36 months ago or so, it was a totally different story. Max rate, any time of day. I suspect "willful ignorance" on ATT and Netflix's part, since fixing the problem would cost more than doing nothing about it. What is super frustrating is that when the netflix app is sitting there saying "Your network bandwidth has changed, switching to 'puke on a sheet in the wind' quality" I can hop on my laptop and do a bandwidth test, bittorrent something, or download an ISO from microsoft.com at the full advertised rate of my Uverse connection less about 50kB/s for the video stream. There is plenty of bandwidth, but someone isn't playing nice.
Now you're just making things up. It doesn't mention that anywhere in the article.
There is a finite amount of bandwidth. The options that have been presented to solve this problem are traffic shaping and capping, so please either throw your towel in with one of those or propose another idea.
It's pretty clear what he (and the other net neutrality types) wants: A 6Mbit connection from AT&T to be $199 a month. Then, they will have enough money to cover the capacity to guarantee you get 6Mbit of download speed from anywhere on the internet at any time of day. Instead of promoting this fantasy of over-subscribing (which has been around since the very dawn of the telecommunication age) he would rather him and his pedantic buddies would finally be able to say "my connection is better than yours" when he is paying the $199 a month and the rest of the US is paying $59 for 512kbit/s.
This whole notion of some *layperson* being able to gloat that they are spending $60 a month on 18 Mbit/s internet??? Malarkey!!!
Because if they just up and did it for no other reason than "it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling" then they would have a lot more people saying "well regular TV programming can shove off, I will just live off Netflix, Hulu, and Youtube". This needs to play out in a way that sets the stage for more balance between content sources and consumers, otherwise AT&T will be leaving money on the table when they give users basically "unlimited video content" for $40 a month. Prices need to fluctuate (read: go up) before we know what the happy medium is, that's just the way the system works.
But Uverse video is NOT delivered the same way as Netflix, iTunes, and the rest... It's not competition; Uverse programming is "broadcast" in a very traditional sense, you watch what's on the stream coming down the pipe and while you have control over *your* stream you have little/no control over all the streams of content coming from the very center. They distribute a LOT of hardware and connectivity to make that all possible, and while I am not trying to defend them or over-hype their service, it is really fundamentally *not* just another source of IP information.
Netflix, hulu, and the rest need to realize that IP unicast from a central hub for TV programming is fundamentally flawed, and start aggressively peering with service providers like AT&T to get a content source *inside* the network where it won't be capped (and where, conveniently enough, its VERY VERY efficient since it saves gateway bandwidth for unique data services that actually NEED it.)
On Uverse? The netflix rate is about 100MB per movie, at the rate that I usually get when watching in the prime-time hours. I consider myself lucky to get anything above the "lowest quality" Netflix stream to any of my netflix ready devices (Xbox, Seagate box, windows box). Meanwhile my bandwidth to just about every other site and service is very very fast. This tells me that either Netflix is really over-selling their "watch instantly" service (highly likely) or ATT is purposely under-provisioning bandwidth for Netflix (possible but not as likely).
I am much more bothered that Netflix thinks EC2 is a CDN (it's not, performance sux during peak hours) than the fact that ATT wants to limit me to 1/4 of a terabyte of bandwidth a month.
It's going to take a quantum leap in hardware design
You mean the smallest possible change?
No, more like theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, then leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that the next leap, will be the leap home.
Because they provide useful services to most of us, and unless you're storing gigabytes of child porn they probably don't have anything interesting to say about you anyway.
I guess your definition of "probably" and my definition of "probably" are a bit different... What's to stop them from cataloging a massive amount of data (which by all accounts they already are) and then suffering a massive security breach that results in that data falling into the hands of people who "probably" DO have interesting things to say about anyone and everyone they disagree with.
The fact that they are ambivalent to anything but the most egregious offenses is some temporary comfort, but once recorded data typically lives a LONG time.
Apparently the creators of Robot Chicken don't realize that DeVry doesn't do ME degrees... A ten second review of their web site would reveal that. Who lacks credibility now? Wake me up when a company that actually hires/employs engineers has a comment; the ramblings of a television show on late night cable TV are hardly high profile.
The launch failures of these satellites do confirm one important piece of data for us: We now have two massive rockets worth of greenhouse gasses swirling around in the atmosphere than we did not before. This is an important data point, I think.
Gee thanks, after all those thousands of cpu-hours my machines spent simulating proteins interacting, they can apparently now just look at the damn thing and record the results. Damn you, progress...
Fabricating the 25-micrometer-thick chip starts with a substrate made from polyethylene naphthalate—a plastic. ”You could compare it to the material that you use to wrap your sandwiches,” says Genoe. ”It’s very flexible.” On top, the team placed a 25-nanometer-thick layer of gold, patterned to make the circuit. Above that sits an organic dielectric, followed by a second patterned gold layer, and finally the organic semiconductor, made of pentacene.
What makes pentacene inorganic, again? And nowhere did they claim it was 100% organic...
Yes, that's what this is about. Freedom to have spam served to me on a silver platter. Please Google, stop filtering all that spam in my gmail inbox too! I hate that you feel the need to protect me; I am a big boy and enjoy sifting through 1000 messages a day looking for the 2 relevant ones! Let freedom ring!/sarcasm.
Please tell me they are going to start going after the myriad car parts spam sites that flood the google rankings when searching for anything but the most obvious automotive items. I am sick and tired of sifting through a dozen completely worthless sites when googling for a part number I am trying to track down. Ebay is more reliable than google for almost everything I am looking for lately.
You would be co-conspirators. Don't forget to punish yourself!
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It's not about learning, it's about training kids to be profitable worker bees. High attendance rates in school train them to come to work on time every day. When company's can count on 100% attendance they can hire less employees because they don't have to worry about covering shifts.
Yes, that's the last thing we want, people who are *duped* into thinking that it's a good thing to show up for work reliably!
Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose"... If having a spine means being a colossal fuckup, then i will forgo the spine in favor of the lucrative career and freedoms that most people (especially those who arent US citizens or convicts) cant even imagine.
I missed 40 days of school in 8th grade (a personal high point), and I didn't get much better about it during highschool. Now I'm working on a Ph.D. in Neurobiology at a translation research and teaching hospital. I credit my not-being-at-my-public-school for the level of success I've achieved.
As a parent, it's my business where my kid is. I'll smash that damn device and hand it back to the truant officer on my kid's behalf. Schools have become the Juvenile Executive branch of the government, and it's not their responsibility. "We'll educate you with the information we want you to know, whether you like it or not!"
Send your kids to private school, or home school them; there is no law that says you have to send them to public school (at least in my state). There are options besides teaching them that its OK to completely disregard authority...
Blame stupidity -- I doubt that the people who devised this program would object to having their own movements tracked by GPS, and so they never considered how this program would impact the students' future perception of their rights.
Their perception of their rights should be thus: If you violate the law (in this case, the law is *go to class*) you will be punished accordingly by having some of your rights (the right to have control over where you go and when) taken away, because you have demonstrated a lack of aptitude for properly exercising that right. It's quite simple. If the alternative is suspension/expulsion, I say strap a tracker on them and watch them 24/7 with updates every 15 seconds. Kids who are on the slippery slope toward delinquency need to be shown what its like to be punished, instead of being given what they want (a way out of school).
No, i am pretty sure the guise here is "think of the fuckups" who will be carrying the trackers; maybe after they spend their freshman year of high school doing so and feeling what its like to be treated like a criminal they will decide they need to start earning trust (by not skipping school). Sure there are other ways to punish, this is just a slightly more convoluted way to do it that has the side effect of maintaining discipline whilst the punishment is being carried out (as opposed to suspension/expulsion which often leads to more delinquency). This is nothing more than a virtual (and MUCH MUCH cheaper) form of juvenile detention. The rest of the population will have no problem since they wont be required to carry the trackers at all.
Perfect? Not at all, but in a perfect world parents would be keeping their kids in line so the schools didnt have to.
"it allows satellites to read English-language technical documents, which in turn instruct the satellites on how to do things such as autonomously identifying and avoiding obstacles."
So they will be able to toss this kind of code in?
On top of that, it will be able to read manuals. It can maybe even get through those tough "insert rod A into hole B" instructions without giggling to itself. Maybe.
If you're really serious about putting Mary Kate and Ashley's head on Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse's bodies, like it says in TFS, you'd use RAW. Then, you can compress everything together. Besides, if you upload that to photo sharing websites (especially Facebook) there's a high chance your picture would be recompressed, so it would have the compression artifacts whether it's been altered or not.
Fail.
Have access to RAW files of the aforementioned act involving Lindsay and Amy, along with ideally angled shots of the Olsen's faces? Didn't think so. So, you go to google images and start digging. What you find (in the ideal world this paper is picturing (ugh no pun intended)) is that every content creator (from the pr0n guys to the papparazzi that took the olsen's picture) have applied this filter to their work, and as such your efforts are for not. Don't get me wrong, there are tons of problems with this whole idea, but saying "well raw doesnt have artifacts anyway" is a bit of a fail.
"New Technique For Making Copy-Evident JPEG Images no longer Copy-Evident"
Seriously, I didnt sit in on the JPEG meetings or anything but it seems like this is a clever idea that could be so very easily circumvented. Recompress the picture, identify the regions exhibiting a "high frequency pattern" (which should be evident) and reverse the frequency of those pixels in the original file prior to recompressing.
Don't see a need? One word: Threehundredfortythreedollarsashare. What, you thought investors were willing to pay that much for ONE share of a company that makes HANDHELD MUSIC PLAYERS?? They are paying for the thrill of being, in some small way, in control over the man whose ego knows no limits. Get some schlemiel to replace him and, well, you remember what the share price was back in 85? Yeah. There goes early retirement.
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36 months ago or so, it was a totally different story. Max rate, any time of day. I suspect "willful ignorance" on ATT and Netflix's part, since fixing the problem would cost more than doing nothing about it. What is super frustrating is that when the netflix app is sitting there saying "Your network bandwidth has changed, switching to 'puke on a sheet in the wind' quality" I can hop on my laptop and do a bandwidth test, bittorrent something, or download an ISO from microsoft.com at the full advertised rate of my Uverse connection less about 50kB/s for the video stream. There is plenty of bandwidth, but someone isn't playing nice.
Now you're just making things up. It doesn't mention that anywhere in the article.
There is a finite amount of bandwidth. The options that have been presented to solve this problem are traffic shaping and capping, so please either throw your towel in with one of those or propose another idea.
It's pretty clear what he (and the other net neutrality types) wants: A 6Mbit connection from AT&T to be $199 a month. Then, they will have enough money to cover the capacity to guarantee you get 6Mbit of download speed from anywhere on the internet at any time of day. Instead of promoting this fantasy of over-subscribing (which has been around since the very dawn of the telecommunication age) he would rather him and his pedantic buddies would finally be able to say "my connection is better than yours" when he is paying the $199 a month and the rest of the US is paying $59 for 512kbit/s.
This whole notion of some *layperson* being able to gloat that they are spending $60 a month on 18 Mbit/s internet??? Malarkey!!!
Because if they just up and did it for no other reason than "it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling" then they would have a lot more people saying "well regular TV programming can shove off, I will just live off Netflix, Hulu, and Youtube". This needs to play out in a way that sets the stage for more balance between content sources and consumers, otherwise AT&T will be leaving money on the table when they give users basically "unlimited video content" for $40 a month. Prices need to fluctuate (read: go up) before we know what the happy medium is, that's just the way the system works.
But Uverse video is NOT delivered the same way as Netflix, iTunes, and the rest... It's not competition; Uverse programming is "broadcast" in a very traditional sense, you watch what's on the stream coming down the pipe and while you have control over *your* stream you have little/no control over all the streams of content coming from the very center. They distribute a LOT of hardware and connectivity to make that all possible, and while I am not trying to defend them or over-hype their service, it is really fundamentally *not* just another source of IP information.
Netflix, hulu, and the rest need to realize that IP unicast from a central hub for TV programming is fundamentally flawed, and start aggressively peering with service providers like AT&T to get a content source *inside* the network where it won't be capped (and where, conveniently enough, its VERY VERY efficient since it saves gateway bandwidth for unique data services that actually NEED it.)
On Uverse? The netflix rate is about 100MB per movie, at the rate that I usually get when watching in the prime-time hours. I consider myself lucky to get anything above the "lowest quality" Netflix stream to any of my netflix ready devices (Xbox, Seagate box, windows box). Meanwhile my bandwidth to just about every other site and service is very very fast. This tells me that either Netflix is really over-selling their "watch instantly" service (highly likely) or ATT is purposely under-provisioning bandwidth for Netflix (possible but not as likely).
I am much more bothered that Netflix thinks EC2 is a CDN (it's not, performance sux during peak hours) than the fact that ATT wants to limit me to 1/4 of a terabyte of bandwidth a month.
It's going to take a quantum leap in hardware design
You mean the smallest possible change?
No, more like theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, then leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that the next leap, will be the leap home.
Because they provide useful services to most of us, and unless you're storing gigabytes of child porn they probably don't have anything interesting to say about you anyway.
I guess your definition of "probably" and my definition of "probably" are a bit different... What's to stop them from cataloging a massive amount of data (which by all accounts they already are) and then suffering a massive security breach that results in that data falling into the hands of people who "probably" DO have interesting things to say about anyone and everyone they disagree with.
The fact that they are ambivalent to anything but the most egregious offenses is some temporary comfort, but once recorded data typically lives a LONG time.
Apparently the creators of Robot Chicken don't realize that DeVry doesn't do ME degrees... A ten second review of their web site would reveal that. Who lacks credibility now? Wake me up when a company that actually hires/employs engineers has a comment; the ramblings of a television show on late night cable TV are hardly high profile.
The launch failures of these satellites do confirm one important piece of data for us: We now have two massive rockets worth of greenhouse gasses swirling around in the atmosphere than we did not before. This is an important data point, I think.
Gee thanks, after all those thousands of cpu-hours my machines spent simulating proteins interacting, they can apparently now just look at the damn thing and record the results. Damn you, progress...
Fabricating the 25-micrometer-thick chip starts with a substrate made from polyethylene naphthalate—a plastic. ”You could compare it to the material that you use to wrap your sandwiches,” says Genoe. ”It’s very flexible.” On top, the team placed a 25-nanometer-thick layer of gold, patterned to make the circuit. Above that sits an organic dielectric, followed by a second patterned gold layer, and finally the organic semiconductor, made of pentacene.
What makes pentacene inorganic, again? And nowhere did they claim it was 100% organic...
Yes, that's what this is about. Freedom to have spam served to me on a silver platter. Please Google, stop filtering all that spam in my gmail inbox too! I hate that you feel the need to protect me; I am a big boy and enjoy sifting through 1000 messages a day looking for the 2 relevant ones! Let freedom ring! /sarcasm.
Please tell me they are going to start going after the myriad car parts spam sites that flood the google rankings when searching for anything but the most obvious automotive items. I am sick and tired of sifting through a dozen completely worthless sites when googling for a part number I am trying to track down. Ebay is more reliable than google for almost everything I am looking for lately.
You would be co-conspirators. Don't forget to punish yourself!
Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities:
3.5:You will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to someone else.
3.12:You will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement.
"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
...Than never to have called at all"
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have called and dropped...
-Alfred Tennyson
It's not about learning, it's about training kids to be profitable worker bees. High attendance rates in school train them to come to work on time every day. When company's can count on 100% attendance they can hire less employees because they don't have to worry about covering shifts.
Yes, that's the last thing we want, people who are *duped* into thinking that it's a good thing to show up for work reliably!
Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose"... If having a spine means being a colossal fuckup, then i will forgo the spine in favor of the lucrative career and freedoms that most people (especially those who arent US citizens or convicts) cant even imagine.
I missed 40 days of school in 8th grade (a personal high point), and I didn't get much better about it during highschool. Now I'm working on a Ph.D. in Neurobiology at a translation research and teaching hospital. I credit my not-being-at-my-public-school for the level of success I've achieved.
As a parent, it's my business where my kid is. I'll smash that damn device and hand it back to the truant officer on my kid's behalf. Schools have become the Juvenile Executive branch of the government, and it's not their responsibility. "We'll educate you with the information we want you to know, whether you like it or not!"
Send your kids to private school, or home school them; there is no law that says you have to send them to public school (at least in my state). There are options besides teaching them that its OK to completely disregard authority...
Blame stupidity -- I doubt that the people who devised this program would object to having their own movements tracked by GPS, and so they never considered how this program would impact the students' future perception of their rights.
Their perception of their rights should be thus: If you violate the law (in this case, the law is *go to class*) you will be punished accordingly by having some of your rights (the right to have control over where you go and when) taken away, because you have demonstrated a lack of aptitude for properly exercising that right. It's quite simple. If the alternative is suspension/expulsion, I say strap a tracker on them and watch them 24/7 with updates every 15 seconds. Kids who are on the slippery slope toward delinquency need to be shown what its like to be punished, instead of being given what they want (a way out of school).
No, i am pretty sure the guise here is "think of the fuckups" who will be carrying the trackers; maybe after they spend their freshman year of high school doing so and feeling what its like to be treated like a criminal they will decide they need to start earning trust (by not skipping school). Sure there are other ways to punish, this is just a slightly more convoluted way to do it that has the side effect of maintaining discipline whilst the punishment is being carried out (as opposed to suspension/expulsion which often leads to more delinquency). This is nothing more than a virtual (and MUCH MUCH cheaper) form of juvenile detention. The rest of the population will have no problem since they wont be required to carry the trackers at all.
Perfect? Not at all, but in a perfect world parents would be keeping their kids in line so the schools didnt have to.
"it allows satellites to read English-language technical documents, which in turn instruct the satellites on how to do things such as autonomously identifying and avoiding obstacles."
So they will be able to toss this kind of code in?
void collisionavoidance() {
RTFM();
}
I LOLed. The script:
10 Don't hit any space junk
20 Goto 10
On top of that, it will be able to read manuals. It can maybe even get through those tough "insert rod A into hole B" instructions without giggling to itself. Maybe.
If you're really serious about putting Mary Kate and Ashley's head on Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse's bodies, like it says in TFS, you'd use RAW. Then, you can compress everything together. Besides, if you upload that to photo sharing websites (especially Facebook) there's a high chance your picture would be recompressed, so it would have the compression artifacts whether it's been altered or not.
Fail.
Have access to RAW files of the aforementioned act involving Lindsay and Amy, along with ideally angled shots of the Olsen's faces? Didn't think so. So, you go to google images and start digging. What you find (in the ideal world this paper is picturing (ugh no pun intended)) is that every content creator (from the pr0n guys to the papparazzi that took the olsen's picture) have applied this filter to their work, and as such your efforts are for not. Don't get me wrong, there are tons of problems with this whole idea, but saying "well raw doesnt have artifacts anyway" is a bit of a fail.
"New Technique For Making Copy-Evident JPEG Images no longer Copy-Evident"
Seriously, I didnt sit in on the JPEG meetings or anything but it seems like this is a clever idea that could be so very easily circumvented. Recompress the picture, identify the regions exhibiting a "high frequency pattern" (which should be evident) and reverse the frequency of those pixels in the original file prior to recompressing.
Don't see a need? One word: Threehundredfortythreedollarsashare. What, you thought investors were willing to pay that much for ONE share of a company that makes HANDHELD MUSIC PLAYERS?? They are paying for the thrill of being, in some small way, in control over the man whose ego knows no limits. Get some schlemiel to replace him and, well, you remember what the share price was back in 85? Yeah. There goes early retirement.