You can read the Word or PDF version of the FCC's National Broadband Plan - request for public comment here:
http://www.fcc.gov/
I think many of you should take the time. I read 1/3 of it today.
Some of their questions they are requesting comments on are pretty politically charged depending on which side of this fence you are on.
The section on how best to promote video support on the internet --- The Cable Companies like Comcast, Time Warner etc are doing everything they can to squash that by putting CAPs on monthly bandwidth usage... which pretty much guarantees to stifle Cable's captured market for Movies/TV.
Then there are what seem to be simple questions but if you think about them... they are not.
How much bandwidth is required to have "adequate" Broadband --- most of us would say unlimited but then that's probably not practical to implement so what is a good answer.
The FCC's document is well written. It requests input by ANYONE, just submit in Word or PDF format.
They are asking for examples of what works in other countries and what doesn't.
They are asking for answers to questions about WiMAX, Cable, DSL etc.
Take some time and comment... or only the large corporations will and you'll get what get.
Yeah, but even your average phone is more powerful than your average PC was in 1982...
So "in the meantime" they will somewhat stick with the low+low, what happens when laptops, phones, GPS, etc all become the same device? People are content with the low power they have now, and with stuff like anti-jailbreaking etc, puts a limit on the push for better/faster/stronger because not many see it yet. People thought your body would fall apart at 50mph 100 years ago... "640kb ought to be enough for anybody"...
PSP (not the most relevant example) might be 300 MHz now, what about PSPII, still 300MHz? Doubtful.
I think the use of ARM is very promising and a really interesting approach.
The ARM may not be quad Intel but if you look at the direction of cloud computing... it doesn't need to be.
All it has to do is boot an operating system and a Browser and then connect to the more powerful resources available in the cloud. Look at what you can do now with just a browser and Amazon's EC2 AMIs?? use a browser, kick of 1 or 1000 virtual machines to work with.
People have got to start thinking beyond the current Desktop paradim.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a great way to do something
like this w/out laying out any money.
As low as 15 cents per hour and ONLY when you are actually
using a virtual resource.
Get an AWS account - its free.
Learn how to use their Amazon Machine Instance (AMI)
management tool to launch any of the hundreds of publicly available operating
system images out there (Windows, Solaris or Linux), 32 bit or 64 bit.
Clone an AMI that you like as a base to make it "yours". Customize it however you like.
Put VMware Workstation on it and you can experiment building
Virtual machines all you like.
I've done it with an Ubuntu 64 Bit AMI then after installing VMware on the Ubuntu 64 I have played around with creation of virtual machines of other operating systems and applications such as Ubuntu Linux,
Mac OSX, and Windows XP & Vista.
Its basically using the virtual
cloud environment that AWS offers to work on developing your own virtual
appliances or machines.
Standard AWS Instances
Instances of this family are well suited for most
applications.
* Small Instance
(Default) 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2
Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
* Large Instance
7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units
each), 850 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
* Extra Large
Instance 15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2
Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
High-CPU Instances
Instances of this family have proportionally more CPU
resources than memory (RAM) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications.
* High-CPU Medium
Instance 1.7 GB of memory, 5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2
Compute Units each), 350 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
* High-CPU Extra
Large Instance 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5
EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) â" One EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) provides
the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron
or 2007 Xeon processor.
I read alot of the wise-cracks posted on this thread and those folks need to remember its NOT ABOUT YOU !! You may already use Linux and Open Office and other Open Source s/w... the majority of the world does NOT. If you want to convince them to join you... then show them they can get to where you are and not lose what they already have & know.
or... let Microsoft continue to brainwash them that "see linux doesn't work"
I'm working toward the same goal here in North Carolina.
One of the bigger obstacles is overcoming the technical side of building, maintaining the applications.
However, if Kansas like many other states including North Carolina is investigating "cloud" computing for K-12... then the Open Source build/maintain/manage issues become very much less of a problem since instead of the burden being laid upon local school districts the systems administration can be done for them.
This also lends itself to a much less expensive desktop client machine requirement as a Browser becomes the basis for most of the applications that get used.
A good example of this would be to do something similar to what www.jumpbox.com does.
Check out their "virtualized" version of Moodle here:
http://www.jumpbox.com/product/Education
Moodle's open source and there would be nothing to prevent Kansas from building their own apps like Moodle and hosting it in a "cloud" for the K-12.
Graphics Environment Manager (GEM) was the 1st PC (non-apple) Graphical Desktop but DRI lost again to Microsoft and Windows 1.0 despite a great GEM development environent that included a true multasking, multitreaded real-time scheduler in the DRI FLEX-OS GEM. Gary Kildall was a great guy and it was a shame he lost to Bill Gates in the early PC days.
>>>GEM/3 Desktop Release 3.11
Copyright (C) 1988 - Digital Research, Inc.
November 3, 1988
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html
Is the URL... but there is a lot of abiguity right now as this FEDERAL (not States) law is what governs what/how school children must be protected while using School resources that access the Internet.
=> The Childrenâ(TM)s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program â" a program that makes certain communications technology more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. In early 2001, the FCC issued rules implementing CIPA. More recently, Congress enacted additional protections for children using the Internet.
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Maybe they can start by stopping Time Warner Cable from slashing the access of about 10 million Americans. That would be a great start.
FCC doesn't regulate Time Warner's High Speed Internet. Each State does it individually. So talk to your State's regulatory commission
You can read the Word or PDF version of the FCC's National Broadband Plan - request for public comment here: http://www.fcc.gov/ I think many of you should take the time. I read 1/3 of it today. Some of their questions they are requesting comments on are pretty politically charged depending on which side of this fence you are on. The section on how best to promote video support on the internet --- The Cable Companies like Comcast, Time Warner etc are doing everything they can to squash that by putting CAPs on monthly bandwidth usage... which pretty much guarantees to stifle Cable's captured market for Movies/TV. Then there are what seem to be simple questions but if you think about them... they are not. How much bandwidth is required to have "adequate" Broadband --- most of us would say unlimited but then that's probably not practical to implement so what is a good answer. The FCC's document is well written. It requests input by ANYONE, just submit in Word or PDF format. They are asking for examples of what works in other countries and what doesn't. They are asking for answers to questions about WiMAX, Cable, DSL etc. Take some time and comment... or only the large corporations will and you'll get what get.
Yeah, but even your average phone is more powerful than your average PC was in 1982...
So "in the meantime" they will somewhat stick with the low+low, what happens when laptops, phones, GPS, etc all become the same device? People are content with the low power they have now, and with stuff like anti-jailbreaking etc, puts a limit on the push for better/faster/stronger because not many see it yet. People thought your body would fall apart at 50mph 100 years ago... "640kb ought to be enough for anybody"...
PSP (not the most relevant example) might be 300 MHz now, what about PSPII, still 300MHz? Doubtful.
I think the use of ARM is very promising and a really interesting approach. The ARM may not be quad Intel but if you look at the direction of cloud computing... it doesn't need to be. All it has to do is boot an operating system and a Browser and then connect to the more powerful resources available in the cloud. Look at what you can do now with just a browser and Amazon's EC2 AMIs?? use a browser, kick of 1 or 1000 virtual machines to work with. People have got to start thinking beyond the current Desktop paradim.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a great way to do something like this w/out laying out any money.
As low as 15 cents per hour and ONLY when you are actually using a virtual resource.
Get an AWS account - its free.
Learn how to use their Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) management tool to launch any of the hundreds of publicly available operating system images out there (Windows, Solaris or Linux), 32 bit or 64 bit.
Clone an AMI that you like as a base to make it "yours". Customize it however you like.
Put VMware Workstation on it and you can experiment building Virtual machines all you like.
I've done it with an Ubuntu 64 Bit AMI then after installing VMware on the Ubuntu 64 I have played around with creation of virtual machines of other operating systems and applications such as Ubuntu Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows XP & Vista.
Its basically using the virtual cloud environment that AWS offers to work on developing your own virtual appliances or machines.
Standard AWS Instances
Instances of this family are well suited for most applications.
* Small Instance (Default) 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
* Large Instance 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
* Extra Large Instance 15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
High-CPU Instances
Instances of this family have proportionally more CPU resources than memory (RAM) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications.
* High-CPU Medium Instance 1.7 GB of memory, 5 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 350 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
* High-CPU Extra Large Instance 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) â" One EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor.
I read alot of the wise-cracks posted on this thread and those folks need to remember its NOT ABOUT YOU !! You may already use Linux and Open Office and other Open Source s/w ... the majority of the world does NOT. If you want to convince them to join you... then show them they can get to where you are and not lose what they already have & know.
or... let Microsoft continue to brainwash them that "see linux doesn't work"
I'm working toward the same goal here in North Carolina. One of the bigger obstacles is overcoming the technical side of building, maintaining the applications. However, if Kansas like many other states including North Carolina is investigating "cloud" computing for K-12... then the Open Source build/maintain/manage issues become very much less of a problem since instead of the burden being laid upon local school districts the systems administration can be done for them. This also lends itself to a much less expensive desktop client machine requirement as a Browser becomes the basis for most of the applications that get used. A good example of this would be to do something similar to what www.jumpbox.com does. Check out their "virtualized" version of Moodle here: http://www.jumpbox.com/product/Education Moodle's open source and there would be nothing to prevent Kansas from building their own apps like Moodle and hosting it in a "cloud" for the K-12.
Graphics Environment Manager (GEM) was the 1st PC (non-apple) Graphical Desktop but DRI lost again to Microsoft and Windows 1.0 despite a great GEM development environent that included a true multasking, multitreaded real-time scheduler in the DRI FLEX-OS GEM. Gary Kildall was a great guy and it was a shame he lost to Bill Gates in the early PC days. >>>GEM/3 Desktop Release 3.11 Copyright (C) 1988 - Digital Research, Inc. November 3, 1988
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html Is the URL... but there is a lot of abiguity right now as this FEDERAL (not States) law is what governs what/how school children must be protected while using School resources that access the Internet. => The Childrenâ(TM)s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a federal law enacted by Congress to address concerns about access to offensive content over the Internet on school and library computers. CIPA imposes certain types of requirements on any school or library that receives funding for Internet access or internal connections from the E-rate program â" a program that makes certain communications technology more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. In early 2001, the FCC issued rules implementing CIPA. More recently, Congress enacted additional protections for children using the Internet.