As Ioteck mentions, if you rely on cellular internet, you need to remain within cellular range. Cell service in sparsely populated areas (like campgrounds) is pretty poor. My parents regularly get weak or no service when they go on vacation. You should look into getting an external cell repeater, or an access point that accepts external high gain antenna.
I know when I started (back in '01), the CompE/CompSci programs required a minimum of 20GB hard drive in addition to the CoE laptop requirement, so that they could dual boot Windows and Linux.
By that same logic, you can hold up a store with a banana in your pocket. Posturing that you have a gun can often be just as effective as showing one. We should outlaw all of the phallic fruit.
They ran the engine for 10 seconds. With that limited duration, a bit of ablative material on the skin, and you're fine. Running for 5 minutes and 350 miles is considerably more difficult.
This need not be the case (well, the noise issue likely does) with a future supersonic passenger aircraft.
There is no regulation against flying supersonic over the continent. The regulations are for maximum decibel levels generated over populated areas. You can fly high enough that the pressure waves have dissipated by the time they hit the ground, although this has been found to have limited effect. You can design your fuselage and wing such that the pressure wave is spread out over a longer area, and directed laterally, so it never spikes above the limits. There is been a lot of work in that area over the past few years with the intent of bringing back SSTs.
Right now, it is not illegal, wrong, immoral or forbidden to have a computer owned by a botnet. This means that if my computer at home is infected nothing will stop it from doing whatever its little botnet commander wants it to do. And my ISP will not do anything to prevent or deter this computer from stepping on the rights of others in any way possible.
Maybe 7 years ago, my sister's computer got caught into a botnet. Someone had loaded mIRC and a bot, and her computer was off trying sequentially to find more machines to infect. We got dropped offline, and our modem was blocked from reconnecting.
That evening, I called the ISP tech support, explained what was going on, and explained why we were disconnected. He turned our connection back on, and a couple seconds later, the scans started up again. He then proceeded to walk me though telneting into the modem, watching the NAT states to see which internal IP was causing the behavior, and then tracing that back to the machine that was infected so I could clean it.
The battleships were as large as they were merely to store the shells and powder necessary for those guns. When you start talking about railguns, you can deliver the same amount of kinetic energy in a round a fraction of the size, using just a couple gallons of oil. Since you're delivering the KE through velocity rather than mass, you produce considerably less momentum and don't need such a large ship for stability reasons either. Add a couple additional generators and now you have a cruiser with more firepower (in artillery) than one of those old battleships.
There is no such thing as ClearQAM from the cable box to the television/computer. There is only digital video (DVI/HDMI), analog video (component, svideo, composite), or analog RF (modulated over coax). This is about plugging your tuner card right into the cable line. As you mention, they ARE required by law to provide unencrypted feeds of the broadcast stations, but some cable companies offer more channels.
The big issue here is that you formerly could receive all your extended basic cable channels over analog cable. However now, Comcast is shutting down analog extended basic, shifting those channels over to digital with these inexpensive DTA boxes. If they are allowed to turn on the encryption on those DTAs, you no longer have any way of directly recording those channels, and so you suffer loss of service.
IBM makes Cell servers, but even those are pretty scarce on memory. You have two problems:
XDR memory is ridiculously expensive, and honestly, the Cell should have been built so the XDR was basically a huge L4 cache, using DDR2 for low speed memory. Developers would have had a lot more leeway if they didn't have as much XDR, but instead had access to a bunch of cheap, slow DDR2.
Your still stuck with an dual-execute in-order core. Most programs are not going to add support for the SPEs, so you're stuck with an expensive desktop with poor Atom-like performance.
On the other hand you have something like the Spursengine. It's basically half a Cell, running at half the clockrate, attached over PCI-Express. It provides something like 50GFLOPS at ~20W, but the only one I could find costs $500. You can get a dual Cell blade with 2GB of memory for only $3K, neither of which are something a consumer is going to want to buy.
The real problem is that all this GPGPU stuff started happening around the same time, and consumers have just as much power in a cheap card that they already have in their PC. Even still, there is hardly any market for such a device. Sure, HPC users love it, but in the consumer market, we have one or two video encoders, they're not considerably faster than a decent computer running x264, and produce significantly lesser video quality.
A 3.2GHz Core2 should be able to handle any video an HDPVR can throw at it. The HDPVR really isn't even that high bitrate. Peaking at 13.5mbps, it's less than half what you might find on Bluray disks. The problem is that it is single sliced. You can currently only use one core per slice. The ffmpeg-mt branch should being decoding within range of most dual core processors.
Support. VDPAU is something that is in the drivers, and can be used right now. Last November, they added it to their beta drivers, and offered a patched version of mplayer to test and as a code example. XvBA has been rumored for years, and hints of it showed up in the driver in October, but it is still not functional.
Yes, but you can use efficient, low power engines rather than big heavy rockets.
No, you can't. The van Allen belts are a nasty region of space. Big heavy inefficient rockets will power past them in a matter of hours. Efficient, low power engines take weeks to build up enough energy to rise above them. Anything weight savings you may get from the fuel would just be consumed by the radiation shielding around the crew cabin and life support systems.
The whole reason we should go to the moon is to build a launch facility, to facilitate these deep space missions.
With gravity only 1/6th that of Earth, and nearly no atmospheric drag, it is far easier to make orbit.
With nearly no mangnetic field, you don't get the intensive radiation belts that you would otherwise have to travel through.
We believe there is a large quantity of ice hidden inches below the polar regions of the moon, and ice can be cracked to make fuel. With no atmosphere, you won't have problems with cryogenic fuel tanks overheating, so you don't have any of the insulation problems that the shuttle is currently having.
With the lack of atmospheric drag, and low temperatures conducive to superconductors, a maglev launch system could be constructed, nearly eliminating launch costs, putting payloads directly into a ground level elliptical orbit.
The puzzles get larger and more complex quickly, but can still be solved in a largely mechanical manner. The bigger issue is that these hardware designers know nothing of software design. Ten minutes in and eight levels passed, I notice the 'game' getting very sluggish. I pull up task manager and find 'java.exe' bouncing between 95-98% CPU usage.
On the other hand, you could argue that a successful anti-piracy campaign has no effect on music sales, since those are still down 6% from the year before. While concert sales have gone up 13%, the bulk of the proceeds from a concert goes to the band, as opposed to recorded music sales where the bulk goes back to the record label.
When you calculate IOPS, a good portion small of reads and writes get executed at random places on the disks. When you you make one filesystem write on a raid0 set (depending on how smart the raid0 controller is), it will be locking up several or ALL the disk spindles for that individual read/write.
Actually, that's incorrect. Here's why:
When you make a RAID0 array, you stripe large blocks between all the disks, usually 64K-256K large. If your operation does not cross the block boundary, you only access a single drive. Assuming those random small files are evenly distributed, your IOPS scale almost linearly with drive count.
365kW is nothing. That's not a small power plant, that's a large backup generator. Peak load plants are going to be diesel or gas turbine in the tens to low hundreds of MW range. My university alone has 47MW of generation capacity, sitting in between the main and medical campuses, and averages about 70% load.
Do you currently drive home to fill up your car? (Assuming you're not a farmer) No, so why would you do so in this case? Home charging is generally done to top your batteries off after the daily commute. Overnight charging on a 15 amp circuit could reasonably fill about 1/3 of the battery or around 60mi of travel. Plenty for most people.
Rapid charge is for people expecting to do more than that amount of travel in a single day. It would not be unreasonable to run an industrial power circuit at a couple kV to a gas station.
If consumers find another way to view the data in their house, then tough tits for the satellite company.
Lets put this another way. Your neighbor has a wireless network, and is broadcasting all sorts of information to the neighborhood. Would it be alright for you to break the encryption key, and then use any data you may receive for your own personal use? You're not disrupting anything on their network, you're just capturing data freely transmitted. What about someone using a wireless ISP or satellite internet?
Even if you never intend to use anything acquired against the person, you are still accessing information intended for someone other than you, indicated by the use of encryption.
How about another one, perhaps a bit more appropriate to the topic. Your neighbor has Netflix. Every day before your neighbor comes home, you go to his house, rifle through his mail for new DVDs, rip them, and place them back in the mail box. It's not hurting your neighbor one bit. Netflix gets their copies back, so it's not stealing from them.
If you want to steal satellite, you find a way to completely decrypt all channels being broadcast. If you simply want to access channels you have already paid for, you do something like the R5000 guys do that taps the unencrypted stream coming out of the CAM.
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As Ioteck mentions, if you rely on cellular internet, you need to remain within cellular range. Cell service in sparsely populated areas (like campgrounds) is pretty poor. My parents regularly get weak or no service when they go on vacation. You should look into getting an external cell repeater, or an access point that accepts external high gain antenna.
Just make sure to have plenty of light, because as they will collapse as soon as you observe them.
I know when I started (back in '01), the CompE/CompSci programs required a minimum of 20GB hard drive in addition to the CoE laptop requirement, so that they could dual boot Windows and Linux.
By that same logic, you can hold up a store with a banana in your pocket. Posturing that you have a gun can often be just as effective as showing one. We should outlaw all of the phallic fruit.
They ran the engine for 10 seconds. With that limited duration, a bit of ablative material on the skin, and you're fine. Running for 5 minutes and 350 miles is considerably more difficult.
This need not be the case (well, the noise issue likely does) with a future supersonic passenger aircraft.
There is no regulation against flying supersonic over the continent. The regulations are for maximum decibel levels generated over populated areas. You can fly high enough that the pressure waves have dissipated by the time they hit the ground, although this has been found to have limited effect. You can design your fuselage and wing such that the pressure wave is spread out over a longer area, and directed laterally, so it never spikes above the limits. There is been a lot of work in that area over the past few years with the intent of bringing back SSTs.
Right now, it is not illegal, wrong, immoral or forbidden to have a computer owned by a botnet. This means that if my computer at home is infected nothing will stop it from doing whatever its little botnet commander wants it to do. And my ISP will not do anything to prevent or deter this computer from stepping on the rights of others in any way possible.
Maybe 7 years ago, my sister's computer got caught into a botnet. Someone had loaded mIRC and a bot, and her computer was off trying sequentially to find more machines to infect. We got dropped offline, and our modem was blocked from reconnecting.
That evening, I called the ISP tech support, explained what was going on, and explained why we were disconnected. He turned our connection back on, and a couple seconds later, the scans started up again. He then proceeded to walk me though telneting into the modem, watching the NAT states to see which internal IP was causing the behavior, and then tracing that back to the machine that was infected so I could clean it.
What about that corridor heading up to the bridge, with the two bunks on either side?
The battleships were as large as they were merely to store the shells and powder necessary for those guns. When you start talking about railguns, you can deliver the same amount of kinetic energy in a round a fraction of the size, using just a couple gallons of oil. Since you're delivering the KE through velocity rather than mass, you produce considerably less momentum and don't need such a large ship for stability reasons either. Add a couple additional generators and now you have a cruiser with more firepower (in artillery) than one of those old battleships.
There is no such thing as ClearQAM from the cable box to the television/computer. There is only digital video (DVI/HDMI), analog video (component, svideo, composite), or analog RF (modulated over coax). This is about plugging your tuner card right into the cable line. As you mention, they ARE required by law to provide unencrypted feeds of the broadcast stations, but some cable companies offer more channels.
The big issue here is that you formerly could receive all your extended basic cable channels over analog cable. However now, Comcast is shutting down analog extended basic, shifting those channels over to digital with these inexpensive DTA boxes. If they are allowed to turn on the encryption on those DTAs, you no longer have any way of directly recording those channels, and so you suffer loss of service.
IBM makes Cell servers, but even those are pretty scarce on memory. You have two problems:
On the other hand you have something like the Spursengine. It's basically half a Cell, running at half the clockrate, attached over PCI-Express. It provides something like 50GFLOPS at ~20W, but the only one I could find costs $500. You can get a dual Cell blade with 2GB of memory for only $3K, neither of which are something a consumer is going to want to buy.
The real problem is that all this GPGPU stuff started happening around the same time, and consumers have just as much power in a cheap card that they already have in their PC. Even still, there is hardly any market for such a device. Sure, HPC users love it, but in the consumer market, we have one or two video encoders, they're not considerably faster than a decent computer running x264, and produce significantly lesser video quality.
Actually there are unconfirmed rumors that the hardware runs at a higher clock rate.
I also think it's inappropriate to ban athletes that have subjected themselves to chemical augmentation.
On that note, we have the All Drug Olympics
A 3.2GHz Core2 should be able to handle any video an HDPVR can throw at it. The HDPVR really isn't even that high bitrate. Peaking at 13.5mbps, it's less than half what you might find on Bluray disks. The problem is that it is single sliced. You can currently only use one core per slice. The ffmpeg-mt branch should being decoding within range of most dual core processors.
Support. VDPAU is something that is in the drivers, and can be used right now. Last November, they added it to their beta drivers, and offered a patched version of mplayer to test and as a code example. XvBA has been rumored for years, and hints of it showed up in the driver in October, but it is still not functional.
Yes, but you can use efficient, low power engines rather than big heavy rockets.
No, you can't. The van Allen belts are a nasty region of space. Big heavy inefficient rockets will power past them in a matter of hours. Efficient, low power engines take weeks to build up enough energy to rise above them. Anything weight savings you may get from the fuel would just be consumed by the radiation shielding around the crew cabin and life support systems.
The whole reason we should go to the moon is to build a launch facility, to facilitate these deep space missions.
The puzzles get larger and more complex quickly, but can still be solved in a largely mechanical manner. The bigger issue is that these hardware designers know nothing of software design. Ten minutes in and eight levels passed, I notice the 'game' getting very sluggish. I pull up task manager and find 'java.exe' bouncing between 95-98% CPU usage.
On the other hand, you could argue that a successful anti-piracy campaign has no effect on music sales, since those are still down 6% from the year before. While concert sales have gone up 13%, the bulk of the proceeds from a concert goes to the band, as opposed to recorded music sales where the bulk goes back to the record label.
When you calculate IOPS, a good portion small of reads and writes get executed at random places on the disks. When you you make one filesystem write on a raid0 set (depending on how smart the raid0 controller is), it will be locking up several or ALL the disk spindles for that individual read/write.
Actually, that's incorrect. Here's why:
When you make a RAID0 array, you stripe large blocks between all the disks, usually 64K-256K large. If your operation does not cross the block boundary, you only access a single drive. Assuming those random small files are evenly distributed, your IOPS scale almost linearly with drive count.
Are you currently using some form of narcotic?
365kW is nothing. That's not a small power plant, that's a large backup generator. Peak load plants are going to be diesel or gas turbine in the tens to low hundreds of MW range. My university alone has 47MW of generation capacity, sitting in between the main and medical campuses, and averages about 70% load.
Do you currently drive home to fill up your car? (Assuming you're not a farmer) No, so why would you do so in this case? Home charging is generally done to top your batteries off after the daily commute. Overnight charging on a 15 amp circuit could reasonably fill about 1/3 of the battery or around 60mi of travel. Plenty for most people. Rapid charge is for people expecting to do more than that amount of travel in a single day. It would not be unreasonable to run an industrial power circuit at a couple kV to a gas station.
Too bad there's no mod option for 'amazing Queen reference'...
If consumers find another way to view the data in their house, then tough tits for the satellite company.
Lets put this another way. Your neighbor has a wireless network, and is broadcasting all sorts of information to the neighborhood. Would it be alright for you to break the encryption key, and then use any data you may receive for your own personal use? You're not disrupting anything on their network, you're just capturing data freely transmitted. What about someone using a wireless ISP or satellite internet?
Even if you never intend to use anything acquired against the person, you are still accessing information intended for someone other than you, indicated by the use of encryption.
How about another one, perhaps a bit more appropriate to the topic. Your neighbor has Netflix. Every day before your neighbor comes home, you go to his house, rifle through his mail for new DVDs, rip them, and place them back in the mail box. It's not hurting your neighbor one bit. Netflix gets their copies back, so it's not stealing from them.
If you want to steal satellite, you find a way to completely decrypt all channels being broadcast. If you simply want to access channels you have already paid for, you do something like the R5000 guys do that taps the unencrypted stream coming out of the CAM.