/month for access and be limited to 20GB of data traffic (both up and downstream) per month.
We'd be wishing for $100/20GB, if Telstra built the network. Because this is wholesale-only (no Telstra-style conflicts of interest), ISPs can compete fairly.
The other side of the coin is our overseas links. Right now there's a comfortable duopoly keeping prices high (and quotas low), but that may change a little when PIPE Networks gets their Guam cable built. We're going to need a lot more, though, when 19M people get their connections bumped up to 100Mbps.
The other 10% will get satellite or wireless support, at 12 Mbps. It's still a big improvement for many.
Fact is, it's a big country, and running FTTH to every cattle station out in woop-woop is just silly. Can't please everyone.
"AK-47s for everybody!"
Speaking as an Australian (and therefore a convict who was run out of Britain years ago), I feel there's a staggering lack of respect for such an ancient and popular profession.
Frankly, if people don't stop discriminating against thieves, robbers, pilferers, bandits, crooks, larcenists, prowlers, plunderers and pirates in general, we're going to see a general strike from the whole industry - and think what that will do during the Economic Downturn!
Games fall into the category of media.
Not in this sense, as games aren't just streams of data; they're generated on the fly.
GPU, certainly useful. PPU, yep. SPUs, not so much. They're great for stream processing of audio (also video codecs), occasionally helpful for physics, not so much for AI or control. They'd also be great for vertex and pixel processing (as originally intended), but Sony later added a GPU which does all that. The SPUs' limited memory access makes them hard to use for much, other than streaming.
Developers will probably find more uses for them, in time. Until then, the SPUs are often under-utilised, leaving developers with a single PowerPC core to do the bulk of the game work (compared to 3 PPC cores on the 360). That, plus the 50/50 ram split between CPU and GPU, is largely what's causing late nights for developers (at least on the hardware side).
Pointing out fine legal distinctions - holy crap, he really is a lawyer on slashdot!!!
The fundamental problem with the PS3 is that it's a game console.
If it was actually a media processor, the hardware would be perfectly suited. The Cell just isn't a good fit for the class of problems that games fall into.
Perhaps this is why Sony were pushing it so hard as a media gateway for your living room, rather than something you can play games with.
Oh, and he's not a Senator, either. He's a Minister.
Because it doesn't actually do sharing at all. As usual, TFS is half crap and Taco didn't RTFA. A better article is here.
All it does is associate your Live ID with your login - that's why they call it Sign-in Assistant instead of iShare. It enables other [potential] apps to e.g. share files, amongst other things, but there's no functionality like that in this MS release.
What you can do is e.g. set up a Win7 Homegroup (read: private network), share drives/folders in the usual way, and allow only specified Live IDs access (as opposed to allowing local or domain accounts access). The only new part here is auto-sign-in to your Live ID to make this all more seamless.
Everyone knows radio waves have a lower frequency of calories than microwaves.
This is why microwaved food makes you fat.
...is gonna kick this guy's arse.
Those numbers seem way off. At 10%, roughly 100W per square metre, Arizona's land area (295,000 km2) could produce 29.5TW, about 9x the US' average consumption of 3.3TW. Even if you divide by four to allow for night, cloudy days etc, that's still a lot less than what you're claiming.
And solar panels are hardly the most efficient approach, either. Solar thermal approaches currently give 20-30% efficiency, so you could conceivably power the entire US with about two-thirds of the Mojave Desert alone (57,000 km2 @ average 75W/m2 gives about 4.2 TW).
Oh, I agree it would certainly have its uses. I just don't think it's appropriate for programming.
I don't think anyone even suggested that this is cool for coding or that all input devides should be replaced with this one.
Actually, yes, that's pretty much exactly what the OP suggested:
This is the future interface of parallel programming
This is the beginning of the end of keyboards and mice and typing.
I can't imagine a less efficient way to get any actual work done :-(
Apart from the arm strain, I think that saying, "if open-parenthesis p-underscore-temp-var-x-y-z-b-b-q close-parenthesis newline open-curly-brace newline temp-var-x-y-z-b-b-q equals asterisk p-underscore-temp-var-x-y-z-b-b-q semicolon newline close-curly-brace newline", more than, say, once, would engender homicidal rage.
You can replace the internal drive with your own, but you can't connect one to the USB port and download to it.
Already got that covered: Northern Siberia.
Captain Job always did admirable work, so I'm glad this was noticed.
I believe you have to actually go down to the surface of one of their planets, not just encounter their ships. Then you have to get home again (or just die, that works too).