Let me try to shed some light (as a UTD grad). The access from the school is REALLY poor. Horrible in fact. Until a few years (2) the only option they has was dialup, the wouldn't even provide Ethernet. The reason for all this is a REALLY bad deal, where the only housing on campus is privatly owned apartments. They are run by a private company, have no offical relationship to the school, but only place you can live / using your housing scholarship etc is Waterview. Now Waterview didnt want UTD putting up cat5 in their bulding, hence no access. Then they hatched this scheme for wireless. It's REALLY poor QoS, plus many of the students work in the surrounding Telcom area, where you have to VPN in etc, things you can't do over the campus connection. It's a nice plus when you want quick access to the Solaris cluster, or libary, but not much else. Students have been setting up their own stuff for years. Keep in mind UTD is mostly EE and CS folks.
I don't think that comment is really all that true. In the history of relative research (and in the math behind it) the fact that information can not travel faster than c is the starting point, and all of relativity derives from there. Time dilation, Lorentz contraction, is all the necessary by product of the absolute speed limit of light. What is more important here is that the NY Times (a non scientific publication) has taken non peer reviewed data and applied a bunch of conclusions that only make sense if your knowledge of relativity stops at the one chapter in the back of your high school text! Faster than light propagation is not new (DeBroglie wave etc.) the key is they don't carry information, so that don't really count.
Kinda reminds me of the old Micro$oft joke, "How many M$ employes does it take to change a light bulb?" None, they simply declare darkenss the new standard." Makes prefect sense right? If the law says what you did was wrong, then you might as well just go ahead and buy a change in the law. What do you think it takes to change anti trust law in the US. It may be the saddest thing in the whole case. Not only will they delay long enough for Shrub Bush to take office, but in the proccess they'll change the law so now anyone can do what they did.
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Let me try to shed some light (as a UTD grad). The access from the school is REALLY poor. Horrible in fact. Until a few years (2) the only option they has was dialup, the wouldn't even provide Ethernet. The reason for all this is a REALLY bad deal, where the only housing on campus is privatly owned apartments. They are run by a private company, have no offical relationship to the school, but only place you can live / using your housing scholarship etc is Waterview. Now Waterview didnt want UTD putting up cat5 in their bulding, hence no access. Then they hatched this scheme for wireless. It's REALLY poor QoS, plus many of the students work in the surrounding Telcom area, where you have to VPN in etc, things you can't do over the campus connection. It's a nice plus when you want quick access to the Solaris cluster, or libary, but not much else. Students have been setting up their own stuff for years. Keep in mind UTD is mostly EE and CS folks.
Will need a few more show to be sure, but what i do know now is Bakula NEEDS TO WEAR PANTS WHEN MAKING LOGS.
I don't think that comment is really all that true. In the history of relative research (and in the math behind it) the fact that information can not travel faster than c is the starting point, and all of relativity derives from there. Time dilation, Lorentz contraction, is all the necessary by product of the absolute speed limit of light. What is more important here is that the NY Times (a non scientific publication) has taken non peer reviewed data and applied a bunch of conclusions that only make sense if your knowledge of relativity stops at the one chapter in the back of your high school text! Faster than light propagation is not new (DeBroglie wave etc.) the key is they don't carry information, so that don't really count.
Kinda reminds me of the old Micro$oft joke, "How many M$ employes does it take to change a light bulb?" None, they simply declare darkenss the new standard." Makes prefect sense right? If the law says what you did was wrong, then you might as well just go ahead and buy a change in the law. What do you think it takes to change anti trust law in the US. It may be the saddest thing in the whole case. Not only will they delay long enough for Shrub Bush to take office, but in the proccess they'll change the law so now anyone can do what they did.