Current Intel IGPs are about 10% slower than AMDs current. Intel is claiming some sizable performance boost in next gen IGPs, but the new AMD A10 is also getting that. We shall see.
How is DOS'ing a site anything like assault and what permanent damage did he cause? I am not saying he did no harm, but I question the amount of harm he caused being anything linked with his punishment. Joining a DOS for one minute and getting his punishment is like someone calling someone a racial slur, walking away, then getting charged with a "hate crime". OMG, he said something mean, once!
Because it's a civil issue. there was no destruction of property or people harmed. I also had intent of burning a camp-fire, which I well understood the soot going into the air will probably contribute to killing a cell or two in someone somewhere. But you wouldn't charge me with attempt homicide. This not a binary thing, otherwise everyone everywhere could be charged with attempted homicide because their actions would cause harm to someone else, but very little harm.
Here's a funny thing I watched on the PBS Nova with a host that has a PHD and is a very active member of the quantum research community. I could have miss-understood something, maybe he was dumbing it down too much, or maybe this group was just plain wrong and it won't pass peer review.
He was saying that recently, they have been doing tests where the used 3 photons, Photon A, B, and C. Photon A and B were entangled and quantum, then A was sent off a long ways away. Now, when one photon is entangled with another, when one of them is measured, it takes a random value and its entangled pair takes the opposite value. What they wanted to do was measure B to find out A, but that still doesn't allow you to communicate faster than light because the results are random.
This is where his claim gets strange. Photon C is already measured, so it they already know its value, they can even manufacture C to have whatever value they want. Then they entangle C with B. Because C is already measured, B immediately takes on the opposite value of C, but because B is still entangled with A, A then takes on the opposite value of B, which is what C is.. well was. This process destroys the value of C and effective makes it random, but now A has the value of C, which was known ahead of time. The one "get you" is that you can't "copy" the information without destroying the original. In his summary, he did claim it was faster than light.
They claim that this is hard, but they've been working on it and are working with another team somewhere else to recreate this.
Again, need to wait for peer-reviews and have this duplicated by others, but it sure sounded interesting.
It prompted me for my legal name, my birthdate, and my SSN. SSN is option to create an account, but from the sounds of it, required to actually get any pricing.
Well, the point of a mostly free market is to charge as much as the market will bare. When you're talking about your life, there's not much choice, it's not optional. Free market does not function when the consumer does not have a choice.
Anecdotal stories don't count. On average, Canada has better prevention, detection, lower overall cancer morality rates, and better 5 year post treatment expectancy rates than the USA in almost all categories of cancer. What you can't do in Canada is buy your way to the front of the line like in the USA.
My wife went to one of the top hospitals in the USA to get a specialized hormone level blood screening. A week later, got something in the mail saying it cost $5,000, but "this is not a bill". A month later, got a letter saying it was covered 100%.
Another time she got an MRI for migraines. The doctor didn't recommend it as "needed", so the insurance company disputed it and only covered it 80% instead of 100%. No fuss.
According to the "fine print", they had grounds to out-right not pay a penny for that MRI.
Like our highly ranked nation education, our hospitals are also ranked high in the nation, so many people come from out of state to get the best care from us. The hospital system uses this money to help subsidize local citizens to keep prices down for us. We get the best of both worlds, cheaper prices and better care because the rest of the nation is too busy trying to cut costs by lowering quality, causing the richer population to flock to us for services. Just another situation where the opposite effect happens.
I've never seen a plan stay the same. According to my company's HR, plans are re-negotiated every year. A key word here is "negotiated". A plan never spans more than one year. How does someone get to "keep their plan", if they never last longer than the current contract?
My health insurance went up 10% for 2014, which is less than the 15% it went up in 2013 because of increased costs caused by mostly uninsured people putting load on the hospital system. I wouldn't quite say it doubled. Yes, my coverage is the same.
Or maybe she should get a proper UPS for her FIOS if it's that important. We're talking about very very low power units that should run for a week on a standard car battery. Verizon should have better education on the subject, especially for the elderly. I personally think that there should always be a fixed line and that fixed line should have at least 3 days of up-time. How a company wants to do that is up to them, but hey should be responsible for making sure the system is reliable.
3. Go to the POTS/landline phone in the house.
4. Report power outage.
Already doing it wrong. If your where in Chattanooga, the fiber optic system would have already reported the outage. The electric company has saved $12mil and the local economy about an additional $54mil from their new fiber system just in power related issues alone. With a fiber optic system, the power company is able to detect and route power around bad areas and identify the bad areas and who is all affected.
My fiber ONT has two pots connections. With under a 5 watt max power draw, my ISP supplied UPS will last about 12 hours according to them. I could run my ONT on 8 double batteries for about 20 minutes. Or I could get a car battery and have 7 days of up-time. Assuming my CO doesn't run out of power first.
10+ cents per minute to go 30 miles is absolutely ridiculous considering that I can do the same with a cell phone it won't likely impact my bill
Old pricing data or is your telecom that expensive? I only know one family member who still has a land line, and he pays $15/month for unlimited main-continent calling.
FiOS may be a mistake from Verizon's short-term bottom line
It's not. By Verizon's own stats, they saved 100m in 2013 alone, by switching over 500,000 users to FIOS. Not only that, those users are now purchasing more services because FIOS allows more and better service, so revenue has increased. Cost went down, revenue went up, what's not to like?
Geometry calculations scale with the cube of the number of polygons. Non-ray-tracing engine's days are numbers and ray-tracing is soon(tm). Ray tracing is O(1 K), where K is large, current engines are O(n^3 K) where K is small. N is becoming an issue.
They have signal amplifiers and other powered equipment on the poles
Wow, they're doing that all wrong. A proper passive or active fiber network requires no electronics except for the head-unit in the CO or the ONT in the house.
Allow them to dismantle their copper network, but they must replace it with another network that has the same resiliency and is fully compatible with POTS devices. Their only alternative would be fiber.
I'll take a 12,000km line of fiber, and you take a 12,000km line of copper, and we'll see who can transmit 64kbit of voice data the easiest. Copper is high susceptible to noise and signal degradation. In the past, when I used to have a POTS, I could sometimes have issues talking because the line would get too staticy. But don't worry, it typically fixed itself after a while. Probably some environmental issue.
I assume total network usage would go down as fewer people would be streaming Netflix and YouTube, which are very high bandwidth, and instead using VOIP, which is low bandwidth.
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Current Intel IGPs are about 10% slower than AMDs current. Intel is claiming some sizable performance boost in next gen IGPs, but the new AMD A10 is also getting that. We shall see.
How is DOS'ing a site anything like assault and what permanent damage did he cause? I am not saying he did no harm, but I question the amount of harm he caused being anything linked with his punishment. Joining a DOS for one minute and getting his punishment is like someone calling someone a racial slur, walking away, then getting charged with a "hate crime". OMG, he said something mean, once!
Because it's a civil issue. there was no destruction of property or people harmed. I also had intent of burning a camp-fire, which I well understood the soot going into the air will probably contribute to killing a cell or two in someone somewhere. But you wouldn't charge me with attempt homicide. This not a binary thing, otherwise everyone everywhere could be charged with attempted homicide because their actions would cause harm to someone else, but very little harm.
The CO2 you emit is only killing the world a little bit, so you must be charged with mass genocide. There is a difference between a little and a lot.
Gravity is mysterious. We have never directly observed it, only indirectly by its influence on everything around it.
Here's a funny thing I watched on the PBS Nova with a host that has a PHD and is a very active member of the quantum research community. I could have miss-understood something, maybe he was dumbing it down too much, or maybe this group was just plain wrong and it won't pass peer review.
He was saying that recently, they have been doing tests where the used 3 photons, Photon A, B, and C. Photon A and B were entangled and quantum, then A was sent off a long ways away. Now, when one photon is entangled with another, when one of them is measured, it takes a random value and its entangled pair takes the opposite value. What they wanted to do was measure B to find out A, but that still doesn't allow you to communicate faster than light because the results are random.
This is where his claim gets strange. Photon C is already measured, so it they already know its value, they can even manufacture C to have whatever value they want. Then they entangle C with B. Because C is already measured, B immediately takes on the opposite value of C, but because B is still entangled with A, A then takes on the opposite value of B, which is what C is.. well was. This process destroys the value of C and effective makes it random, but now A has the value of C, which was known ahead of time. The one "get you" is that you can't "copy" the information without destroying the original. In his summary, he did claim it was faster than light.
They claim that this is hard, but they've been working on it and are working with another team somewhere else to recreate this.
Again, need to wait for peer-reviews and have this duplicated by others, but it sure sounded interesting.
It prompted me for my legal name, my birthdate, and my SSN. SSN is option to create an account, but from the sounds of it, required to actually get any pricing.
Well, the point of a mostly free market is to charge as much as the market will bare. When you're talking about your life, there's not much choice, it's not optional. Free market does not function when the consumer does not have a choice.
Anecdotal stories don't count. On average, Canada has better prevention, detection, lower overall cancer morality rates, and better 5 year post treatment expectancy rates than the USA in almost all categories of cancer. What you can't do in Canada is buy your way to the front of the line like in the USA.
Cuba has higher 5 year survival rates for all types of cancer, than the USA. Yay, we're behind Cuba.
My wife went to one of the top hospitals in the USA to get a specialized hormone level blood screening. A week later, got something in the mail saying it cost $5,000, but "this is not a bill". A month later, got a letter saying it was covered 100%.
Another time she got an MRI for migraines. The doctor didn't recommend it as "needed", so the insurance company disputed it and only covered it 80% instead of 100%. No fuss.
According to the "fine print", they had grounds to out-right not pay a penny for that MRI.
Like our highly ranked nation education, our hospitals are also ranked high in the nation, so many people come from out of state to get the best care from us. The hospital system uses this money to help subsidize local citizens to keep prices down for us. We get the best of both worlds, cheaper prices and better care because the rest of the nation is too busy trying to cut costs by lowering quality, causing the richer population to flock to us for services. Just another situation where the opposite effect happens.
I've never seen a plan stay the same. According to my company's HR, plans are re-negotiated every year. A key word here is "negotiated". A plan never spans more than one year. How does someone get to "keep their plan", if they never last longer than the current contract?
My health insurance went up 10% for 2014, which is less than the 15% it went up in 2013 because of increased costs caused by mostly uninsured people putting load on the hospital system. I wouldn't quite say it doubled. Yes, my coverage is the same.
Or maybe she should get a proper UPS for her FIOS if it's that important. We're talking about very very low power units that should run for a week on a standard car battery. Verizon should have better education on the subject, especially for the elderly. I personally think that there should always be a fixed line and that fixed line should have at least 3 days of up-time. How a company wants to do that is up to them, but hey should be responsible for making sure the system is reliable.
3. Go to the POTS/landline phone in the house. 4. Report power outage.
Already doing it wrong. If your where in Chattanooga, the fiber optic system would have already reported the outage. The electric company has saved $12mil and the local economy about an additional $54mil from their new fiber system just in power related issues alone. With a fiber optic system, the power company is able to detect and route power around bad areas and identify the bad areas and who is all affected.
I derped at reading.
What hook? The only phones I ever see on POTS are wireless. When the power goes out, they can't use their phones.
My fiber ONT has two pots connections. With under a 5 watt max power draw, my ISP supplied UPS will last about 12 hours according to them. I could run my ONT on 8 double batteries for about 20 minutes. Or I could get a car battery and have 7 days of up-time. Assuming my CO doesn't run out of power first.
10+ cents per minute to go 30 miles is absolutely ridiculous considering that I can do the same with a cell phone it won't likely impact my bill
Old pricing data or is your telecom that expensive? I only know one family member who still has a land line, and he pays $15/month for unlimited main-continent calling.
FiOS may be a mistake from Verizon's short-term bottom line
It's not. By Verizon's own stats, they saved 100m in 2013 alone, by switching over 500,000 users to FIOS. Not only that, those users are now purchasing more services because FIOS allows more and better service, so revenue has increased. Cost went down, revenue went up, what's not to like?
Geometry calculations scale with the cube of the number of polygons. Non-ray-tracing engine's days are numbers and ray-tracing is soon(tm). Ray tracing is O(1 K), where K is large, current engines are O(n^3 K) where K is small. N is becoming an issue.
They have signal amplifiers and other powered equipment on the poles
Wow, they're doing that all wrong. A proper passive or active fiber network requires no electronics except for the head-unit in the CO or the ONT in the house.
Allow them to dismantle their copper network, but they must replace it with another network that has the same resiliency and is fully compatible with POTS devices. Their only alternative would be fiber.
I'll take a 12,000km line of fiber, and you take a 12,000km line of copper, and we'll see who can transmit 64kbit of voice data the easiest. Copper is high susceptible to noise and signal degradation. In the past, when I used to have a POTS, I could sometimes have issues talking because the line would get too staticy. But don't worry, it typically fixed itself after a while. Probably some environmental issue.
That is one anecdote to support an opinion.
I assume total network usage would go down as fewer people would be streaming Netflix and YouTube, which are very high bandwidth, and instead using VOIP, which is low bandwidth.