They postulate that to replace our fossil fuel usage it would take only a total of a little over ten thousand square miles, which could fit in an area like the Sonora Desert.
Wouldn't it make a little more sense to make 10,000 1SqMile pools? Make one and you still have to ship oil all over the world. Make many and keep the production close to the consumption.
...is to inform the students how to install their own software, like Spam Assassin. That would distribute the processing to the people who actually would use it.
Not sure how this is a better option if the Uni's mail servers are going to fall over due to the load.
It is not the technician's place to decide what service level a customer is to be offered - that's a policy issue. The only decision they have to make is are they willing to deliver that service or do they have some objection great enough to cause them to part ways with the company....
Thanks for this. Just yesterday I had final words with a subcontractor. I watched him dick around in a cherry picker for almost an hour looking for the "right" place to mount an aerial. Then he came down and said he wanted to have a custom mount made. His arguement was he wanted to do the best job he could. I had to lay down the law on this - when I have fixed install costs and scheduled delivery times, I can't have a bespoke installation done. There are a dozen variables involved in delivering telecoms service and there are tolerances everywhere. In order to keep a company alive, they need to be taken advantage of to a reasonable extent.
I _race_ furiously to download and get a firewall installed, then do the windows updates. I've had machines be comprimised while downloading the firewall for the first time, damn those subnet scanning kids move fast:)
Considering the price of "Cable/DSL" "Routers" sold by Linksys, D-Link, and others, why would you *not* use one? I can't think of a better way of doing firewall/nat for $50 USD and ten minutes of setup time.
I would imagine they could use it as a temporary transmiter in areas that have lost wireless communications services.
Not just areas that have lost communications, but areas that have sudden spikes in demand, such as concerts or protests. Or the Olympics. Why build out twenty new cell sites to handle an extra few million people for just two weeks?
Google and PayPal are both run by Stanford grad school alumni/students (not undergrad-- no one successful comes out of Stanford undergrad).
Yahoo too: "The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet."
Warning: Bandwidth limited... This won't satisfy most/. readers. The CAN$40 a monthly fee only covers 20 GB down and 5 GB up. Extra GBs cost CAN$10 each.
Idiot. Alarmist too. It's a traffic limit, not a bandwidth limit. And besides, 20GB is well beyond what 90% of users (of broadband connections) use.
I don't do 3D gaming. I don't have a game console and probably never will. I don't know who the hell Infinium Labs are, and I don't care.
I did, however, read the letter.
I don't think the quip by XBox4Evr was fair, and don't think such statements as: "make you wonder if an educated person actually penned the documents" belong on the front page of Slashdot.
I do think that someone has an agenda and Slashdot are helping them push it forward.
Actually it is technology and progress that has given us the ability to selectively kill so effectively, that the last 60 years have been among the most peaceful (statistically) in history.
Somehow you must have missed hearing about Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Congo, Uganda, etc., in the last twenty years. Granted, given the amount of attention the American media gives these places, the fault may not be entirely with you, but still, these places make the Balkans and Caucuses look like tea parties.
Please tell me how you will plow your farm, plant your corn, harvest it, process it and transport it to the ethanol plant, what you'll make your fertilizer from and how you'll get your ethanol to your hydrogen plant all without using any fossil fuels...
Biodiesel is available and in use. I've purchased in several US states and have run my TDI Golf on high blends with no engine tuning and barely perceptable performance hit. It's good stuff, biodiesel, and would be an alternative to oil if only the US government would stop pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year in to subsidizing the oil industry.
We pay grads $35k. Good workers make it up to $50k in two years, mediocre ones go nowhere and shitty ones get fired.
$35k is not a living wage in Boston, New York, or any number of cities in the US, and $60k is not too much for the right person. It all depends on the value that person is bringing to your organization.
When you take off the tinfoil hat, do you have any evidence that it works like this? What great technologies, exactly, have been killed off because people had too much to loose from abondoning less efficient alternatives?
Hopefully anyone who made the mistake of a Blade 1000 will stay far away. Performance from Sun workstations has been sub-par for years now.
I had a good laugh when one of my Intel workstations and a colleague's Blade 1000 were both hooked up to a compute grid. The benchmarks for BLAST, the bioinformatics tool we were running on the grid, showed my PIII running circles around the bioinformatics geek's favorite machine. What's better is that the Intel machine (an IBM), was bought new for less than $1000, and the Blade had been purchased for over $5000!
Remember some of the oddball consoles (some REALLY cool at the time) that just completley FLOPPED.
As this one runs PC games, it's not likely to flop because of lack of software. In fact, I think it's a brilliant idea, especially as it has DVI-out (hook straight into the DLP rear-projection tv or plasma on the wall) and optical digital out.
It's bound to be a "must-have" for those of us who never got in to the whole Console games thing, but wouldn't mind having a PC hooked up to the TV. (think network-enabled media center that plays video games.)
The only thing it's missing now is PVR, but give them a few months.
I guess there's a market for knock-off gucci watches, so why not knock-off Segways? But still, I think it's in very bad taste. I hope they get laughed off the stage.
Looking at the 2003 OECD Telecommunications Outlook, I can see that it's not a simple question of "how much does it cost?". The figures you have take into consideration are:
1. Monthly Charge 2. Mbytes included 3. Extra Mbytes 4. Downstream Bandwidth 5. Upstream Bandwidth
In the good old USA, nobody charges per megabyte. Then you just have price/bandwidth to compare. That goes the same for the following:
Denmark TDC, Finland Elisa, France France Telecom Wanadoo, Germany Deutsche Telecom, Italy Telecom Italia, Japan NTT, Korea Korea Telecom, Luxembourg P&T, Mexico Telmex, Netherlands KPN Spain Telefonica, Sweden Telia, Turkey Turk Telekom, United Kingdom British Telecom, United States Verizon
Those who have traffic caps and "per megabyte" charges for overage are:
Australia Telstra - Big Pond, Austria Telekom Austria, Belgium Belgacom - Turbo Line, Canada Bell Canada Sympatico, Ireland Eircom, Netherlands KPN, New Zealand Telecom NZ, Switzerland Swisscom, Portugal Portugal Telecom
If you want to compare across the board, you have to make some arbitrary decisions, like "how much traffic does the average user consume" and "what is the minimum downstream and upstream bandwidth requirement". Repeat, ARBITRARY. Many researchers with "an agenda" manipulate these figures to make their country/telecoms provider look good or bad. It's easy to do.
I'll say 2GB/month, and 384/128. YMMV. Now you can say "this is what it will cost".
So, the following is what I come up with using the OECD data, which was collected in 2002:
Canada Bell Canada Sympatico 22.28 Korea Korea Telecom 27.58 Portugal Portugal Telecom 37.16 Belgium Belgacom - Turbo Line 38.67 Sweden Telia 39.65 United States Verizon 39.95 Japan NTT 40.76 United Kingdom British Telecom 41.51 Germany Deutsche Telecom 44 France France Telecom Wanadoo 44.42 Italy Telecom Italia 48.85 Netherlands KPN 51.1 Switzerland Swisscom 52.78 Denmark TDC 57.28 Norway Telenor 59.22 Finland Elisa 60.64 Portugal Portugal Telecom 66.5 Poland TPSA 71.58 Mexico Telmex 92.72 Spain Telefonica 95.22 Ireland Eircom 105.32 Australia Telstra - Big Pond 121.67 New Zealand Telecom NZ 131.27 Hungary Matav 248.64 Iceland Iceland Telecom 280 Turkey Turk Telekom 285.98
Apologies that the lameness filters have prevented me from presenting these figures in a more readable way.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not paying them to mess with my connection to their own advantage. If they started doing this I'd be on my way to another provider in a heartbeat.
Really? Well, go read Norton's "The Art of Peering - The Peering Playbook" to see how providers mess with your connection to their advantage on a pretty regular basis.
Good luck finding a provider that doesn't either a.) play this game themselves or b.) purchase wholesale bandwidth from an upstream who plays
I did feel kind of silly about my post after I read the entire article. :~)
Back in March there was a bit of discussion on the wireless-longhaul list regarding setup in Nepal.
0 4-March.txt.gz
http://openict.net/pipermail/wireless-longhaul/
The list-archive front end seems to eat much of the text, but it's all there in the gzipped archive:
http://openict.net/pipermail/wireless-longhaul/20
They postulate that to replace our fossil fuel usage it would take only a total of a little over ten thousand square miles, which could fit in an area like the Sonora Desert.
Wouldn't it make a little more sense to make 10,000 1SqMile pools? Make one and you still have to ship oil all over the world. Make many and keep the production close to the consumption.
...is to inform the students how to install their own software, like Spam Assassin. That would distribute the processing to the people who actually would use it.
Not sure how this is a better option if the Uni's mail servers are going to fall over due to the load.
It is not the technician's place to decide what service level a customer is to be offered - that's a policy issue. The only decision they have to make is are they willing to deliver that service or do they have some objection great enough to cause them to part ways with the company....
Thanks for this. Just yesterday I had final words with a subcontractor. I watched him dick around in a cherry picker for almost an hour looking for the "right" place to mount an aerial. Then he came down and said he wanted to have a custom mount made. His arguement was he wanted to do the best job he could. I had to lay down the law on this - when I have fixed install costs and scheduled delivery times, I can't have a bespoke installation done. There are a dozen variables involved in delivering telecoms service and there are tolerances everywhere. In order to keep a company alive, they need to be taken advantage of to a reasonable extent.
What interface are they using? Even the fastest SCSI can't provide 3GB/s!
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FC-AL, aka Fibre Channel:
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/technology/
I _race_ furiously to download and get a firewall installed, then do the windows updates. I've had machines be comprimised while downloading the firewall for the first time, damn those subnet scanning kids move fast :)
Considering the price of "Cable/DSL" "Routers" sold by Linksys, D-Link, and others, why would you *not* use one? I can't think of a better way of doing firewall/nat for $50 USD and ten minutes of setup time.
If they are this big, won't any idiot with a gun be able to shoot them down ? Kinds of defeats the purpose if they are meant for surveillance
Not being a gun nut, could someone fill me in on what you'd need to shoot down a blimp at 65,000 feet?
I would imagine they could use it as a temporary transmiter in areas that have lost wireless communications services.
Not just areas that have lost communications, but areas that have sudden spikes in demand, such as concerts or protests. Or the Olympics. Why build out twenty new cell sites to handle an extra few million people for just two weeks?
Google and PayPal are both run by Stanford grad school alumni/students (not undergrad-- no one successful comes out of Stanford undergrad).
Yahoo too: "The two founders of Yahoo!, David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, started their guide in a campus trailer in February 1994 as a way to keep track of their personal interests on the Internet."
(from http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html)
Warning: Bandwidth limited... This won't satisfy most /. readers. The CAN$40 a monthly fee only covers 20 GB down and 5 GB up. Extra GBs cost CAN$10 each.
Idiot. Alarmist too. It's a traffic limit, not a bandwidth limit. And besides, 20GB is well beyond what 90% of users (of broadband connections) use.
I don't do 3D gaming. I don't have a game console and probably never will. I don't know who the hell Infinium Labs are, and I don't care.
I did, however, read the letter.
I don't think the quip by XBox4Evr was fair, and don't think such statements as: "make you wonder if an educated person actually penned the documents" belong on the front page of Slashdot.
I do think that someone has an agenda and Slashdot are helping them push it forward.
That sucks.
He'srightitworksfortexttoo!!!LookatthebandwidthIsa ved!
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I've actually seen this, though more like this:
HESrightITworksFORtextTOOlookATtheBANDWIDTHiSAV
People use this to get more into 160 char SMS messages.
Actually it is technology and progress that has given us the ability to selectively kill so effectively, that the last 60 years have been among the most peaceful (statistically) in history.
Somehow you must have missed hearing about Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Congo, Uganda, etc., in the last twenty years. Granted, given the amount of attention the American media gives these places, the fault may not be entirely with you, but still, these places make the Balkans and Caucuses look like tea parties.
Please tell me how you will plow your farm, plant your corn, harvest it, process it and transport it to the ethanol plant, what you'll make your fertilizer from and how you'll get your ethanol to your hydrogen plant all without using any fossil fuels...
Biodiesel is available and in use. I've purchased in several US states and have run my TDI Golf on high blends with no engine tuning and barely perceptable performance hit. It's good stuff, biodiesel, and would be an alternative to oil if only the US government would stop pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year in to subsidizing the oil industry.
No college grad is worth $60k. Period.
We pay grads $35k. Good workers make it up to $50k in two years, mediocre ones go nowhere and shitty ones get fired.
$35k is not a living wage in Boston, New York, or any number of cities in the US, and $60k is not too much for the right person. It all depends on the value that person is bringing to your organization.
When you take off the tinfoil hat, do you have any evidence that it works like this? What great technologies, exactly, have been killed off because people had too much to loose from abondoning less efficient alternatives?
I think something along the lines of GM buying up tram and light rail operators in the 1930s and 1940s, and systematically shutting them down.
Hopefully anyone who made the mistake of a Blade 1000 will stay far away. Performance from Sun workstations has been sub-par for years now.
I had a good laugh when one of my Intel workstations and a colleague's Blade 1000 were both hooked up to a compute grid. The benchmarks for BLAST, the bioinformatics tool we were running on the grid, showed my PIII running circles around the bioinformatics geek's favorite machine. What's better is that the Intel machine (an IBM), was bought new for less than $1000, and the Blade had been purchased for over $5000!
the US market probably has more cell phones in the top 20-40 markets then Canada has people period.
I'd venture to say California has more cell phones than Canada has people.
Alright. So... um... who maintains New Zealand's defense?
Maybe they have an agreement with Canada?
Remember some of the oddball consoles (some REALLY cool at the time) that just completley FLOPPED.
As this one runs PC games, it's not likely to flop because of lack of software. In fact, I think it's a brilliant idea, especially as it has DVI-out (hook straight into the DLP rear-projection tv or plasma on the wall) and optical digital out.
It's bound to be a "must-have" for those of us who never got in to the whole Console games thing, but wouldn't mind having a PC hooked up to the TV. (think network-enabled media center that plays video games.)
The only thing it's missing now is PVR, but give them a few months.
"We said, we can do this, but the gyroscope technology--we didn't think people could afford it."
Rad2Go : Segway = I-Cybie : Abio
I guess there's a market for knock-off gucci watches, so why not knock-off Segways? But still, I think it's in very bad taste. I hope they get laughed off the stage.
Looking at the 2003 OECD Telecommunications Outlook, I can see that it's not a simple question of "how much does it cost?". The figures you have take into consideration are:
1. Monthly Charge
2. Mbytes included
3. Extra Mbytes
4. Downstream Bandwidth
5. Upstream Bandwidth
In the good old USA, nobody charges per megabyte. Then you just have price/bandwidth to compare. That goes the same for the following:
Denmark TDC, Finland Elisa, France France Telecom Wanadoo, Germany Deutsche Telecom, Italy Telecom Italia, Japan NTT, Korea Korea Telecom, Luxembourg P&T, Mexico Telmex, Netherlands KPN
Spain Telefonica, Sweden Telia, Turkey Turk Telekom, United Kingdom British Telecom, United States Verizon
Those who have traffic caps and "per megabyte" charges for overage are:
Australia Telstra - Big Pond, Austria Telekom Austria, Belgium Belgacom - Turbo Line,
Canada Bell Canada Sympatico, Ireland Eircom, Netherlands KPN, New Zealand Telecom NZ, Switzerland Swisscom, Portugal Portugal Telecom
If you want to compare across the board, you have to make some arbitrary decisions, like "how much traffic does the average user consume" and "what is the minimum downstream and upstream bandwidth requirement". Repeat, ARBITRARY. Many researchers with "an agenda" manipulate these figures to make their country/telecoms provider look good or bad. It's easy to do.
I'll say 2GB/month, and 384/128. YMMV. Now you can say "this is what it will cost".
So, the following is what I come up with using the OECD data, which was collected in 2002:
Canada Bell Canada Sympatico 22.28
Korea Korea Telecom 27.58
Portugal Portugal Telecom 37.16
Belgium Belgacom - Turbo Line 38.67
Sweden Telia 39.65
United States Verizon 39.95
Japan NTT 40.76
United Kingdom British Telecom 41.51
Germany Deutsche Telecom 44
France France Telecom Wanadoo 44.42
Italy Telecom Italia 48.85
Netherlands KPN 51.1
Switzerland Swisscom 52.78
Denmark TDC 57.28
Norway Telenor 59.22
Finland Elisa 60.64
Portugal Portugal Telecom 66.5
Poland TPSA 71.58
Mexico Telmex 92.72
Spain Telefonica 95.22
Ireland Eircom 105.32
Australia Telstra - Big Pond 121.67
New Zealand Telecom NZ 131.27
Hungary Matav 248.64
Iceland Iceland Telecom 280
Turkey Turk Telekom 285.98
Apologies that the lameness filters have prevented me from presenting these figures in a more readable way.
# 2004 $15.469 billion, $469 million increase (proposed)
Yeah, that $469 million should just about cover the extra cost for parts due to the weak American dollar.
Thanks, Bush!