Bandwidth has nothing to do with the current through a line (or not much....) A normal power line has been designed for 50hz (or 60hz) AC. A coax cable was designed for frequencies in the Mhz to Ghz range. A telephone line was designed for atleast several Khz (speach). The dampening of a power line will be far greater than a coax cable. The same is for shielding. A power line is very suceptable for interference from the outside and can radiate itself far more. That is why greater bandwidth (higher frequencies) will be a huge problem on these lines. Simply put: They weren't designed for this.
No, Ford sells you a car with a manual that tells you what it needs - like gas and oil and all those good things. And they ONLY sell you a car if you have a license, and insurance. We call these things "requirements".
I don't know what country you live in, but here (The Netherlands) you can buy a car without any of that.... The manufacturer would just sell you a car. If you wan't to drive on the road then the government comes in with restrictions. Its the same with wireless stuff, you can buy the equipment and own it legally, but when you want to use it the government comes in with restrictions.
Just like hardware vendors sell you cards with requirements - like a computer, an OS, and all those good things.
They actually have two sets of requirements: one set for the actual hardware (such as a 32bit pccard interface) and one for their software (monopolyOS X.y). My computer fits the first set, there is no reason for them to deny me the use of the hardware.
Just as your Ford doen't run if you put milk in the tank, their hardware won't run without Windows on the Computer.
If the hardware vendor doesn't specify what OS is required, try to sue them - but you'll probably lose because you should have just returned the item.
I'm not an american, suing the company after pouring milk in the tank is not something I am likely to do:)
Quit whining, wake up, and smell the economics. It doesn't make sense for them to cater to a vanishingly small percentage of the marketplace. If it did, it would make them money, and they would do it.
All they would have to do is make specs available, they should have documentation for internal use anyway so there is no extra cost, just a different attitude.
It turns out that ALL of these vendors WILL supply you with drivers. You just have to fork over the green. Lots and lots of green.
Let me make a proposal: start yourself a website that tries to put together enough dough to buy linux drivers for whatever hardware you feel you need a driver for. See how far you get.
I already have a website with the stuff I wrote, that is far more usefull then whining for money. (I already pay them for the hardware so they are making money anyway)
Ford sells you a car without telling you how to operate it, and only lets a Ford driver supplied with the car drive it.... Just because some people might kill their neighbour if they knew how to operate it themselves.
Only binary-only drivers need that kind of ABI stability... The rest of the world has no problems at all.... A five year old ABI might be nice but you are also dragging five year old mistakes along.
The temperature is rising in an alarming rate.... Current earth models predict that at this rate around 2050 there will be a critical point reached where the greenhouse sink holes will break down and become greenhouse sources (breakdown of the amazon rain forest and far worse the release of methanhydrates from the ocean floor). At that point the process will accelerate itself and climate will change drasticly.
What this study shows is that it might not be man's fault but have a natural cause. Fact remains that our current behaviour is driving this in some degree. It might be the main force or completly negligable. It might be the last little push to disaster.
No it is not. Go to any war zone and ask the people there what they think about your spam problems..... You are making the same mistake as the other ac, spam is nowhere near life threathning or even resembles a war.
I am against the death penalty by principle.... I can understand that some people think in the line of an eye for an eye (I don't agree with them, but atleast they have some argument). Spam leads to irritation, or eaven to lost bandwidth or time and thus to a financial damage. To say that that justifies killing is so stupid it isn't even funny.
Nothing, there is no outside.... The notion of an outside is only possible in our representation of the universe mapped onto an infinite 3d space.....which isn't really there in this model
Since even fork with points of a single atom will cause a force on the steak the stack will simply fly away from you.... Unless there is a plate on the other side preventing it moving away from you like on earth. With chopsticks the second stick will provide an equal, yet oposite in direction, force on the other side of the steak... Those forces will cancel eachother out and the steak will not get accelerated.
If you were stabbing harder at a steak in space it would only fly away faster.
Neither did the pc he was comparing the g5 with... They basicly said 'it boots osx faster then other apples, it must be better then anything intel has'
The entire article is full of startup times..... My xt booted faster then his setup which needed almost a minute is surely must beat anything apple has....
Since slackware is the oldest surviving distro around you could almost say it is the definition of "Linux-traditional".... You probably mean something like "Linux-popular"
Cellphones relly on infrastructure.... A shortwave radio can communicate with somebody litterally on the other side of the globe without any additional infrastructure.
A bridge rectifier takes two diodes that's even worse... Assuming a drop of.2 volt and three batteries (which will probably not be enough) you are already using an entire battery just for the diodes. Using the right form is so much easier and it will be just as idiot proof.
Diodes won't do much good, it will cost you a lot of energy (current going through diode and voltage over diode) and it won't protect you from somebody putting in 5 batteries in the right direction and one the wrong way... What would work is make use of the shape of the batreries, they have a pin on the positive side for a reason, a few simple modifications to the plastic (to only allow a small pin to the contact instead of the entire back side) would do the trick and would be far cheaper.
Jeroen
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Nah, it would have been to big, to heavy, to poluting, have useless spoilers and would run on a gallon (ofcourse it would also ignore the easier metric system) of oil per minute and burn a hole in the ozon layer..... And SimputerOnline would be carpet bombing india with memory sticks containing a rebranded browser.
In that case you are assuming that all the farmess kids will grow up to be farmers just like their dad learning from the same books..... Good education means being able to do new things. Made the kids want to be school teachers? Mechanics? Doctors???? (Its unlikely medicine is covered in dad's 'Farming for dummies') All three occupations are usefull in a farming village, and once you have that kind of development the village will need more people in different situations. E.g. once these three are there electricity might be nice so you need electricians, running water and a sewage system.... A need for better housing leads to an need to understand architecture. By now we already have enough books to fill a library. People have a hunger for knowledge far greater than we can feed by sending some farming books. Just look at the frontpage of slashdot, is all that information needed for the one occupation you are practicing (or want to practice). A good programmer would only need a single book about his programming language, a system admin would only need one book about his system, yet we all feel some compulsory need to look at this site... And yes once in a while there is a story that I can actually learn something from that is usefull yet not completly related to the work I am currently doing.
If the amount of information I get on a daily base from using google would be delivered in print on my doorstep I it would mean the end of the rain forrest for sure... Books also tend to be outdated the moment they are printed. Books only tell you what the author found important on that specific subject. Computers can do so much more. (e.g. setting up mailinglists between villages so you can discuss important issues in an efficient way)
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Bandwidth has nothing to do with the current through a line (or not much....)
A normal power line has been designed for 50hz (or 60hz) AC. A coax cable was designed for frequencies in the Mhz to Ghz range. A telephone line was designed for atleast several Khz (speach).
The dampening of a power line will be far greater than a coax cable.
The same is for shielding. A power line is very suceptable for interference from the outside and can radiate itself far more. That is why greater bandwidth (higher frequencies) will be a huge problem on these lines.
Simply put: They weren't designed for this.
Jeroen
I don't know what country you live in, but here (The Netherlands) you can buy a car without any of that.... The manufacturer would just sell you a car. If you wan't to drive on the road then the government comes in with restrictions.
Its the same with wireless stuff, you can buy the equipment and own it legally, but when you want to use it the government comes in with restrictions.
Just like hardware vendors sell you cards with requirements - like a computer, an OS, and all those good things.
They actually have two sets of requirements: one set for the actual hardware (such as a 32bit pccard interface) and one for their software (monopolyOS X.y). My computer fits the first set, there is no reason for them to deny me the use of the hardware.
Just as your Ford doen't run if you put milk in the tank, their hardware won't run without Windows on the Computer.
If the hardware vendor doesn't specify what OS is required, try to sue them - but you'll probably lose because you should have just returned the item.
I'm not an american, suing the company after pouring milk in the tank is not something I am likely to do
Quit whining, wake up, and smell the economics. It doesn't make sense for them to cater to a vanishingly small percentage of the marketplace. If it did, it would make them money, and they would do it.
All they would have to do is make specs available, they should have documentation for internal use anyway so there is no extra cost, just a different attitude.
It turns out that ALL of these vendors WILL supply you with drivers. You just have to fork over the green. Lots and lots of green.
Let me make a proposal: start yourself a website that tries to put together enough dough to buy linux drivers for whatever hardware you feel you need a driver for. See how far you get.
I already have a website with the stuff I wrote, that is far more usefull then whining for money.
(I already pay them for the hardware so they are making money anyway)
Jeroen
Lets take your analogy back to linux:
Ford sells you a car without telling you how to operate it, and only lets a Ford driver supplied with the car drive it.... Just because some people might kill their neighbour if they knew how to operate it themselves.
Jeroen
Only binary-only drivers need that kind of ABI stability... The rest of the world has no problems at all....
A five year old ABI might be nice but you are also dragging five year old mistakes along.
Jeroen
If sept 11. had thought you anything it should be that atleast some people in the world have stopped ignoring you....
Jeroen
No they will probably use another proven tactic for this: Ignore the rest of the world and be egocentric idiots
Jeroen
The temperature is rising in an alarming rate....
Current earth models predict that at this rate around 2050 there will be a critical point reached where the greenhouse sink holes will break down and become greenhouse sources (breakdown of the amazon rain forest and far worse the release of methanhydrates from the ocean floor). At that point the process will accelerate itself and climate will change drasticly.
What this study shows is that it might not be man's fault but have a natural cause.
Fact remains that our current behaviour is driving this in some degree. It might be the main force or completly negligable. It might be the last little push to disaster.
Jeroen
Thank you for confirming the Trigger-Happy-Texan-Cowboy stereotype.
No it is not. Go to any war zone and ask the people there what they think about your spam problems.....
You are making the same mistake as the other ac, spam is nowhere near life threathning or even resembles a war.
Jeroen
I am against the death penalty by principle....
I can understand that some people think in the line of an eye for an eye (I don't agree with them, but atleast they have some argument).
Spam leads to irritation, or eaven to lost bandwidth or time and thus to a financial damage. To say that that justifies killing is so stupid it isn't even funny.
Jeroen
Please read carfully before posting.....
It are stats from may 1 to sept 30 (that is 153 days) and they are categorized by day of the week.....
How hard is that?????
Jeroen
Nothing, there is no outside....
The notion of an outside is only possible in our representation of the universe mapped onto an infinite 3d space.....which isn't really there in this model
Jeroen
Also by using a sharp fork, you introduce unecessary risk during meal time. You could either cut your own mouth or injure others near you....
Don't forget puncturing the hull in case you miss the steak and launch your fork into its own orbit
Jeroen
Basic physics:
Since even fork with points of a single atom will cause a force on the steak the stack will simply fly away from you.... Unless there is a plate on the other side preventing it moving away from you like on earth.
With chopsticks the second stick will provide an equal, yet oposite in direction, force on the other side of the steak... Those forces will cancel eachother out and the steak will not get accelerated.
If you were stabbing harder at a steak in space it would only fly away faster.
Jeroen
Neither did the pc he was comparing the g5 with...
They basicly said 'it boots osx faster then other apples, it must be better then anything intel has'
Jeroen
Did this guy actually test anything????
The entire article is full of startup times.....
My xt booted faster then his setup which needed almost a minute is surely must beat anything apple has....
Jeroen
That would work, but you would en up scrapping your mouse from the centrifuge walls.....
Jeroen
Since slackware is the oldest surviving distro around you could almost say it is the definition of "Linux-traditional".... You probably mean something like "Linux-popular"
Jeroen
Cellphones relly on infrastructure....
A shortwave radio can communicate with somebody litterally on the other side of the globe without any additional infrastructure.
Jeroen
A bridge rectifier takes two diodes that's even worse... Assuming a drop of .2 volt and three batteries (which will probably not be enough) you are already using an entire battery just for the diodes. Using the right form is so much easier and it will be just as idiot proof.
Jeroen
Diodes won't do much good, it will cost you a lot of energy (current going through diode and voltage over diode) and it won't protect you from somebody putting in 5 batteries in the right direction and one the wrong way...
What would work is make use of the shape of the batreries, they have a pin on the positive side for a reason, a few simple modifications to the plastic (to only allow a small pin to the contact instead of the entire back side) would do the trick and would be far cheaper.
Jeroen
Nah, it would have been to big, to heavy, to poluting, have useless spoilers and would run on a gallon (ofcourse it would also ignore the easier metric system) of oil per minute and burn a hole in the ozon layer.....
And SimputerOnline would be carpet bombing india with memory sticks containing a rebranded browser.
Jeroen
In that case you are assuming that all the farmess kids will grow up to be farmers just like their dad learning from the same books.....
Good education means being able to do new things.
Made the kids want to be school teachers? Mechanics? Doctors???? (Its unlikely medicine is covered in dad's 'Farming for dummies')
All three occupations are usefull in a farming village, and once you have that kind of development the village will need more people in different situations.
E.g. once these three are there electricity might be nice so you need electricians, running water and a sewage system.... A need for better housing leads to an need to understand architecture.
By now we already have enough books to fill a library.
People have a hunger for knowledge far greater than we can feed by sending some farming books.
Just look at the frontpage of slashdot, is all that information needed for the one occupation you are practicing (or want to practice). A good programmer would only need a single book about his programming language, a system admin would only need one book about his system, yet we all feel some compulsory need to look at this site... And yes once in a while there is a story that I can actually learn something from that is usefull yet not completly related to the work I am currently doing.
Jeroen
Jeroen
If the amount of information I get on a daily base from using google would be delivered in print on my doorstep I it would mean the end of the rain forrest for sure... Books also tend to be outdated the moment they are printed.
Books only tell you what the author found important on that specific subject. Computers can do so much more. (e.g. setting up mailinglists between villages so you can discuss important issues in an efficient way)
Jeroen
Until somebody overrides the safety protocols and you are blasted into the hot fog pool by a fog rocket :)
Jeroen