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The major problem, is the young generation of today don't look at the long term problems of the working environment. Companies have to give back to the society they take resources from.
We (The people) build schools and infrastructure so companies can flourish, not so companies can pillage.
You've obviously never read this book. Gatto has quite a bit to say on the purpose of modern compulsory schooling. According to him, the type of schooling we have in the States exists to make docile laborers out of individuals, exactly for companies to pillage.
TCP/IP sucks for satellite links. The need for ACK packets means that each packet takes 550 milliseconds to arrive. UDP would be a better protocol for satellite links, but would the applications be able to handle UDP? Satellites are better suited to broadcasting, not two-way internet.
uhmmm.... no. Have you heard of TCP's 'sliding window'? TCP doesn't just send one packet and wait for its response before sending another, etc.... after your connection is established, if packets are not dropped, more and more packets are sent at once before their ACKs are received. There can be up to n packets 'in the network' at once, where n is the dynamically determined window size.
Will you still have huge latency? Of course. But UDP will fare little better than TCP, and your bandwidth may still be appropriate for those ISOs.
I onced did a traceroute to www.ucla.edu from a computer lab on campus during the middle of the day during the middle of the week and got amazing results. I found that there was only 8 hops between that desktop and the webserver that was in CA somewhere and all ping responses were less than 10ms. Talk about insane.
Hmm...I2 is now...faster than light! Tear down the front page!
10 ms from VA to CA is about 3000 miles in 10 ms. That's information traveling round-trip (6000 miles!) in 10 ms, or 600000 miles/second.
Approximately 3.5 times the speed of light. Now that's impressive.
I'm not 100% sure what the argument for releasing this sterilized fly is. Clearly it can't be "of course this is a good idea, look at all the benefits!" Let's analyze. No more fly, no more disease, lots of african farmers now live in a life of splendor with fresh water and lots of new farmland. Meanwhile, the space they've made for themselves by burning acre after acre of thick oxygen-producing and CO2-reducing plant life has been destroyed, and global warming (if the phenomenon indeed exists) increases. 50 years down the road, as more and more of the diseases that threaten humans are eradicated. More and more rainforest is converted into farmland, I might add, poor farmland, as rainforest soil is not usually used for more than a few years. What happens then? You've fed quite a few people for a few years, but they need more. But now they can get more. US loggers can also now get more trees to use to print the Sunday NY Times. 50 years down the road, what happens? 100 years? When the whole planet is an urban scene? When all the wildlife exists in zoos? When the oxygen-producing plants no longer exist on the grand scale they do now? If you doubt my chain of events here, think about the Sahara desert. What exactly is it, do you think, that makes this desert extend year after year? Smallpox is not a valid comparison. Smallpox did not discriminate based on location. Malaria is a better comparison. Those of us who are against this are not necessarily in favor of preserving animal lives over human lives, we're just thinking of human lives down the road, is it worth destroying the environment for the economic benefit of an area of the globe that could stand to benefit from *so much more* if we did things like building schools, informing the population that having sex with a virgin does *not* cure AIDS, and this list goes on and on. Africa's problem is not the tsetse fly. It's the decades of colonialism followed by a totally barbaric withdrawal and a "laissez-faire" attitude. Hope this clears things up for some of you.
The real question here seems to be who has ownership of the purchsed product. Up until now, with DVDs, software, and the like, IP rights were kept by the producers themselves. This new device threatens to bring this type of ownership to hardware, too. Isn't it ridiculous to say that if you buy a dishwahser you don't own it? It's a dishwasher. Or a stereo.
How absurd would it be to have only the rights to use the dishwasher? You can't "pirate" it (yet), you can't really use it illegitimately, it's not a crime to wash someone else's clothes, actions which have illegal parallels in IP.
This is only a small step, but I wonder how long it will be before consumers lose control over products altogether. Will we only be able to sleep in beds certain hours of the day? Use sofas only on weekends?
Actually, Moore as not talking about speed or copmutational power when he said "doubling," he was actually talking about the number of transistors on a chip. And that can't go on forever because transistors can only get so small and no one wants a four square meter 'micro'processor.
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uhmmm.... no. Have you heard of TCP's 'sliding window'? TCP doesn't just send one packet and wait for its response before sending another, etc.... after your connection is established, if packets are not dropped, more and more packets are sent at once before their ACKs are received. There can be up to n packets 'in the network' at once, where n is the dynamically determined window size.
Will you still have huge latency? Of course. But UDP will fare little better than TCP, and your bandwidth may still be appropriate for those ISOs.
Hmm...I2 is now...faster than light! Tear down the front page!
10 ms from VA to CA is about 3000 miles in 10 ms. That's information traveling round-trip (6000 miles!) in 10 ms, or 600000 miles/second.
Approximately 3.5 times the speed of light. Now that's impressive.
Let's not get carried away here. :)
I'm not 100% sure what the argument for releasing this sterilized fly is. Clearly it can't be "of course this is a good idea, look at all the benefits!"
Let's analyze. No more fly, no more disease, lots of african farmers now live in a life of splendor with fresh water and lots of new farmland.
Meanwhile, the space they've made for themselves by burning acre after acre of thick oxygen-producing and CO2-reducing plant life has been destroyed, and global warming (if the phenomenon indeed exists) increases. 50 years down the road, as more and more of the diseases that threaten humans are eradicated. More and more rainforest is converted into farmland, I might add, poor farmland, as rainforest soil is not usually used for more than a few years. What happens then? You've fed quite a few people for a few years, but they need more. But now they can get more. US loggers can also now get more trees to use to print the Sunday NY Times. 50 years down the road, what happens? 100 years? When the whole planet is an urban scene? When all the wildlife exists in zoos? When the oxygen-producing plants no longer exist on the grand scale they do now?
If you doubt my chain of events here, think about the Sahara desert. What exactly is it, do you think, that makes this desert extend year after year?
Smallpox is not a valid comparison. Smallpox did not discriminate based on location. Malaria is a better comparison.
Those of us who are against this are not necessarily in favor of preserving animal lives over human lives, we're just thinking of human lives down the road, is it worth destroying the environment for the economic benefit of an area of the globe that could stand to benefit from *so much more* if we did things like building schools, informing the population that having sex with a virgin does *not* cure AIDS, and this list goes on and on.
Africa's problem is not the tsetse fly. It's the decades of colonialism followed by a totally barbaric withdrawal and a "laissez-faire" attitude.
Hope this clears things up for some of you.
The real question here seems to be who has ownership of the purchsed product. Up until now, with DVDs, software, and the like, IP rights were kept by the producers themselves. This new device threatens to bring this type of ownership to hardware, too. Isn't it ridiculous to say that if you buy a dishwahser you don't own it? It's a dishwasher. Or a stereo.
How absurd would it be to have only the rights to use the dishwasher? You can't "pirate" it (yet), you can't really use it illegitimately, it's not a crime to wash someone else's clothes, actions which have illegal parallels in IP.
This is only a small step, but I wonder how long it will be before consumers lose control over products altogether. Will we only be able to sleep in beds certain hours of the day? Use sofas only on weekends?
Big brother is watching. And he's coming for you.
You do, of course, realize that ATRAC is an audio compressor, right? Don't plan on compressing your doc's with it.
Actually, Moore as not talking about speed or copmutational power when he said "doubling," he was actually talking about the number of transistors on a chip. And that can't go on forever because transistors can only get so small and no one wants a four square meter 'micro'processor.