The article is not about discontinuing all spy satelites. It's about discontinuing the incredibly expensive stealth satelites, which our enemies *shouldn't* be able to identify the orbits of.
How long before people start subscribing to "computers"?
Why not have a reasonably fast system, all the software you need, broadband and tech support for "one low monthly fee". Whenever it gets obsolete someone appears and moves everything to a more recent system.
We "buy" cellphones that way, many people lease cars that way... sure it wont be popular here, but it'd work for most people.
I don't know the company off the top of my head, but I have a friend in Tampere who's appartment building was recently upgraded from 100Mbit to 1Gbit. That's shared bandwidth, but it stil works out faster than my 3Mbit cable.
Yeah but most of these features only work with POTS, and they had ISDN. After all when you've gotten used to 1sec dialup connection times it's hard to go back.
Naturally the various bells and cable cos love it when they can roll out broadband without any real capital investment.
Most people, like my parents, never saw the need for broadband, but now that they have 512k connections can't understand how they coped without them.
People won't want a faster connection until they've come to expect one, but presently that only includes those of us who've worked with networks in the acaedemic or corporate world.
At work i'll cancel a download that's under about 600kbytes/s and try to find a mirror - yet i remember when 3kbyte/s was revolutionary.
Still if company X says that a 1Mbit/s connection is blazingly fast broadband then 90% of people will eat it up and never disagree. So there's no incentive to do anything better - which is surely where the government should come in.
They happily build 10 lane highways, surely a good comm network is a natural extension of that.
Hmmm Japan has it, I know someone in Finland with it... yet when i call up comcast they don't even know what i'm talking about.
Sounds like the US and UK strategy is to squeeze as much as possible from our antiquated telephone and cable networks, and we'll worry about laying fiber some time later....
But it's probably not a 3Mb/3Mb connection either.
When your connection gets faster it becomes practical to mount disks on remote systems. I'm forced to do this sort of thing for work and it's pretty slow even when i'm only editing source files.
I also upload a number of large image files, and could always use this being faster.
It's significantly cheaper for my parents to drop their second phone line and dialup service and switch to DSL. Equally though it hasn't been available until very recently.
Is that in the USA (and the UK) it seems that broadband is kinda-fast. Maybe maxing out at a few megabit/s.
Parts of the far east and scandinavia seem to have far faster connections already... yet in the west we are rolling out slow broadband services and haven't really got plans for higher speed ones.
This will restrict the possibilities for video on demand and similar services. Of course it's likely that comcast et al might want that...
Well the laptop in question has a failed battery, no networking capabilities, and is maxed out with 8MB ram. They keyboard is flaky and i think the floppy drive has failed.
A system of that spec is of limited use to anyone given that a desktop would be more useful and work better. However it's an ideal photoframe project since it has a 800x600 active-matrix lcd.
I've donated odd computers to schools or needy friends, but if i'm going to have to support it i'd rather give away something good.
I agree that it's no great hardware hack, but consider how difficult it is to interface with a mono lcd, i can't imagine investing that kind of effort for a digital picture frame.
If you aren't astute enough to configure your own network to avoid the things that bother you... then you probably aren't going to be too hot at managing other users.
I lived for a few years in an appartment in the UK where 5 very net-heavy users shared a 1024/256 connection. At one point i clocked 23 devices on our lan with over two hundred tcp sessions open, yet it very rarely felt slow.
Shape your overall connection so nothing is ever buffered on the cable modem. Then you can play games on your outbound queue.
SSH, VoIP and Game traffic can go straight to the front of the queue.
Web traffic probably comes next
P2P comes in about here
SMTP/POP/FTP can sit below that
Then you should be able to structure any remote backup tasks even lower...
Still any connection sharing is far better among people who realize that it's not your job. Sharing a connection with a non-tech-literate friend is usually a safe bet. You'd have to educate them about worms and p2p anyway, so having them running web + email through your connection is no biggie.
This is one of those situations where i'd be really inclined to distrust it unless it were open source.
I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that all messages are logged and can be decryped by the appropriate authorities.
The move of offering "encryption over the internet" may be a carrot to discourage people from using aim/msn/icq/irc, while bringing conversations back to where they can be intercepted.
I think Trillian provides end to end encryption on top of standard messaging networks.
Well i choose to only work 40 hours most weeks. I can fill up my spare time with consulting work, or i can dabble around in stock photography, or i can spent time with my wife and family.
The other way to look as this is that tivo + lifetime subscription costs about the same as a decent HTPC box...
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What does this do for battery life. I like that my current Samsung phone is small and runs for most of a week without any recharging.
OTOH i have to recharge my ipod every day that i want to use it (although it is a pretty old one).
Do "consumers" really want this kind of convergence? I know i dont.
Then it's all about the monnneh
True,
But it's a lot easier to catch someone who sells you a 2.2GHz chip that actually only runs at 1.8.
It's harder to prove that they sold you a chip that runs hotter and fails more often that it should.
Now AMD will be forced to investigate new ways of preventing chips being overclocked to stop this from happening again.
The article is not about discontinuing all spy satelites. It's about discontinuing the incredibly expensive stealth satelites, which our enemies *shouldn't* be able to identify the orbits of.
How long before people start subscribing to "computers"?
Why not have a reasonably fast system, all the software you need, broadband and tech support for "one low monthly fee". Whenever it gets obsolete someone appears and moves everything to a more recent system.
We "buy" cellphones that way, many people lease cars that way... sure it wont be popular here, but it'd work for most people.
I cant imagine how much tension you'd need to transfer that kind of energy over that kind of distance. That would surely require a very heavy cable.
Yes but Verizon will probably only provide FIOS in areas where it will yeild short/medium term profits.
It'll probably go into areas that already have some broadband services, instead of into areas with none.
I don't know the company off the top of my head, but I have a friend in Tampere who's appartment building was recently upgraded from 100Mbit to 1Gbit. That's shared bandwidth, but it stil works out faster than my 3Mbit cable.
Yeah but most of these features only work with POTS, and they had ISDN. After all when you've gotten used to 1sec dialup connection times it's hard to go back.
Naturally the various bells and cable cos love it when they can roll out broadband without any real capital investment.
Most people, like my parents, never saw the need for broadband, but now that they have 512k connections can't understand how they coped without them.
People won't want a faster connection until they've come to expect one, but presently that only includes those of us who've worked with networks in the acaedemic or corporate world.
At work i'll cancel a download that's under about 600kbytes/s and try to find a mirror - yet i remember when 3kbyte/s was revolutionary.
Still if company X says that a 1Mbit/s connection is blazingly fast broadband then 90% of people will eat it up and never disagree. So there's no incentive to do anything better - which is surely where the government should come in.
They happily build 10 lane highways, surely a good comm network is a natural extension of that.
Hmmm Japan has it, I know someone in Finland with it... yet when i call up comcast they don't even know what i'm talking about.
Sounds like the US and UK strategy is to squeeze as much as possible from our antiquated telephone and cable networks, and we'll worry about laying fiber some time later....
But it's probably not a 3Mb/3Mb connection either.
When your connection gets faster it becomes practical to mount disks on remote systems. I'm forced to do this sort of thing for work and it's pretty slow even when i'm only editing source files.
I also upload a number of large image files, and could always use this being faster.
It seems like this is a case of the 640k problem.
A lot of this is price related.
It's significantly cheaper for my parents to drop their second phone line and dialup service and switch to DSL. Equally though it hasn't been available until very recently.
Is that in the USA (and the UK) it seems that broadband is kinda-fast. Maybe maxing out at a few megabit/s.
Parts of the far east and scandinavia seem to have far faster connections already... yet in the west we are rolling out slow broadband services and haven't really got plans for higher speed ones.
This will restrict the possibilities for video on demand and similar services. Of course it's likely that comcast et al might want that...
Well the laptop in question has a failed battery, no networking capabilities, and is maxed out with 8MB ram. They keyboard is flaky and i think the floppy drive has failed.
A system of that spec is of limited use to anyone given that a desktop would be more useful and work better. However it's an ideal photoframe project since it has a 800x600 active-matrix lcd.
I've donated odd computers to schools or needy friends, but if i'm going to have to support it i'd rather give away something good.
I agree that it's no great hardware hack, but consider how difficult it is to interface with a mono lcd, i can't imagine investing that kind of effort for a digital picture frame.
If you aren't astute enough to configure your own network to avoid the things that bother you... then you probably aren't going to be too hot at managing other users.
I lived for a few years in an appartment in the UK where 5 very net-heavy users shared a 1024/256 connection. At one point i clocked 23 devices on our lan with over two hundred tcp sessions open, yet it very rarely felt slow.
Shape your overall connection so nothing is ever buffered on the cable modem. Then you can play games on your outbound queue.
SSH, VoIP and Game traffic can go straight to the front of the queue.
Web traffic probably comes next
P2P comes in about here
SMTP/POP/FTP can sit below that
Then you should be able to structure any remote backup tasks even lower...
Still any connection sharing is far better among people who realize that it's not your job. Sharing a connection with a non-tech-literate friend is usually a safe bet. You'd have to educate them about worms and p2p anyway, so having them running web + email through your connection is no biggie.
They might make you dinner once in a while.
And i can confirm that in Colorado at least every other gas station has diesel.
I have to watch carefully because here diesel has a green pump handle and unleaded is black - opposite from the uk.
The fact that i have two laptops rotting away in the garage is scrapping them.
One of them might work as a digital pic frame and that'd really give it new life instead...
This is one of those situations where i'd be really inclined to distrust it unless it were open source.
I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that all messages are logged and can be decryped by the appropriate authorities.
The move of offering "encryption over the internet" may be a carrot to discourage people from using aim/msn/icq/irc, while bringing conversations back to where they can be intercepted.
I think Trillian provides end to end encryption on top of standard messaging networks.
Well i choose to only work 40 hours most weeks. I can fill up my spare time with consulting work, or i can dabble around in stock photography, or i can spent time with my wife and family.
The other way to look as this is that tivo + lifetime subscription costs about the same as a decent HTPC box...
We had gusts up to 98mph earlier this week and my car looks as dirty as ever
The biggest thing about tivo is that IT JUST WORKS.
I've played around with snapstream and mythtv and they work ok, but getting reliable guide data can be a pain in the ass.
I know i spent more than 1 hour a month trying to keep snapstream running - hence tivo is cheap too.
If you can repair it yourself then it *might* be worth doing.
However it's unlikely that the problem will jump out at you, and modern tv's use fairly compact circuitry that'll not be easy to work with.
They may not finance your cloned cat, but they will finance your home.... most people should have some equity they can borrow against.