Seems too good to be true. I wonder what the downside is.
Huh? Isn't it evident? At the current rate, 't'll melt long before the 90 years will elapse.>br>
So, what would you expect the Chinese to do? (stop importing gas from Russia, start competing with them as a vendor, pissing the Russians off....)
On the same line, cannot stop wondering what's next?
I mean: to remove the limitations of walls being opaque to Vis light and increase the bandwidth, one can imagine using hard X-Rays and gamma radiation as a carrier for WiFi, ain't it?
Go figure: applying the Niquist-Shanon theorem, the bandwidth would be around 15 PHz: yes, right, peta-hertz, about 12 orders of magnitude higher than the puny 230 MHz - at this rate, one would download a BlueRay full-quality-rip movie in a matter of nanoseconds - that's for sure faster than any epileptic cat would be able to notice and throw a fit.
I just can't wait! No, seriously, I really can't hold my breath that long (i.e. until this quantum-leap technology becomes commercially available).
I RTFA. It says that they achieve the bandwidth by filtering out the blue light
Proud, huh? Then, I suggest you doing it again:
Luckily, researchers were able to expand the bandwidth by leaps and bounds by filtering out all but the blue light (cool!).
Which makes sense, given that blue has a higher freq in the spectrum. Otherwise it would be like: now, filter out the green and increase the bandwidth a.s.o.
NIMBY and Greenpeace. Coal is responsile for the deaths of over 40,000 people a year in the United States due to various pollution caused by Coal plants. I wonder why people are screaming so loud to stop nuclear plants when Coal is by far the greater danger to life and the environment.
Just for the sake of argumentation: I wonder if we have to wait 'til more than 40,000 people will die in a year in US for somebody to say: "Hey, redtape is justified if/when makes us better protected against radioactive leaks (and lies under oath? or miswording/misunderstandings, intentional or not?)".
Don't reinvent the wheel. Look around, search for what's been done before and adapt it to suit your needs.
What if I need a cog or a chassis?
Scrapheap Challenge rings a bell? With, in most of the occasions, better build the chassis yourself than struggle to get it free and work furiously to adapt it?
... if their product can be used as a gateway for malware to enter the system running it.
They should at least write a "How to install/run BOINC without being screwed", if not extend of connection protocol to force a "BOINC tasks distribution server" to authenticate in a special mode (while deprecating the prev protocol allowing a poser to trick the user into downloading "jobs" from them).
I only really care about the fact that power could (or will here in Oz) cost more.
Out-smart them, be "green" in the same time: build yourself an "energy buffer" (accumulators), fill it full in "off-peak" hours (usually at night), feed the energy back (or use it) at peak times. An example of peak/off-peak tarrifs
If you leave in ACT (you lucky b...;) ) and afford to install a solar panel, you may even get a profit from the use of the buffer (note: would be unethical/immoral, don't know how legal, to mis-present the energy you are feeding back in as being produced by your solar panel, but the fact is ACT is the only state which pays the gross feed-in at preferential price).
Secondary effect: they won't be able to profile your energy consumption (so the most paranoid of us can sleep better... if and whatever time we choose to sleep).
This misconfiguration of buffers (if that is really a cause at all) is probably because they might not hire people with any knowledge of what they are doing to keep costs low.
Connecting to other topics: would you trust them to manage better the traffic shaping or would you consider that the network neutrality is the cheapest?
when is "cheaper" coming from the provider's pocket (and is passed on to the customers) and when is "cheaper" coming actually from offsetting the provider cost on the expense of you customers (thus the quality sucks)?
is this self-infliction accidental (they don't know better) or is it deliberate (making you wait results in taxing you higher)?
Oh, spare me with Skynet - can't you find other tangents to explore?
Whenever autonomous robots are deployed, humans will still be in the loop, at least legally. If a robot does do something ethically wrong, despite its programming,
the software engineer or the builder of the robot will likely be held accountable, says Michael Anderson at Franklin and Marshall University.
Whow! Finally, some software to be released without the typical LIMITED WARRANTY section in EULA?
"Software Engineer held accountable"? This will bring the "Corporate Finger-Pointing games" to a new level of professionalism/competitiveness (with dev/testing in a huge clash).
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Seems too good to be true. I wonder what the downside is.
Huh? Isn't it evident? At the current rate, 't'll melt long before the 90 years will elapse.>br> So, what would you expect the Chinese to do? (stop importing gas from Russia, start competing with them as a vendor, pissing the Russians off....)
Good enough for yea?
I mean: to remove the limitations of walls being opaque to Vis light and increase the bandwidth, one can imagine using hard X-Rays and gamma radiation as a carrier for WiFi, ain't it?
Go figure: applying the Niquist-Shanon theorem, the bandwidth would be around 15 PHz: yes, right, peta-hertz, about 12 orders of magnitude higher than the puny 230 MHz - at this rate, one would download a BlueRay full-quality-rip movie in a matter of nanoseconds - that's for sure faster than any epileptic cat would be able to notice and throw a fit.
I just can't wait! No, seriously, I really can't hold my breath that long (i.e. until this quantum-leap technology becomes commercially available).
I RTFA. It says that they achieve the bandwidth by filtering out the blue light
Proud, huh? Then, I suggest you doing it again:
Which makes sense, given that blue has a higher freq in the spectrum.
Otherwise it would be like: now, filter out the green and increase the bandwidth a.s.o.
I wonder why people are not screaming at least equally loud to stop Coal plants when Coal is by far the greater danger to life and the environment.
Fixed that for ya.
NIMBY and Greenpeace. Coal is responsile for the deaths of over 40,000 people a year in the United States due to various pollution caused by Coal plants. I wonder why people are screaming so loud to stop nuclear plants when Coal is by far the greater danger to life and the environment.
Just for the sake of argumentation: I wonder if we have to wait 'til more than 40,000 people will die in a year in US for somebody to say: "Hey, redtape is justified if/when makes us better protected against radioactive leaks (and lies under oath? or miswording/misunderstandings, intentional or not?)".
Don't reinvent the wheel. Look around, search for what's been done before and adapt it to suit your needs.
What if I need a cog or a chassis? Scrapheap Challenge rings a bell? With, in most of the occasions, better build the chassis yourself than struggle to get it free and work furiously to adapt it?
Linux is what Windows should have been.
Here... fixed that for ya! (as for what really Windows should be, just don't get me started).
... if their product can be used as a gateway for malware to enter the system running it. They should at least write a "How to install/run BOINC without being screwed", if not extend of connection protocol to force a "BOINC tasks distribution server" to authenticate in a special mode (while deprecating the prev protocol allowing a poser to trick the user into downloading "jobs" from them).
I only really care about the fact that power could (or will here in Oz) cost more.
Out-smart them, be "green" in the same time: build yourself an "energy buffer" (accumulators), fill it full in "off-peak" hours (usually at night), feed the energy back (or use it) at peak times. ;) ) and afford to install a solar panel, you may even get a profit from the use of the buffer (note: would be unethical/immoral, don't know how legal, to mis-present the energy you are feeding back in as being produced by your solar panel, but the fact is ACT is the only state which pays the gross feed-in at preferential price).
An example of peak/off-peak tarrifs
If you leave in ACT (you lucky b...
Secondary effect: they won't be able to profile your energy consumption (so the most paranoid of us can sleep better... if and whatever time we choose to sleep).
A centralized model can't react in real time to factors that change by the minute or by the second like human actors can.
But it can! (as long as the requirement for the decision be correct is not imposed).
(on the same line: an army officer does not need to be right, he only needs to be damn'd sure. And quick!)
This misconfiguration of buffers (if that is really a cause at all) is probably because they might not hire people with any knowledge of what they are doing to keep costs low.
Connecting to other topics: would you trust them to manage better the traffic shaping or would you consider that the network neutrality is the cheapest?
... have pretty much the same relevance in our world today.
Whow! Finally, some software to be released without the typical LIMITED WARRANTY section in EULA?
"Software Engineer held accountable"? This will bring the "Corporate Finger-Pointing games" to a new level of professionalism/competitiveness (with dev/testing in a huge clash).
On another tangent: Open Source anyone?
Shouldn't they be oztranauts? Or even ozznauts? (ozz-nots rather... I mean... given the budget...)