I also have Cisco boxes, but my first two boxes are free and only $5/box after. Basic TV service starts at $15. Our TV guide interface is quite nice. Even get a bunch of free on-demand that comes with that $15 service. Mostly children's stuff, but includes recent movies in 1080p.
I can already change channels in less than 1/2 a second with my IPTV fiber service. What benefit do I gain for all of this expensive stuff, allowing me to change channels 2x faster? Ohh wait, we only use the guide anyway, so changing channels up and down is moot. This has got to be one of the most useless hypothetical discussions in a long time.
Even more interesting is back during the dispute, Comcast stated they already paid for and setup all of the peering hardware, but refused to turn it on for over a year. They're willing to pay for the upgrades, but refuse to use them in order to hold their customers hostage.
Funny thing about new tech. It's only new when it's first being used. Since we're talking about long term goals, we won't be using expensive new tech, but eventually cheaper tried-and-true tech.
If you have a system in which you cannot create a new key, then it doesn't matter if the method or the key get compromised, the end result is the same.
You don't need caching servers for Netflix and YouTube, transit bandwidth is already amazingly cheap. My ISP refuses to get any service specific CDN because it runs against their ideals of net neutrality to favor one company over another. All residential(technically they only sell business lines, but they cover all residential in the city and surrounding rural, including some way out farms) lines are dedicated fiber(one unshared fiber line all the way back to the CO) with dedicated bandwidth, with prices starting at $20/m for 20/20, $35 for 70/70 and $45 for 100/100, and all the way up to 1Gb. No bundling required, no hidden fees, no installation cost, you actually pay advertised price plus sales tax, that's all. $10/m for a/29 static block.
They have one transit provider(3 separate trunks to them), no peering, no service specific CDNs(must be a 3rd party CDN that sells CDN services), and they use Level 3. They guarantee that I will never have congestion on their network or over their trunk. I was told they keep their trunk's 95th percentile below 30% and can triple with trunk's bandwidth with a quick call to Level 3. I have better ping, jitter, and loss values than any of my friends who work in datacenters with dedicated 10Gb+ links. My one friend was blown away that my ping to Hawaii was nearly 1/2 his datacenter's, and he uses AT&T 10Gb fiber and is closer to Chicago than I am.
6ms to Chicago, 30ms to New York, 40ms to Dallas, 60ms to LA, 90ms to London, heck, 140ms to Japan. 130ms and 6 hops to AWS Germany with less than 1ms of jitter for month long samples, and below 0.001% loss. My avg and min ping are within 0.1ms of each other to nearly every major datacenter in the mainland USA. Speaking of hops. Flat network topology. I'm 1 hop from Chicago. ONT->Fiber Aggregator(layer 2 chassis)->Core Router->Level 3 Chicago(300 miles and 6ms away)
My biggest gripe is I can get 1Gb/s micro-bursts from YouTube in Europe. Really. I swear, Level 3 has zero congestion. It messes with my connection if I don't use traffic shaping and can cause milliseonds of latency and loss if I keep clicking randomly around the YouTube 4k 60FPS video timeline, which has 1-2 seconds of buffering before it plays. I can't forget their anti-bufferbloat AQMs. Even with my connection maxed in both directions and no traffic shaping on my part, my ping will never go over 30ms. Even Counter-Strike shows no in-game issues other than a few 10s of ms of jitter.
In their terms of service they actually state they honor net neutrality and will not QoS, shape, or block or otherwise favor any traffic over any other traffic. My ONT is actually uncapped, but they do all of their provision shaping in their core router. They do use an AQM, but I don't really count that as QoS in the normal sense.
All of this from an ISP in a small city, and they actively refuse government subsidies, loans, and grants and is privately owned and over 100 years old. They started off as a telegraph company.
The average lifespan of long haul fiber is 10-15 year maybe. Last mile fiber is not nearly as competitive to making use of the latest-greatest tech. Average deprecation lifespan is 20-25 years and average functioning is 80 years. New advancements in optics is making old fiber still relevant. One story was talking about 40 year old long-haul fiber with amps that was rated of a max of 1Gb originally meant for 100Mb, later got upgraded to 400Gb without changing anything in between.
Last-mile fiber has no repeaters or amps, so even better luck with just upgrading the end-points. They're already moving 80Gb/s with 10 year old last-mile fiber and even starting to test 1Tb/s+. If the main reason to replace fiber in the last mile is deprecation, it may be 80 years before we see it getting replaced.
If I remember correctly, asteroids on average have several times the rare-Earth mineral concentration as Earth. Even the Moon has much higher concentrations than Earth. I'm not sure how large, but even a "small" asteroid can be worth trillions of dollars. Even one trillion dollars of rare Earth minerals is a lot of something, no matter what it is.
10Gb switches isn't much for ISPs. My ISP plugs us into a multi-terabit switch that hooks up to a core router with all 100Gb ports. No 10Gb here, all terabit or aggregate 100Gb.
And a blackhole takes an infinite amount of time to form. Why are you complaining about what blackholes can or cannot do if you don't believe they exist?
Yes, but it's how much weaker. For a brief moment, those two blackholes released more energy that the rest of the entire observable Universe, that includes all of those quasars. Even gamma ray bursts only outshine their local galaxy.
Money invested into a specific scientific discipline has greatly diminishing returns. Couple that with no one knowing which scientific discipline or combinations of will cause the next breakthrough, and spreading our money around is the best investment. Many domains already have huge amounts of private funding, little point in the government throwing money at better optics for microscopes.
Since delta-v scales with the log of the mass of fuel and linearly with the exhaust velocity, it doesn't take much to beat chemical thrust. Very low thrust, but very high delta-v.
AMD didn't come up with x86-64, a specific person that AMD hired came up with it. And immediately after that person left, AMD created the netburst version of their CPUs. I was reading that with the new AMD Zen, AMD pretty much left everything up to the engineers and had them start over with a clean slate. Only time will tell, but from what I'm reading, it will likely pay off in spades.
Hydro-electric dams cause more greenhouse warming than coal (methane caused by stagnate water and anaerobic metabolizing of dead plant materials under water), but there's plenty of other toxins coal emits.
A breakthrough in internal combustion engines poses to make Otto cycle gasoline engines 40%-50% efficient in cars. This was recently done by F1 racers and does not require high compression.
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I also have Cisco boxes, but my first two boxes are free and only $5/box after. Basic TV service starts at $15. Our TV guide interface is quite nice. Even get a bunch of free on-demand that comes with that $15 service. Mostly children's stuff, but includes recent movies in 1080p.
I can already change channels in less than 1/2 a second with my IPTV fiber service. What benefit do I gain for all of this expensive stuff, allowing me to change channels 2x faster? Ohh wait, we only use the guide anyway, so changing channels up and down is moot. This has got to be one of the most useless hypothetical discussions in a long time.
Experience is overrated. I'll take wisdom over knowledge any day.
Except in this case, the roads are virtually free and the toll booths costs more.
Even more interesting is back during the dispute, Comcast stated they already paid for and setup all of the peering hardware, but refused to turn it on for over a year. They're willing to pay for the upgrades, but refuse to use them in order to hold their customers hostage.
the new ones involve lots of new tech
Funny thing about new tech. It's only new when it's first being used. Since we're talking about long term goals, we won't be using expensive new tech, but eventually cheaper tried-and-true tech.
If you have a system in which you cannot create a new key, then it doesn't matter if the method or the key get compromised, the end result is the same.
You don't need caching servers for Netflix and YouTube, transit bandwidth is already amazingly cheap. My ISP refuses to get any service specific CDN because it runs against their ideals of net neutrality to favor one company over another. All residential(technically they only sell business lines, but they cover all residential in the city and surrounding rural, including some way out farms) lines are dedicated fiber(one unshared fiber line all the way back to the CO) with dedicated bandwidth, with prices starting at $20/m for 20/20, $35 for 70/70 and $45 for 100/100, and all the way up to 1Gb. No bundling required, no hidden fees, no installation cost, you actually pay advertised price plus sales tax, that's all. $10/m for a /29 static block.
They have one transit provider(3 separate trunks to them), no peering, no service specific CDNs(must be a 3rd party CDN that sells CDN services), and they use Level 3. They guarantee that I will never have congestion on their network or over their trunk. I was told they keep their trunk's 95th percentile below 30% and can triple with trunk's bandwidth with a quick call to Level 3. I have better ping, jitter, and loss values than any of my friends who work in datacenters with dedicated 10Gb+ links. My one friend was blown away that my ping to Hawaii was nearly 1/2 his datacenter's, and he uses AT&T 10Gb fiber and is closer to Chicago than I am.
6ms to Chicago, 30ms to New York, 40ms to Dallas, 60ms to LA, 90ms to London, heck, 140ms to Japan. 130ms and 6 hops to AWS Germany with less than 1ms of jitter for month long samples, and below 0.001% loss. My avg and min ping are within 0.1ms of each other to nearly every major datacenter in the mainland USA. Speaking of hops. Flat network topology. I'm 1 hop from Chicago. ONT->Fiber Aggregator(layer 2 chassis)->Core Router->Level 3 Chicago(300 miles and 6ms away)
My biggest gripe is I can get 1Gb/s micro-bursts from YouTube in Europe. Really. I swear, Level 3 has zero congestion. It messes with my connection if I don't use traffic shaping and can cause milliseonds of latency and loss if I keep clicking randomly around the YouTube 4k 60FPS video timeline, which has 1-2 seconds of buffering before it plays. I can't forget their anti-bufferbloat AQMs. Even with my connection maxed in both directions and no traffic shaping on my part, my ping will never go over 30ms. Even Counter-Strike shows no in-game issues other than a few 10s of ms of jitter.
In their terms of service they actually state they honor net neutrality and will not QoS, shape, or block or otherwise favor any traffic over any other traffic. My ONT is actually uncapped, but they do all of their provision shaping in their core router. They do use an AQM, but I don't really count that as QoS in the normal sense.
All of this from an ISP in a small city, and they actively refuse government subsidies, loans, and grants and is privately owned and over 100 years old. They started off as a telegraph company.
The average lifespan of long haul fiber is 10-15 year maybe. Last mile fiber is not nearly as competitive to making use of the latest-greatest tech. Average deprecation lifespan is 20-25 years and average functioning is 80 years. New advancements in optics is making old fiber still relevant. One story was talking about 40 year old long-haul fiber with amps that was rated of a max of 1Gb originally meant for 100Mb, later got upgraded to 400Gb without changing anything in between.
Last-mile fiber has no repeaters or amps, so even better luck with just upgrading the end-points. They're already moving 80Gb/s with 10 year old last-mile fiber and even starting to test 1Tb/s+. If the main reason to replace fiber in the last mile is deprecation, it may be 80 years before we see it getting replaced.
If I remember correctly, asteroids on average have several times the rare-Earth mineral concentration as Earth. Even the Moon has much higher concentrations than Earth. I'm not sure how large, but even a "small" asteroid can be worth trillions of dollars. Even one trillion dollars of rare Earth minerals is a lot of something, no matter what it is.
10Gb switches isn't much for ISPs. My ISP plugs us into a multi-terabit switch that hooks up to a core router with all 100Gb ports. No 10Gb here, all terabit or aggregate 100Gb.
And a blackhole takes an infinite amount of time to form. Why are you complaining about what blackholes can or cannot do if you don't believe they exist?
Yes, but it's how much weaker. For a brief moment, those two blackholes released more energy that the rest of the entire observable Universe, that includes all of those quasars. Even gamma ray bursts only outshine their local galaxy.
Money invested into a specific scientific discipline has greatly diminishing returns. Couple that with no one knowing which scientific discipline or combinations of will cause the next breakthrough, and spreading our money around is the best investment. Many domains already have huge amounts of private funding, little point in the government throwing money at better optics for microscopes.
Since delta-v scales with the log of the mass of fuel and linearly with the exhaust velocity, it doesn't take much to beat chemical thrust. Very low thrust, but very high delta-v.
Got you beat. I saw "Gluten-free low-sodium table salt" at the store.
All they have to do is mention that you did this in bad faith and the jury will convict.
I foresee voice phone calls replacing text messages in the next 5 years.
AMD didn't come up with x86-64, a specific person that AMD hired came up with it. And immediately after that person left, AMD created the netburst version of their CPUs. I was reading that with the new AMD Zen, AMD pretty much left everything up to the engineers and had them start over with a clean slate. Only time will tell, but from what I'm reading, it will likely pay off in spades.
Or just use one of the several AQMs that can evenly distribute bandwidth while keeping latency, loss, and jitter to almost 0.
Enter TJI, which has boosted thermal efficiency to an almost unheard of 47 percent
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Hydro-electric dams cause more greenhouse warming than coal (methane caused by stagnate water and anaerobic metabolizing of dead plant materials under water), but there's plenty of other toxins coal emits.
All copyrighted content is built on the backs of stolen culture. Human rights > right to profit. At least one would hope.
A breakthrough in internal combustion engines poses to make Otto cycle gasoline engines 40%-50% efficient in cars. This was recently done by F1 racers and does not require high compression.
Nah, the new thing is a "zero rating" for Ford.