Eventually data use was going to grow to consume whatever network is implemented. What they really meant was that they did not want to be held accountable for imposing limits, that is they did not want to be answering questions like "I've run out of limit, how did that happen ?"
It was laziness on their part and now its coming back to bite them. I'm also prepared to believe (just on blind prejudice) that the iPhone is set up to wantonly consume as much bandwidth as it can get, both by making poor use of spectrum with a radio designed more with an eye to battery life than to RF performance and by having an app-store full of applications that consume great gobs of bandwidth for little benefit.
I have some sympathy for AT&T - why should everyone pay to build out a network to serve a small minority of people with things that they should not expect to get wirelessly, or should be able to get without using so much spectrum. But the problem here, in my opinion, is that they used the word unlimited out of sheer marketing bravado and laziness.
Which goes to show that the distrust goes both ways. Under less embattled circumstances there would be no desire to "manage the message". The problem seems to me to be one where the people with the least to contribute to the debate, actually contribute the most. By that, I mean that the loudest opinions seem to be those that have little actual data to back them up. If we back scientists into a corner they will have to manage the message. We get the science we deserve.
a bombing will occur in a day using exclusively prior knowledge is tremendously useful. For a start it proves that the algorithm works and might be sped up either by optimization or throwing better hardware at it
If someone had a process by which the attack of 9/11 could have been forecast using only information being processed on 9/10 and it produced a report highlighting the attack would happen by 9/18 I think the CIA would be beating a path to their door.
if it makes satellite web browsing better. Setting a web proxy is a great way to cut down DNS chatter on a satellite link, perhaps Google have come up with something that is almost as good.
Books on many subjects can be commonly found in high street bookstores. For example, find books on dhcpd and then go look for a book on Cisco CNR in borders
Much of Linux documentation is in non-traditional form, but that does not make it any less useful. For example the source code
It's hard work reading through pages of vendor provided sales gumpf masqerading as technical reference material. I have seen many statements that were misleading because the vendor has a case to make. By and large Linux documentation is not trying to sell anything
Linux documentation goes further than any vendor would. I can find out lots about the inner workings of linux packet shaping, but asking similar questions of vendors of proprietary products is "stealing their secret sauce"
I generally far prefer the linux documentation that I have read over most proprietary documentation, and I would also say that on the occasions when I've needed a technical question answered, the open source community has been faster to respond than most support contracts I've ever used.
I've never seen one, but I doubt that they are easy to test without actually firing them. If I were an insurance company I would use this market to "invest" non-functional weapons. As a bonus, if the pirates succeed anyway, you get some of your money back.
A geo satellite can see about 1/3 of the earth's surface and so there are satellites that can directly connect Iraq and the USA in a single hop - like Telstar 12 for example. The delay is what it is, but terrestrial networks that cover that distance are not exactly delay free either and a bummer to install in a war zone.
Who paid for the Dutch flood defenses ? the Dutch people or the EEC ? I'm sure a little of both but I'm guessing the majority by the Dutch people. The things I keep thinking about in this debate are...
If the Dutch can take responsibility for a local issue why can't the Louisianians ? After all, if the Army Engineers are telling you that your first city could be washed away, what greater priority could you have in your state budget
I hear the story of the Army Engineers pleading for cash to shore up the defenses, but surely these congressional proffessionals (they are not all guys with shovels) can do more than plead to make their case. At the end of the day, if they were not sufficiently persuasive when they had a compelling story and at least two major elected bodies to make their case to then perhaps they deserve some blame.
Exactly... So if it takes more than 84^6 attempts to crack then the owner of this PC is for sure guilty of something. This system is only looking for guilt by association with strong passwords, it does not need to actually crack the strong password.
If the sheep are suspected terrorists they are not actually dipped, they have a cloth placed over their head and the dip solution is poured over it to make it seem like they are being held under.
Insurance is commonly used to pay mortgage principal balance in the UK. The homeowner pays a premium each month plus the interest and at the end the policy "matures" and pays a guaranteed minimum sum to cover the loan principal plus maybe a little extra if the stock market performed well. It's a bit like buying stock option futures.
The only reason the end of the world in 2012 is not being properly covered by news outlets is because of their well-known liberal bias. They know that 2012 will be an election year and that the GOP has a better end-of-the-world plan.
Why not take two similar school districts, and at one encourage the teachers to make and sell lesson plans for their own profit, and at the other make it plain that any lesson plans are the property of the school and that any documented lesson plans be turned over to the school (so that they can distribute or sell them as they see fit). a few years later, audit the school systems and determine which has the better lesson plans. The system that has yielded the best results for the students should be adopted state-wide.
Perhaps the new fad for principals will be to build and control the best possible portfolio of lesson plan IP.
Sure, it's a neat idea and all, but why should I agree not to implement the same idea in my own way. If I can figure out how to do something in a different way (for example with different code) then I don't see why I should be prevented from doing so. The same goes for the car starter analogy. I don't see why the public benefits from being told how to do these things. If someone had put an electric starter motor on a car and kept the details secret about how he had done it, someone later would have figured it all out without the help of the patent. I just don't see what valuable rights the patent holder is giving up in exchange for the monopoly. The obviousness criteria should be applied to the method of doing something, not to the thing being done IMHO.
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was the featureless black-screen video to 4'33" from John Cage. Results were far better at the lower bitrate. The absolute darkness was less blurry.
Why don't Al qaeda just start passing fake feeds form the drone ? they seem to have a bunch stored up. At least they know which frequency to jam now.
Eventually data use was going to grow to consume whatever network is implemented. What they really meant was that they did not want to be held accountable for imposing limits, that is they did not want to be answering questions like "I've run out of limit, how did that happen ?"
It was laziness on their part and now its coming back to bite them. I'm also prepared to believe (just on blind prejudice) that the iPhone is set up to wantonly consume as much bandwidth as it can get, both by making poor use of spectrum with a radio designed more with an eye to battery life than to RF performance and by having an app-store full of applications that consume great gobs of bandwidth for little benefit.
I have some sympathy for AT&T - why should everyone pay to build out a network to serve a small minority of people with things that they should not expect to get wirelessly, or should be able to get without using so much spectrum. But the problem here, in my opinion, is that they used the word unlimited out of sheer marketing bravado and laziness.
Get one of them a pan balance. learn about mass, density, gravity. Compare quantities of things. I'll bet it gets a fair amount of use.
Which goes to show that the distrust goes both ways. Under less embattled circumstances there would be no desire to "manage the message". The problem seems to me to be one where the people with the least to contribute to the debate, actually contribute the most. By that, I mean that the loudest opinions seem to be those that have little actual data to back them up. If we back scientists into a corner they will have to manage the message. We get the science we deserve.
except you just can't get the purchasing power to deliver the benefits you will need for the income you will get.
That will be a first for me.
If someone had a process by which the attack of 9/11 could have been forecast using only information being processed on 9/10 and it produced a report highlighting the attack would happen by 9/18 I think the CIA would be beating a path to their door.
if it makes satellite web browsing better. Setting a web proxy is a great way to cut down DNS chatter on a satellite link, perhaps Google have come up with something that is almost as good.
I generally far prefer the linux documentation that I have read over most proprietary documentation, and I would also say that on the occasions when I've needed a technical question answered, the open source community has been faster to respond than most support contracts I've ever used.
I've never seen one, but I doubt that they are easy to test without actually firing them. If I were an insurance company I would use this market to "invest" non-functional weapons. As a bonus, if the pirates succeed anyway, you get some of your money back.
A geo satellite can see about 1/3 of the earth's surface and so there are satellites that can directly connect Iraq and the USA in a single hop - like Telstar 12 for example. The delay is what it is, but terrestrial networks that cover that distance are not exactly delay free either and a bummer to install in a war zone.
a game from a vacuum cleaner company to suck ?
Johnny Chung Lee turns one into a fortune telling palm reader.
Who paid for the Dutch flood defenses ? the Dutch people or the EEC ? I'm sure a little of both but I'm guessing the majority by the Dutch people. The things I keep thinking about in this debate are...
I think you can get it to compute anything - if you have enough of them.
Exactly... So if it takes more than 84^6 attempts to crack then the owner of this PC is for sure guilty of something. This system is only looking for guilt by association with strong passwords, it does not need to actually crack the strong password.
he/she should sue for trademark protection purposes.
If the sheep are suspected terrorists they are not actually dipped, they have a cloth placed over their head and the dip solution is poured over it to make it seem like they are being held under.
Insurance is commonly used to pay mortgage principal balance in the UK. The homeowner pays a premium each month plus the interest and at the end the policy "matures" and pays a guaranteed minimum sum to cover the loan principal plus maybe a little extra if the stock market performed well. It's a bit like buying stock option futures.
The only reason the end of the world in 2012 is not being properly covered by news outlets is because of their well-known liberal bias. They know that 2012 will be an election year and that the GOP has a better end-of-the-world plan.
Now we'll all have to be dunked in a vat of this stuff every time I go through TSA security. We get more like sheep every day.
Perhaps the new fad for principals will be to build and control the best possible portfolio of lesson plan IP.
Once cleaned, 1,000-year-old discs would still shimmer the way they do today.
That will be their downfall, the fragments of them will spend the next 1000 years as earrings.
Sure, it's a neat idea and all, but why should I agree not to implement the same idea in my own way. If I can figure out how to do something in a different way (for example with different code) then I don't see why I should be prevented from doing so. The same goes for the car starter analogy. I don't see why the public benefits from being told how to do these things. If someone had put an electric starter motor on a car and kept the details secret about how he had done it, someone later would have figured it all out without the help of the patent. I just don't see what valuable rights the patent holder is giving up in exchange for the monopoly. The obviousness criteria should be applied to the method of doing something, not to the thing being done IMHO.