I'm pretty sure Virgin isn't rolling out Fibre-to-the-home, just using their existing cable network, it really irks me that they get to advertise 'Fibre Optic Network' when it's set up pretty much the same as BT Openreach's, just with newer cables to the home.
I think it would be a grand strategy in Afghanistan -- build goodwill with farmers through buying their crop at prices better than the Taliban is offering, denying the Taliban a source of income through trafficking and probably having a significant supply reduction in the global heroin market.
This would probably cause a knock-on effect of increasing production in the area, due to the fact that you will be increasing the profits for the poppy growers, and perhaps also encouraging people to start poppy farming; selling to US troops is probably a hell of a lot less scary than selling to the Taliban.
Latency (for a not overbooked line) depends on bandwitdh and packet size. Same packetsize and ten times the bandwidth reduces the latency nearly by a factor of ten (on a single line).
I'm confused as to how this statement holds up, currently I have a 16Mb or so line at home with pings of about say 100ms to a server. If I was to get an upgrade to a 50Mb line, this means my ping would go down to 32ms?
Surely latency is how long the signal takes to get to a server and back, how would allowing more signals to go back and forward help increase the speed that they get to the server and back?
Car analogy: If say the speed-limit on a motorway was 70mph, and there was no congestion on the road; why would adding in extra lanes to the motorway increase how fast I get to my destination?
This is an issue with latency, not bandwidth; even if you had a dedicated 100Mb line but had 100 ping it would be unplayable.
I doubt future improvements will be able to speed up the hardware that process signals by a huge margin, and presumably they're not going to change the speed of light any time soon; the only real thing they can do is put the data centres closer to the end-user to improve performance.
Surely making politics more interesting for the general public is a good thing?
It might get people interested in a subject that has a social taboo surrounding it, as well as being fairly intimidating at first; I know I'd like some sort of simplified breakdown of things half the time, which is why I try and catch Newsround if I can (if you're not British, it's a child's news show).
The problem being is that I can see it being terribly biased; maybe I'm spoilt a little bit from the fairly neutral BBC.
Even though I have practically zero knowledge of the topic at hand, I can imagine the advantage is that this propulsion system means that you don't loose any mass while gaining acceleration.
This means you don't have to lug around huge amounts of material to throw out the back of your spaceship, it just means you need some way of producing energy (solar cells?) to power the drive.
I'm sure the actual law has some more rigorous definitions (not necessarily any less ridiculous mind you) of what a conversation consists of.
Now what I'm wondering is, how can I know what age someone I'm talking to is?
Do they have to announce their age before I have to stop talking to them, or am I supposed to find other means?
Bearing in mind that just about any way of finding out someone's age would probably be a bit suspicious: asking for photo, asking for a webcam session, asking for a voice chat, or even just asking them their age in text.
I ask this because I know a lot of kids that sound more mature than a majority of the 'adults' I chat to online, although a few things give them away.
Everyone seems to be presuming that his phone is at fault, but there are 2 parts to this equation, the phone and the music file.
Did your friend happen to encode his music in some god awful file format, that has DRM built in?
I can't imagine how a phone would label something as 'unlicensed' if it was in.MP3 format for example; there would be no difference between a licensed.MP3 and an unlicensed copy.
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Also see this great TED talk, Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
I'm pretty sure Virgin isn't rolling out Fibre-to-the-home, just using their existing cable network, it really irks me that they get to advertise 'Fibre Optic Network' when it's set up pretty much the same as BT Openreach's, just with newer cables to the home.
If I'm not mistaken, BT Openreach is beating Virgin laying out fibre-to-the-home by presumably a long .. long time:
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4068-openreach-fibre-to-the-home-coverage-to-double.html
You're seriously comparing hosting that many live-action gaming servers with some match-making servers?
The game servers are hosted by the players, not Blizzard; only the match-making server will be hosted by Blizzard.
I think it would be a grand strategy in Afghanistan -- build goodwill with farmers through buying their crop at prices better than the Taliban is offering, denying the Taliban a source of income through trafficking and probably having a significant supply reduction in the global heroin market.
This would probably cause a knock-on effect of increasing production in the area, due to the fact that you will be increasing the profits for the poppy growers, and perhaps also encouraging people to start poppy farming; selling to US troops is probably a hell of a lot less scary than selling to the Taliban.
My mule has a prosthetic leg, you insensitive clod!
Latency (for a not overbooked line) depends on bandwitdh and packet size. Same packetsize and ten times the bandwidth reduces the latency nearly by a factor of ten (on a single line).
I'm confused as to how this statement holds up, currently I have a 16Mb or so line at home with pings of about say 100ms to a server. If I was to get an upgrade to a 50Mb line, this means my ping would go down to 32ms?
Surely latency is how long the signal takes to get to a server and back, how would allowing more signals to go back and forward help increase the speed that they get to the server and back?
Car analogy:
If say the speed-limit on a motorway was 70mph, and there was no congestion on the road; why would adding in extra lanes to the motorway increase how fast I get to my destination?
This is an issue with latency, not bandwidth; even if you had a dedicated 100Mb line but had 100 ping it would be unplayable.
I doubt future improvements will be able to speed up the hardware that process signals by a huge margin, and presumably they're not going to change the speed of light any time soon; the only real thing they can do is put the data centres closer to the end-user to improve performance.
Any CEO would be in deep trouble for what he did.
Where the hell have you been in the past few years?
Was taking X-rays of children illegal all those years, and nobody noticed?
Check out that bone structure!
I thought this was how it worked already?
Surely making politics more interesting for the general public is a good thing?
It might get people interested in a subject that has a social taboo surrounding it, as well as being fairly intimidating at first; I know I'd like some sort of simplified breakdown of things half the time, which is why I try and catch Newsround if I can (if you're not British, it's a child's news show).
The problem being is that I can see it being terribly biased; maybe I'm spoilt a little bit from the fairly neutral BBC.
Even though I have practically zero knowledge of the topic at hand, I can imagine the advantage is that this propulsion system means that you don't loose any mass while gaining acceleration.
This means you don't have to lug around huge amounts of material to throw out the back of your spaceship, it just means you need some way of producing energy (solar cells?) to power the drive.
More specifically, I meant to link to the small section named Scientific Laws at the bottom of the page.
Silly me!
I don't think that means, what you think it means: Scientific Theory
I'm sure the actual law has some more rigorous definitions (not necessarily any less ridiculous mind you) of what a conversation consists of.
Now what I'm wondering is, how can I know what age someone I'm talking to is?
Do they have to announce their age before I have to stop talking to them, or am I supposed to find other means?
Bearing in mind that just about any way of finding out someone's age would probably be a bit suspicious: asking for photo, asking for a webcam session, asking for a voice chat, or even just asking them their age in text.
I ask this because I know a lot of kids that sound more mature than a majority of the 'adults' I chat to online, although a few things give them away.
Or they read New York Times, which Slashdot quoted in the said article.
I thought nobody read newspapers any more?
Well at least now they'll spend all that money on making sure things are actually secure!
Look at languages such as JavaScript in Flash [..]
I wouldn't say JavaScript = Actionscript; they're both descendants of ECMAScript.
Actually I doubt the average shclub will know this scheme is coming into play.
And anyone thinking about joining Virgin Media will just be thinking "Oh cheap interwebz, bargain!".
Everyone seems to be presuming that his phone is at fault, but there are 2 parts to this equation, the phone and the music file.
Did your friend happen to encode his music in some god awful file format, that has DRM built in?
I can't imagine how a phone would label something as 'unlicensed' if it was in .MP3 format for example; there would be no difference between a licensed .MP3 and an unlicensed copy.
Then you could use "thought macros" to control wearable computers.
What, like this product?
I don't know about that, I'm sure it'd be better product testing than them automated machines you see in IKEA.
Congress has mandated that, by 2012, all containers bound for the US be inspected overseas.
Is 'overseas' more than 20km offshore?
Can someone explain exactly what the benefits/drawbacks of using GPUs for processing?
It would also be nice if someone could give a quick run down of what sort of applications GPUs are good at.
He couldn't fit it in his case, you insensitive clod!
How exactly would Fibre Optics help in this situation?