DSL bandwidth is shared at the node "dslam". My mom gets a lot of jitter(20ms) an 80s pings to her ISP less than 1 mile down the road. The same speed fiber connections get about 20ms pings and 5ms-10ms of jitter to the same internal router. They just started to offer fiber, but it's an extra $30/mo over the dsl for no increase in speed, but it does offer higher tiers.
We know it's rotating at some fast rate because the swirling of space puts stress on the matter and causes it to emit radiation. Swirling is caused by rotation.
It doesn't matter.. pun? Gravity bends space, not "pulls in matter". A black-hole is pulling in space at speeds greater than c, which means light cannot escape.
Nothing can move through space faster than c, but space itself can move faster than c. How do you think the universe expanded to its current size in less time than it takes for light to move through it? Big bang happens, and then space expands much much faster than c, giving us our cosmic background radiation.
Hooking up a farm is only 2-3x more expensive than hooking up an apartment in the middle of the city. Based on the case-studies and research for Minnesota, hooking up farms actually increases the net-income of the state more than the cost of connecting the farms.
In other words, the oppertunity cost of not trenching fiber to a farm 35mi out of the city is more than the cost of trenching it.
I doubt that anyone is going to say "Shoot, its 73 today whereas 60 years ago it was 70, Oh, its just too hot, I can't work today".
It's a 3 degree change in the average across the globe and with wider variations.
It's more like in one part of the Earth "Shoot, its 10f today whereas 60 years ago it was 40f" and in another part of the world "Shoot, its 90f today whereas 60 years ago it was 70f"
But don't worry, it's only a 3 degree average increase. This last year alone, over 1,000 high temp records were broken around the world in only a 2 week period. That could easily be just a fluke, but it still doesn't make me feel any better about the constant increase of average temps that is happening every year for over 30 years in a row.
It did occur and it is still happening. You living under a rock? Next thing we'll hear is that 640KB of memory is enough and we still don't use more than 640KB.
You know, the setting the top 9 global record temps in the past 10 years type stuff
No warming for the past 17 years? Every year has been warmer than the last for the past 30 years in a row. We really don't have enough long term data to tell if this is a normal cycle, but why chance it? There are small simple things that can be easily done to help reduce green house gas emission and general pollution.
Paraphrasing someone sarcastically talking about anti-global warming people: "We have strong evidence that what we're doing is killing the planet, but no absolute proof, so why stop?"
Google may hand over info to the feds because it is required by law, but they try their best to notify the end user and ini many cases, used their own lawyers to fight requests on behalf of the end user. Google is the only company to be transparent and stand up for the end user when it comes to federal requests for data.
I recommend you learning the difference between personal data and anonymized statistical information. Hint, if you don't see someone's name, government identification number(ssn/etc), email address, home address, etc, then it is not personal information.
Streetview affair? Unless I'm missing something, they collected public information, no different that collecting public records and compiling the information in an easy to use way.
I am not standing up for Google's mistakes, but if you want to make an argument, better make sure you have some logic to back it up.
It's more like you were on vacation and gone for two weeks when your concerned neighbor called to let you know that they noticed you were gone for a while, went to check-in to make sure you were all-right, and noticed you left your door unlocked, so you called the police on them.
It is just as easy for the federal system to monitor and electronically audit in a near real-time fashion. Whoops, more money going out than coming in? Something is amiss.
In school, I had a guest speaker who talked about their money-laundering detection system. All it did was monitor money flow of businesses across the country. It was able to find all kinds of incidents of money-laundering with a very low false-positive rate. If they can detect money-laundering with a high rate of accuracy, I can't see a bank easily slipping in a few extra deposits.
I am not saying that the ads are not unwanted, but companies who pay for ads already pay for the bandwidth. Bandwidth sia nearly free commodity, it's not their fault your ISP overcharges by magnitudes.
How long will someone with a good degree stay with a low paying job when better opportunities open? Going to get some massive turn over.
I guess the new question is, how many art/history/psychology/philosophy majors does it take to flip a burger? Not only do they dilute the value of said degrees for people who really do enjoy art/history/psychology/philosophy, but they now have a ton of debt to pay off.
If the dad has to put time into this then you need to estimate what his time is worth - in particular the opportunity cost of him not being available to do other fatherly stuff.
If he's doing much of his work with his son, then he's getting a good return on time spent.
Fiber is more future proof. They are starting to have issues breaking past 40Gb/s with copper, but have no issues break 1Tb/s with fiber, plus like you said, distance.
Based on Comcast's size and going rates for fast connections, Comcast probably pays less than $1/mbit/month. I doubt trunk bandwidth costs even factor into pricing. Most of the cost for their trunk is probably tied up in fixed location/leasing costs.
Not to say that Comcast may not be strict about enforcing that ToS server rule, but Google Fiber has the same ToS but actively encourages start-ups to host servers. Both Google and the city have bragged about how people are buying up houses and creating make-shift datacenters.
CPUs want memory sizes, cache line sizes, page sizes, and alignments to be done around powers of two, but for some reason people want to see powers of 10?
Using base 10 only gives people a false sense of understanding, but causes confusion any time differences collide.
Some times you're better off just learning something correctly than thinking you know something, but you don't. Not the mention ambiguous definitions of units.
Around here, HR shows prospective employees around, but our dept sends in our supervisor and two programmers to interview. HR only does very basic filtering and lets our department handle the rest.
There is high demand for STEM and not enough people to fill. I've been getting head-hunted for years. Constant bombardment of high paying jobs($80k-$100k), but I'm happy where I am. Pretty good for a $20k state uni education and fresh out of college when all of the calls started.
If you got replaced by someone with a VISA, it wasn't for your salary.
The larger the population and the more educated the population, the better the economic strength of the population. Immigration of tech savvy people is one of the best ways to help the citizens.
Money gets its value from the potential of services. The more people, the more services, the more value money has.
And then with these immigrants coming in, it puts further downward pressure on salaries - which is EXACTLY what industry wants.
If you're talking about R&D/Tech jobs, then that's a good thing. Prices go down, more investment goes into creating local jobs, we get a leg up on the rest of the world, our money gains value.
The only down side is our salary goes down, but that's only for people with similar skills. If you paid $100k for an education of the same quality that one could get for $10k somewhere else, then you're getting ripped off. Blame the educational system.
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DSL bandwidth is shared at the node "dslam". My mom gets a lot of jitter(20ms) an 80s pings to her ISP less than 1 mile down the road. The same speed fiber connections get about 20ms pings and 5ms-10ms of jitter to the same internal router. They just started to offer fiber, but it's an extra $30/mo over the dsl for no increase in speed, but it does offer higher tiers.
We know it's rotating at some fast rate because the swirling of space puts stress on the matter and causes it to emit radiation. Swirling is caused by rotation.
It doesn't matter.. pun? Gravity bends space, not "pulls in matter". A black-hole is pulling in space at speeds greater than c, which means light cannot escape.
Nothing can move through space faster than c, but space itself can move faster than c. How do you think the universe expanded to its current size in less time than it takes for light to move through it? Big bang happens, and then space expands much much faster than c, giving us our cosmic background radiation.
Hooking up a farm is only 2-3x more expensive than hooking up an apartment in the middle of the city. Based on the case-studies and research for Minnesota, hooking up farms actually increases the net-income of the state more than the cost of connecting the farms.
In other words, the oppertunity cost of not trenching fiber to a farm 35mi out of the city is more than the cost of trenching it.
Funny how that works.
I doubt that anyone is going to say "Shoot, its 73 today whereas 60 years ago it was 70, Oh, its just too hot, I can't work today".
It's a 3 degree change in the average across the globe and with wider variations.
It's more like in one part of the Earth "Shoot, its 10f today whereas 60 years ago it was 40f" and in another part of the world "Shoot, its 90f today whereas 60 years ago it was 70f"
But don't worry, it's only a 3 degree average increase. This last year alone, over 1,000 high temp records were broken around the world in only a 2 week period. That could easily be just a fluke, but it still doesn't make me feel any better about the constant increase of average temps that is happening every year for over 30 years in a row.
Predicted warming did not occur
It did occur and it is still happening. You living under a rock? Next thing we'll hear is that 640KB of memory is enough and we still don't use more than 640KB.
This warming https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7mjteSF7FW4/UQE4QTzUVtI/AAAAAAABMNQ/rBg-y7QjGv8/s821/climate_365_temperature_graph_final+(2).jpg
You know, the setting the top 9 global record temps in the past 10 years type stuff
No warming for the past 17 years? Every year has been warmer than the last for the past 30 years in a row. We really don't have enough long term data to tell if this is a normal cycle, but why chance it? There are small simple things that can be easily done to help reduce green house gas emission and general pollution.
Paraphrasing someone sarcastically talking about anti-global warming people: "We have strong evidence that what we're doing is killing the planet, but no absolute proof, so why stop?"
After comparing metrics from Midwest USA to Southern USA, I would say it's dead on.
Google may hand over info to the feds because it is required by law, but they try their best to notify the end user and ini many cases, used their own lawyers to fight requests on behalf of the end user. Google is the only company to be transparent and stand up for the end user when it comes to federal requests for data.
I recommend you learning the difference between personal data and anonymized statistical information. Hint, if you don't see someone's name, government identification number(ssn/etc), email address, home address, etc, then it is not personal information.
Streetview affair? Unless I'm missing something, they collected public information, no different that collecting public records and compiling the information in an easy to use way.
I am not standing up for Google's mistakes, but if you want to make an argument, better make sure you have some logic to back it up.
It's more like you were on vacation and gone for two weeks when your concerned neighbor called to let you know that they noticed you were gone for a while, went to check-in to make sure you were all-right, and noticed you left your door unlocked, so you called the police on them.
It is just as easy for the federal system to monitor and electronically audit in a near real-time fashion. Whoops, more money going out than coming in? Something is amiss.
In school, I had a guest speaker who talked about their money-laundering detection system. All it did was monitor money flow of businesses across the country. It was able to find all kinds of incidents of money-laundering with a very low false-positive rate. If they can detect money-laundering with a high rate of accuracy, I can't see a bank easily slipping in a few extra deposits.
I am not saying that the ads are not unwanted, but companies who pay for ads already pay for the bandwidth. Bandwidth sia nearly free commodity, it's not their fault your ISP overcharges by magnitudes.
How long will someone with a good degree stay with a low paying job when better opportunities open? Going to get some massive turn over.
I guess the new question is, how many art/history/psychology/philosophy majors does it take to flip a burger? Not only do they dilute the value of said degrees for people who really do enjoy art/history/psychology/philosophy, but they now have a ton of debt to pay off.
Statistics doesn't care about single data points, Flu shot saves lives.
If a family member had an adverse reaction, I would question getting it myself, but for the average person, go ahead.
A 4ghz i7 with 8GB of ram and ATI6950 pulls under 350watts when the CPU and GPU are pegged, and that's at the wall.
If the dad has to put time into this then you need to estimate what his time is worth - in particular the opportunity cost of him not being available to do other fatherly stuff.
If he's doing much of his work with his son, then he's getting a good return on time spent.
Fiber is more future proof. They are starting to have issues breaking past 40Gb/s with copper, but have no issues break 1Tb/s with fiber, plus like you said, distance.
Based on Comcast's size and going rates for fast connections, Comcast probably pays less than $1/mbit/month. I doubt trunk bandwidth costs even factor into pricing. Most of the cost for their trunk is probably tied up in fixed location/leasing costs.
Not to say that Comcast may not be strict about enforcing that ToS server rule, but Google Fiber has the same ToS but actively encourages start-ups to host servers. Both Google and the city have bragged about how people are buying up houses and creating make-shift datacenters.
CPUs want memory sizes, cache line sizes, page sizes, and alignments to be done around powers of two, but for some reason people want to see powers of 10?
Using base 10 only gives people a false sense of understanding, but causes confusion any time differences collide.
Some times you're better off just learning something correctly than thinking you know something, but you don't. Not the mention ambiguous definitions of units.
Around here, HR shows prospective employees around, but our dept sends in our supervisor and two programmers to interview. HR only does very basic filtering and lets our department handle the rest.
Techies have a 3.3% unemployment rate, and some specific fields are sub 1%. I don't think we have much to worry about from immigrants.
There is high demand for STEM and not enough people to fill. I've been getting head-hunted for years. Constant bombardment of high paying jobs($80k-$100k), but I'm happy where I am. Pretty good for a $20k state uni education and fresh out of college when all of the calls started.
If you got replaced by someone with a VISA, it wasn't for your salary.
The larger the population and the more educated the population, the better the economic strength of the population. Immigration of tech savvy people is one of the best ways to help the citizens.
Money gets its value from the potential of services. The more people, the more services, the more value money has.
And then with these immigrants coming in, it puts further downward pressure on salaries - which is EXACTLY what industry wants.
If you're talking about R&D/Tech jobs, then that's a good thing. Prices go down, more investment goes into creating local jobs, we get a leg up on the rest of the world, our money gains value.
The only down side is our salary goes down, but that's only for people with similar skills. If you paid $100k for an education of the same quality that one could get for $10k somewhere else, then you're getting ripped off. Blame the educational system.