I just read something that talked about violence among tribes and on average, intra-tribal violence was about 400% higher than inter-tribal. Turns out war and fighting is a very uncommon state between tribes, but shows up commonly with larger societies.
Explains how many companies, like Verizon, Comcast, RIAA, etc seem to not care. They're just all psychopaths that turn off their empathy switch while doing business.
You do realize that the Gates kids are only getting 2mil each from inheritance. That isn't even a rounding error compared to the amount of money Bill still has. All of his money is going into a charity.
Just making sure about the difference between business and commercial uses of Internet. If Google sells a 1Gb line and you're pegging that 1Gb during peak hours because you are selling virtual servers, that is quite different than someone using 50Mb/s running a couple of game servers and taking donations, and you some times burst to 1Gb while seeding on Bittorrent.
They were LOSING about $1m/year running the network, so giving the fiber for free to Google was better than throwing it in the garbage. Their issue was they paid a 3rd party to install the fiber, but didn't pay them enough to document were they installed the fiber, so little planning, then they paid 3rd parties to manage the network, which were about as good as the company that install the fiber in the first place.
What Provo had was a fiber network were they didn't have documentation on their infrastructure, charged customer an up-front $5k installation fee, and didn't pass houses all at once. It is much more expensive to run fiber to the property line on demand, instead of while they were installing the fiber.
It was a horribly designed and managed network with lowest bidding with no regard to quality.
As for private lands, guess what? They need rights of way there, too, even monopolies. Most of the rights of way have already been granted, so it's not like a newcomer would have to spend a lot of time going around buying them up. They'll just sign the municipality franchise agreement and get access to the existing ones.
Only certified telcom or cable companies get blanket access to right-of-ways. Everyone else that wants to be an ISP has to get both city permission and individual property owner permission. I've seen new ISPs try to come in and pulled out before starting because one person in the right place demanded that the ISP pay tens of thousands of dollars if they want to poke a hole on the edge of his property.
It only takes a few greedy citizens to be a show-stopper for the entire city.
As for another telecom or cable company coming in, the city doesn't want another set of copper lines getting placed, so that's a no-go. Indirectly, there is a limit saying only 1 telecom and 1 cable company, and no naked ISPs because of greedy citizens.
past efforts to use common GPU's for video encoding haven't been particularly successful.
GPUs accelerate ate synchronous parallel code, but video encoding tends to have a mix of non-synchronous and serial code paths, making 2Tflop GPUs barely faster than a 100Gflop CPU.
Its always been more power efficient to employ more complex compression (more CPU work) over transferring more bits.
I agree. Wireless eats a lot of power and newer wireless devices and shut-down and go idle much more quickly. Even quicker idle wireless in the pipeline.
List of places in the USA with densities great than 12,000 per square mile. What's your excuse now?
1 Guttenberg New York City New Jersey 56878.9
2 Union City New York City New Jersey 52977.8
3 West New York New York City New Jersey 44995.1
4 Hoboken New York City New Jersey 30239.2
5 New York City New York City New York 26402.9
6 Maywood Los Angeles California 23887.2
7 Cliffside Park New York City New Jersey 23847.7
8 East Newark New York City New Jersey 23330
9 Passaic New York City New Jersey 21804.7
10 Cudahy Los Angeles California 21627.7
11 Great Neck Plaza New York City New York 20853.4
12 Irvington[b] New York City New Jersey 20528.3
13 North Bay Village Miami Florida 20267.1
14 Huntington Park Los Angeles California 20252.4
15 Kaser New York City New York 19342.6
16 West Hollywood Los Angeles California 18992.7
17 Somerville Boston Massachusetts 18868.1
18 East Orange New York City New Jersey 17776.6
19 Bell Gardens Los Angeles California 17721.3
20 Paterson New York City New Jersey 17675.4
21 Sweetwater Miami Florida 17439.7
22 San Francisco San Francisco California 17179.2
23 Poplar Hills Louisville Kentucky 17036
24 Long Beach New York City New York 16594.9
25 Central Falls Providence Rhode Island 16146.7
26 Jersey City New York City New Jersey 16093.7
27 Chelsea Boston Massachusetts 16036.8
28 Lawndale Los Angeles California 16036.7
29 Weehawken[b] New York City New Jersey 15891.3
30 South Floral Park New York City New York 15776.3
31 Cambridge Boston Massachusetts 15766.1
32 Mount Vernon New York City New York 15689.3
33 Fairview New York City New Jersey 15585.5
34 Hawaiian Gardens Los Angeles California 15389.5
35 Stone Park Chicago Illinois 15378.2
36 Hempstead New York City New York 15366.1
37 Sunny Isles Beach Miami Florida 15231.1
38 Orange[b] New York City New Jersey 14903.7
39 Bell Los Angeles California 14802.5
40 Cicero Chicago Illinois 14645.2
41 Lynwood Los Angeles California 14389.2
42 Palisades Park New York City New Jersey 14112.4
43 Fort Lee New York City New Jersey 14001.7
44 Garfield New York City New Jersey 13976
45 Hawthorne Los Angeles California 13879.4
46 Berwyn Chicago Illinois 13876.2
47 Bay Harbor Islands Miami Florida 13875.4
48 Millbourne Philadelphia Pennsylvania 13749.1
49 Daly City San Francisco California 13703.8
50 Elmwood Park Chicago Illinois 13328.4
51 Boston Boston Massachusetts 13321
52 South Gate Los Angeles California 13084.6
53 Manorhaven New York City New York 13055.6
54 Mount Rainier Washington, D.C. Maryland 13038.5
55 Hermosa Beach Los Angeles California 12982.4
56 Woodlynne Philadelphia New Jersey 12939.4
57 Island Park New York City New York 12865.7
58 New Square New York City New York 12811.8
59 Chicago Chicago Illinois 12750.3
My local ISP is running fiber to people several miles outside of the city. They even turned down an offer from the government for that Broadband bill because it had too many strings. Entirely private family owned ISP that is making sure everyone gets fiber around here. I guess it actually saves them money in the long run because copper is expensive to maintain.
That's why you think it is so cheap. Other people subsidize your network habits. You're welcome.
Why should I have to subsidize police? People should pay for their own police force.
Could you imaging how efficient our police and justice system would be if it was privatized?
How many other things that benefit all of society should we not socialize? Ohh, education! Then we could really have a serfdom by controlling the knowledge!
If I wanted, I could get 50Mbps from my local cable company.
I get that'd sell your a sticker speed of 10Gb if they could. You ignore how much they have to throttle to keep their over-subscribed nodes from blowing up during peak hours.
This never happens. No on ever develops anything new in software, what they develop is new expressions of something that already existed. Use copyright.
Software is entirely a thought process. The code itself is not tied to hardware, only the compiled result is. As for medicine, that is one of the few real applications for patents. Most of the cost of medicine is in trail-and-error, along with lots of ethical restrictions before coming to market.
Software has no ethical restrictions and the only trial-and-error portion is with the math side of it. Software is just a throught process.
I forgot to add, my ISP also states that they do absolutely no QoS, traffic shaping, or reserved bandwidth(except for maintenance). All of their services, from TV to telephone is over the same link as your Internet via IP. They just make sure that there is no congestion by keeping ample bandwidth.
In a long chat with a senior technician who had worked at my ISP for over 10 years, he said they proactively monitor all links in their network and make sure they have plenty of free bandwidth so there is no congestion internally, and the trunk is easier to monitor since it's an aggregation point, so it tends to not fluctuate much, so keeping it uncongested is much easier.
He also mentioned that they have 3 uplinks that all work as fail-over or over-flow. So even if they did manage to get congestion for some reason, they would "quickly", by some definition, re-route some traffic over the other links until they could get their main line upgraded. But he said they have never had to do that because the proactively keep the trunk upgraded such that it can handle any burst that they have encountered.
My ISP says "no servers", but then says that they will never monitor or investigate your traffic, except by account holder's request, by judicial request, or substantial proof of illegal activity . If that is the case, when how will they ever know if I am running a server? Their terms of service also do not have an escape for high bandwidth usage, it actually explicitly says that if they ever need to cap bandwidth, they will do it ISP wide and not on a per-customer basis.
The funny thing is their "Open Internet Policy" states that all non-illegal network applications are allowed on their network, with no mention of any exceptions, like "servers". Their "Open Internet Policy" actually doesn't make reference to servers at all except about port 25 being blocked by default for mail servers, but can be opened by request for any customer; it's only their "Master Agreement" that says "No servers".
I personally think it's just a "back-door" for my ISP to keep people from running commercial datacenters on residential lines. Think about it, my ISP sells symmetrical Active Fiber Gigabit Ethernet, and actively advertises that customers have "dedicated" bandwidth, such that no customer should see any congestion on the ISP's network, and properly size their trunk lines to not have congestion during peak hours.
With advertising claims like these, you need a way to keep commercial users from taking advantage. I assume Google Fiber is similar.
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I just read something that talked about violence among tribes and on average, intra-tribal violence was about 400% higher than inter-tribal. Turns out war and fighting is a very uncommon state between tribes, but shows up commonly with larger societies.
Confirmed in Chrome also.
Explains how many companies, like Verizon, Comcast, RIAA, etc seem to not care. They're just all psychopaths that turn off their empathy switch while doing business.
Keys are expensive to generate. It would kill any server to have to create new one for each session.
You do realize that the Gates kids are only getting 2mil each from inheritance. That isn't even a rounding error compared to the amount of money Bill still has. All of his money is going into a charity.
Just making sure about the difference between business and commercial uses of Internet. If Google sells a 1Gb line and you're pegging that 1Gb during peak hours because you are selling virtual servers, that is quite different than someone using 50Mb/s running a couple of game servers and taking donations, and you some times burst to 1Gb while seeding on Bittorrent.
They were LOSING about $1m/year running the network, so giving the fiber for free to Google was better than throwing it in the garbage. Their issue was they paid a 3rd party to install the fiber, but didn't pay them enough to document were they installed the fiber, so little planning, then they paid 3rd parties to manage the network, which were about as good as the company that install the fiber in the first place.
What Provo had was a fiber network were they didn't have documentation on their infrastructure, charged customer an up-front $5k installation fee, and didn't pass houses all at once. It is much more expensive to run fiber to the property line on demand, instead of while they were installing the fiber.
It was a horribly designed and managed network with lowest bidding with no regard to quality.
As for private lands, guess what? They need rights of way there, too, even monopolies. Most of the rights of way have already been granted, so it's not like a newcomer would have to spend a lot of time going around buying them up. They'll just sign the municipality franchise agreement and get access to the existing ones.
Only certified telcom or cable companies get blanket access to right-of-ways. Everyone else that wants to be an ISP has to get both city permission and individual property owner permission. I've seen new ISPs try to come in and pulled out before starting because one person in the right place demanded that the ISP pay tens of thousands of dollars if they want to poke a hole on the edge of his property.
It only takes a few greedy citizens to be a show-stopper for the entire city.
As for another telecom or cable company coming in, the city doesn't want another set of copper lines getting placed, so that's a no-go. Indirectly, there is a limit saying only 1 telecom and 1 cable company, and no naked ISPs because of greedy citizens.
USPS is not subsidized , it is entirely self-reliant for money.
past efforts to use common GPU's for video encoding haven't been particularly successful.
GPUs accelerate ate synchronous parallel code, but video encoding tends to have a mix of non-synchronous and serial code paths, making 2Tflop GPUs barely faster than a 100Gflop CPU.
Its always been more power efficient to employ more complex compression (more CPU work) over transferring more bits.
I agree. Wireless eats a lot of power and newer wireless devices and shut-down and go idle much more quickly. Even quicker idle wireless in the pipeline.
Understanding C typically means understanding memory layout. Most other languages use managed memory, so it does make a lot of sense.
Anyway, optimal memory access patterns for GPUs are completely different, so you'd better change your loops.
I've been a pro-DX11 guy, but GO OpenGL. Nice. I hope some new Linux Steam game comes out to make use of this stuff soon(tm).
List of places in the USA with densities great than 12,000 per square mile. What's your excuse now?
1 Guttenberg New York City New Jersey 56878.9
2 Union City New York City New Jersey 52977.8
3 West New York New York City New Jersey 44995.1
4 Hoboken New York City New Jersey 30239.2
5 New York City New York City New York 26402.9
6 Maywood Los Angeles California 23887.2
7 Cliffside Park New York City New Jersey 23847.7
8 East Newark New York City New Jersey 23330
9 Passaic New York City New Jersey 21804.7
10 Cudahy Los Angeles California 21627.7
11 Great Neck Plaza New York City New York 20853.4
12 Irvington[b] New York City New Jersey 20528.3
13 North Bay Village Miami Florida 20267.1
14 Huntington Park Los Angeles California 20252.4
15 Kaser New York City New York 19342.6
16 West Hollywood Los Angeles California 18992.7
17 Somerville Boston Massachusetts 18868.1
18 East Orange New York City New Jersey 17776.6
19 Bell Gardens Los Angeles California 17721.3
20 Paterson New York City New Jersey 17675.4
21 Sweetwater Miami Florida 17439.7
22 San Francisco San Francisco California 17179.2
23 Poplar Hills Louisville Kentucky 17036
24 Long Beach New York City New York 16594.9
25 Central Falls Providence Rhode Island 16146.7
26 Jersey City New York City New Jersey 16093.7
27 Chelsea Boston Massachusetts 16036.8
28 Lawndale Los Angeles California 16036.7
29 Weehawken[b] New York City New Jersey 15891.3
30 South Floral Park New York City New York 15776.3
31 Cambridge Boston Massachusetts 15766.1
32 Mount Vernon New York City New York 15689.3
33 Fairview New York City New Jersey 15585.5
34 Hawaiian Gardens Los Angeles California 15389.5
35 Stone Park Chicago Illinois 15378.2
36 Hempstead New York City New York 15366.1
37 Sunny Isles Beach Miami Florida 15231.1
38 Orange[b] New York City New Jersey 14903.7
39 Bell Los Angeles California 14802.5
40 Cicero Chicago Illinois 14645.2
41 Lynwood Los Angeles California 14389.2
42 Palisades Park New York City New Jersey 14112.4
43 Fort Lee New York City New Jersey 14001.7
44 Garfield New York City New Jersey 13976
45 Hawthorne Los Angeles California 13879.4
46 Berwyn Chicago Illinois 13876.2
47 Bay Harbor Islands Miami Florida 13875.4
48 Millbourne Philadelphia Pennsylvania 13749.1
49 Daly City San Francisco California 13703.8
50 Elmwood Park Chicago Illinois 13328.4
51 Boston Boston Massachusetts 13321
52 South Gate Los Angeles California 13084.6
53 Manorhaven New York City New York 13055.6
54 Mount Rainier Washington, D.C. Maryland 13038.5
55 Hermosa Beach Los Angeles California 12982.4
56 Woodlynne Philadelphia New Jersey 12939.4
57 Island Park New York City New York 12865.7
58 New Square New York City New York 12811.8
59 Chicago Chicago Illinois 12750.3
So they have 1/3rd the USA's population density? How does that help?
My local ISP is running fiber to people several miles outside of the city. They even turned down an offer from the government for that Broadband bill because it had too many strings. Entirely private family owned ISP that is making sure everyone gets fiber around here. I guess it actually saves them money in the long run because copper is expensive to maintain.
That's why you think it is so cheap. Other people subsidize your network habits. You're welcome.
Why should I have to subsidize police? People should pay for their own police force.
Could you imaging how efficient our police and justice system would be if it was privatized?
How many other things that benefit all of society should we not socialize? Ohh, education! Then we could really have a serfdom by controlling the knowledge!
I love this privatize everything game.
If I wanted, I could get 50Mbps from my local cable company.
I get that'd sell your a sticker speed of 10Gb if they could. You ignore how much they have to throttle to keep their over-subscribed nodes from blowing up during peak hours.
Provo UT doesn't even know where their fiber is. That gives you an idea of what kind of management they had.
you've developed a new software product
This never happens. No on ever develops anything new in software, what they develop is new expressions of something that already existed. Use copyright.
Software is entirely a thought process. The code itself is not tied to hardware, only the compiled result is. As for medicine, that is one of the few real applications for patents. Most of the cost of medicine is in trail-and-error, along with lots of ethical restrictions before coming to market.
Software has no ethical restrictions and the only trial-and-error portion is with the math side of it. Software is just a throught process.
Most of Intel's new fabs and upcoming fabs are in the USA, but they aren't work for hire.
1.45^(1/10) is simpler 1.0378552826828714822268271657159
I forgot to add, my ISP also states that they do absolutely no QoS, traffic shaping, or reserved bandwidth(except for maintenance). All of their services, from TV to telephone is over the same link as your Internet via IP. They just make sure that there is no congestion by keeping ample bandwidth.
In a long chat with a senior technician who had worked at my ISP for over 10 years, he said they proactively monitor all links in their network and make sure they have plenty of free bandwidth so there is no congestion internally, and the trunk is easier to monitor since it's an aggregation point, so it tends to not fluctuate much, so keeping it uncongested is much easier.
He also mentioned that they have 3 uplinks that all work as fail-over or over-flow. So even if they did manage to get congestion for some reason, they would "quickly", by some definition, re-route some traffic over the other links until they could get their main line upgraded. But he said they have never had to do that because the proactively keep the trunk upgraded such that it can handle any burst that they have encountered.
My ISP says "no servers", but then says that they will never monitor or investigate your traffic, except by account holder's request, by judicial request, or substantial proof of illegal activity . If that is the case, when how will they ever know if I am running a server? Their terms of service also do not have an escape for high bandwidth usage, it actually explicitly says that if they ever need to cap bandwidth, they will do it ISP wide and not on a per-customer basis.
The funny thing is their "Open Internet Policy" states that all non-illegal network applications are allowed on their network, with no mention of any exceptions, like "servers". Their "Open Internet Policy" actually doesn't make reference to servers at all except about port 25 being blocked by default for mail servers, but can be opened by request for any customer; it's only their "Master Agreement" that says "No servers".
I personally think it's just a "back-door" for my ISP to keep people from running commercial datacenters on residential lines. Think about it, my ISP sells symmetrical Active Fiber Gigabit Ethernet, and actively advertises that customers have "dedicated" bandwidth, such that no customer should see any congestion on the ISP's network, and properly size their trunk lines to not have congestion during peak hours.
With advertising claims like these, you need a way to keep commercial users from taking advantage. I assume Google Fiber is similar.