Which is exactly what the parent said. Besides, look at it this way. You're using cars as an overlay grid. The Kinect is using a dot patter projected in infrared. What's the difference? Or, if you were to go to an empty grassy field, how would you distance estimates do?
Well, I'd assume that once they can charge ISPs for usage, they'd be more interested in moving more packets. They seem to have turned off the DPI machines lately, for example.
Well, a) Bell still has to backhaul to the demarc with any given ISP, and b) DSLAMs are fininte resources. If they have to upgrade because ISP Alpha is offering super duper highspeed unlimited, it's only fair the ISPs pay their fair share. Besides, ISTR the ISPs begging for metered billing, rather than Bell doing wholesale (pardon the pun) traffic throttling and deep packet inspection.
Oh, and self reply, RTS/CTS doesn't quite make it compared to a proper polling system or TDMA. You also can't do any sort of base station syncronization with an 802.11 style setup.
Collision Avoidance, in this case, means they listen for open air. Collision Detection means they talk, and back off if there's a problem. This also makes it difficult to do QoS at the radio level.
One of the main problems with 802.11 for wide-area use is that it's a version of csma; a radio will listen for an open spot, then transmit when thinks it's quiet. Now, locally, that's usually fine. But for wide-area issues, consider this: base station A sees radios B and C. Radio B doesn't hear radio C; they're twelve miles apart, on opposite sides of the base station. Therefore, radio B and C talk over one another.
You need some sort of polling mechanism where the client radios only talk when the base indicates they're allowed to.
For building a telegraph (or any electronic communications medium), the challenge lies in the miles of wire that are needed. The scale of manufacturing for this task is huge and is a long project -- not something you'd set out to do in the wilderness with your stone axe.
No, nomadic hunter/gatherers wouldn't have bothered. But Egypt could have. Rome could have. Mayans could have. Chinese could have. Any of the ancient empires could have done this, easily. Imagine a Roman Empire where all telegraph lines lead to Rome....
He built a little clay firepit, and smelted small amounts of iron and copper out of rocks he found. Malachite and something else. Then he built himself, with some cattail tubers, a potato battery. He was able to produce a volt of electricity with this; by inference, he could scale that up to whatever was needed.
Another comment said something about 'it's the miles and miles of wiring that would be needed.' I have no doubts that any ancient empire; Roman, Egyptian, Mayan, Chinese, whatever, would have trouble doing that if they wanted. Sure, nomadic cavemen probably wouldn't have bothered, but can you imagine a Roman Empire where all telegraph lines lead to Rome?
A well maintained server can have 99.99%-99.999% uptime.
And I do believe that the DNS Root Server meets that, if not betters it. You'll notice that while the one node was down, the other 12 were up and running. The DNS root system is, when you get right down to it, a 13-node HA cluster. The system stayed up and serviceable, even though one specific node was down. Functioned as designed.
What's wrong with Audible? I've been using them since '99, and have always been satisfied. Still have my 64 meg Diamond Rio that I got for signing up with them somewhere....
Also, *angry*You are a fucking moron!!!!, *sigh*You are a fucking moron and *laughing* You are a fucking moron all convey drastically different ideas.
That said, listening to, say, a Sci-Fi book being read by Stephen Rudnicki, who is awesome, but occassionaly reads 'delta-V' as 'delta-5' and 'regen' (short for regeneration) as 'reagen' (former president) is just funny.
Not to mention file size; what sort of disc are you going to ship say, Fallout 3 on, where there's one mighty texture fo the entire landscape?
I thought for sure we'd be into procedural textures for everything by this point; if you have a granite rock, run your granite rock procedure on it and you get a unique granite rock. Use a seed value for each thing in the world so that any given object always looks the same, and Bob's your uncle.
I think the idea is one person says 'dogs are smarter, as you can train them to pull a sled through snow.' To which the other replies 'cats are smarter, as they'll refuse to pull a sled through snow.'
The Fermi Paradox is an interesting thought experiment, nothing more. According to the Fermi Paradox logic, bacteria simply didn't exist until somebody was able to build a microscope. Why haven't we heard them yet? Maybe we don't know how to listen.
Each of the Origins had their own motivations for doing what they did. My human noble warrior was avenging the slaying of her family. She joined the Wardens as a means of getting power to further that goal. Quite honestly, the whole time I was playing that character, the Darkspawn were more of an annoying irritant on her path to that end. When it came time to deal with Loghain, there was no question; he died.
My city elf mage, on the other hand, started out as an idealistic young mage at the Tower, but quickly became disillusioned and bitter. He was out to basically throw his elfyness, and mageiness, into the faces of people. And defeating the Darkspawn was a great way to do that. 'Sure, it's a horrible evil out of legend, but you know what? Hey, a little elf, and a mage no less, made that evil be my bitch. Screw you all, humans.'
Can you explain to me how using these security features would help him get his laptop back?
Having set a power on password, the thief will either a) google which jumper to short to clear it out, or b) throw the laptop away, upon realizing it's useless to him.
A friend of mine is on his twentieth xbox. All RROD. Of course, he plays it a hell of a lot more than I do, but still... that's getting ridiculous.
...maybe it's something he's doing? "This piece of shit console. Every time one dies, I get a new one, open the glass door on my stereo cabinet, put it on top of my amp, you know, right over the ventiliation slits, close the glass door, and start playing. And every time, the goddamn thing overheats and dies eventually!"
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Too fucking bad. Being in demand doesn't magically remove one's requirements for sleep.
Lots of other professions, such as, say, airline pilots, have rest requirements. This isn't new and uncharted territory.
Why do pilots, who's only real job nowadays is to make sure the autopilot is turned on, have mandatory crew rest requirements, but doctors do not?
Which is exactly what the parent said. Besides, look at it this way. You're using cars as an overlay grid. The Kinect is using a dot patter projected in infrared. What's the difference? Or, if you were to go to an empty grassy field, how would you distance estimates do?
What you wanted was an Aureal A3D 2 card. Unfortunately, Creative Labs bought them, and buried them.
Well, I'd assume that once they can charge ISPs for usage, they'd be more interested in moving more packets. They seem to have turned off the DPI machines lately, for example.
Well, a) Bell still has to backhaul to the demarc with any given ISP, and b) DSLAMs are fininte resources. If they have to upgrade because ISP Alpha is offering super duper highspeed unlimited, it's only fair the ISPs pay their fair share. Besides, ISTR the ISPs begging for metered billing, rather than Bell doing wholesale (pardon the pun) traffic throttling and deep packet inspection.
Three people in a neighbourhood all get 900 mhz baby monitors. Person A can hear person B's transmitter. Not by intent. That's accidental.
Oh, and self reply, RTS/CTS doesn't quite make it compared to a proper polling system or TDMA. You also can't do any sort of base station syncronization with an 802.11 style setup.
Collision Avoidance, in this case, means they listen for open air. Collision Detection means they talk, and back off if there's a problem. This also makes it difficult to do QoS at the radio level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_node_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_with_collision_avoidance
One of the main problems with 802.11 for wide-area use is that it's a version of csma; a radio will listen for an open spot, then transmit when thinks it's quiet. Now, locally, that's usually fine. But for wide-area issues, consider this: base station A sees radios B and C. Radio B doesn't hear radio C; they're twelve miles apart, on opposite sides of the base station. Therefore, radio B and C talk over one another.
You need some sort of polling mechanism where the client radios only talk when the base indicates they're allowed to.
For building a telegraph (or any electronic communications medium), the challenge lies in the miles of wire that are needed. The scale of manufacturing for this task is huge and is a long project -- not something you'd set out to do in the wilderness with your stone axe.
No, nomadic hunter/gatherers wouldn't have bothered. But Egypt could have. Rome could have. Mayans could have. Chinese could have. Any of the ancient empires could have done this, easily. Imagine a Roman Empire where all telegraph lines lead to Rome....
He built a little clay firepit, and smelted small amounts of iron and copper out of rocks he found. Malachite and something else. Then he built himself, with some cattail tubers, a potato battery. He was able to produce a volt of electricity with this; by inference, he could scale that up to whatever was needed.
Another comment said something about 'it's the miles and miles of wiring that would be needed.' I have no doubts that any ancient empire; Roman, Egyptian, Mayan, Chinese, whatever, would have trouble doing that if they wanted. Sure, nomadic cavemen probably wouldn't have bothered, but can you imagine a Roman Empire where all telegraph lines lead to Rome?
And I do believe that the DNS Root Server meets that, if not betters it. You'll notice that while the one node was down, the other 12 were up and running. The DNS root system is, when you get right down to it, a 13-node HA cluster. The system stayed up and serviceable, even though one specific node was down. Functioned as designed.
Well, only inasmuch as C is an abstraction layer for Assembly.
What's wrong with Audible? I've been using them since '99, and have always been satisfied. Still have my 64 meg Diamond Rio that I got for signing up with them somewhere....
Also, *angry*You are a fucking moron!!!!, *sigh*You are a fucking moron and *laughing* You are a fucking moron all convey drastically different ideas.
That said, listening to, say, a Sci-Fi book being read by Stephen Rudnicki, who is awesome, but occassionaly reads 'delta-V' as 'delta-5' and 'regen' (short for regeneration) as 'reagen' (former president) is just funny.
Not to mention file size; what sort of disc are you going to ship say, Fallout 3 on, where there's one mighty texture fo the entire landscape?
I thought for sure we'd be into procedural textures for everything by this point; if you have a granite rock, run your granite rock procedure on it and you get a unique granite rock. Use a seed value for each thing in the world so that any given object always looks the same, and Bob's your uncle.
It's the famous Nanosecond Buyout!
I think the idea is one person says 'dogs are smarter, as you can train them to pull a sled through snow.' To which the other replies 'cats are smarter, as they'll refuse to pull a sled through snow.'
The Fermi Paradox is an interesting thought experiment, nothing more. According to the Fermi Paradox logic, bacteria simply didn't exist until somebody was able to build a microscope. Why haven't we heard them yet? Maybe we don't know how to listen.
I thought much the same thing, but with the 'trollface' mask.
Each of the Origins had their own motivations for doing what they did. My human noble warrior was avenging the slaying of her family. She joined the Wardens as a means of getting power to further that goal. Quite honestly, the whole time I was playing that character, the Darkspawn were more of an annoying irritant on her path to that end. When it came time to deal with Loghain, there was no question; he died.
My city elf mage, on the other hand, started out as an idealistic young mage at the Tower, but quickly became disillusioned and bitter. He was out to basically throw his elfyness, and mageiness, into the faces of people. And defeating the Darkspawn was a great way to do that. 'Sure, it's a horrible evil out of legend, but you know what? Hey, a little elf, and a mage no less, made that evil be my bitch. Screw you all, humans.'
Can you explain to me how using these security features would help him get his laptop back? Having set a power on password, the thief will either a) google which jumper to short to clear it out, or b) throw the laptop away, upon realizing it's useless to him.