My mother called me a parasite, lazy bum, to-be-welfare recipient, a cancerous leech, etc. etc. That was *after* I was diagnosed for ADD, because she didn't believe I had it despite being a psychiatrist.
I think it's sad to hear that Flash will only reach 4 TB in 10 years, after which it will have finally caught up to HDD sizes of this year. So it will perpetually be behind 10 years, and continue to degrade in performance. Great.
The heck? Video cards? Games are developed for consoles. WTH do video cards have to do with scale? And are you capable of running Crysis at 60 fps at Enthusiast settings on a 7970?
Samsung managed 1 Gbit at 58 nm in February 2011. The rest of the alternatives are significantly lower density than even PRAM. Not particularly promising IMO.
I was kind of hoping we'd have something better than NAND Flash within 5 or so years. Maybe something using memristors? NAND is just too expensive to be useful. Prices haven't dropped in a couple years.
Anyways, the guy is an idiot because rural infrastructure does pay for itself. The telephone lines were paid off an eon ago. The difference is it takes longer to cover the initial capital outlay before experiencing a ROI, when compared to an urban environment. So instead of one decade it might take 2 decades. But that's the whole point of government building it out. The government can wait 20 years to pay it off.
Fairpoint did not go through bankruptcy. Verizon used a shady trick called the "Reverse Morris Trust" to offload their debt. The only reason Fairpoint would take that, IMO, is that their executive board did backroom deals with Verizon to ensure they had a cozy future after they left the rural telco's board.
Look, you're an idiot. Once you've built out the lines, rural infrastructure maintenance is tiny. It's quite possible to make a profit, but you need patience because covering initial capital outlaw will require more than a decade. The phone infrastructure built to rural lands was paid for a long, long, LONG time ago with subscriber revenue. Subsidization isn't necessary. The USF is mostly just a government handout to AT&T and Verizon.
AT&T spends $3.5 billion annually in OPEX. That is set to decrease significantly with the move to all-IP networks. By "significantly" I mean "holy mother of cow we are saving BILLIONS every year" a lot.
Heh India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Age and experience has given the culture a willingness the ability to slow down and wait. Kind of like those living trees in LOTR.
I'm not sure how it would work out if we federally legislated vacation time. Would that force the ultra wealthy to give up some of their money to pay for that time off, or would wages just be lowered further than their current rock bottom rates?
Uh... no. Technology enables companies to save money. There's no reason for them to pass that saved money onto you. Witness AT&T's landline 150 GB cap on DSL, despite exponentially increasing bandwidth availability in the core networks.
Or the institution of 2 GB caps on wireless instead of unlimited, despite going from 3G to 4G.
actually Google is doing the same thing with voip, pushing others out of the market by subsidizing free calls to the us and canada with Google talk. now they're using Motorola's frand patents to push apple out of the market, although the EU wont allow them to do it.
you can't deny Google is forcing their Google+ results where more relevant results should be. or that they dumped android onto the mobile market, forcing webos and Meego out of the market. they offered Google maps API for free, pushing out competitors, and now that they have dominant marketshare they're charging businesses for it.
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It's called hyperfocus you idiot.
Heh... I tried doing med school without medicine for ADD. That didn't work out so well.
No I need it just to do anything complex with my brain. Anything that requires mental effort immediately makes me sleepy or incredibly distracted.
My mother called me a parasite, lazy bum, to-be-welfare recipient, a cancerous leech, etc. etc. That was *after* I was diagnosed for ADD, because she didn't believe I had it despite being a psychiatrist.
Ah the good old days.
Strattera isn't a stimulant and is mostly ineffective in treating ADHD.
I think it's sad to hear that Flash will only reach 4 TB in 10 years, after which it will have finally caught up to HDD sizes of this year. So it will perpetually be behind 10 years, and continue to degrade in performance. Great.
The heck? Video cards? Games are developed for consoles. WTH do video cards have to do with scale? And are you capable of running Crysis at 60 fps at Enthusiast settings on a 7970?
They all have much lower densities. The highest is PRAM at 1 Gbit with a 58 nm process, demonstrated by Samsung in February 2011. That's way too low.
Samsung managed 1 Gbit at 58 nm in February 2011. The rest of the alternatives are significantly lower density than even PRAM. Not particularly promising IMO.
HDD tech has advanced without patent litigation tying anything up. What makes you think it will be different for NAND's successor?
I was kind of hoping we'd have something better than NAND Flash within 5 or so years. Maybe something using memristors? NAND is just too expensive to be useful. Prices haven't dropped in a couple years.
You mean WP7?
Has it occurred to you it's easy to build large houses in suburban and rural areas?
And what does any of this have to do with the bottom 40% who are so poor they don't even earn enough income to pay federal taxes?
Anyways, the guy is an idiot because rural infrastructure does pay for itself. The telephone lines were paid off an eon ago. The difference is it takes longer to cover the initial capital outlay before experiencing a ROI, when compared to an urban environment. So instead of one decade it might take 2 decades. But that's the whole point of government building it out. The government can wait 20 years to pay it off.
Fairpoint did not go through bankruptcy. Verizon used a shady trick called the "Reverse Morris Trust" to offload their debt. The only reason Fairpoint would take that, IMO, is that their executive board did backroom deals with Verizon to ensure they had a cozy future after they left the rural telco's board.
Look, you're an idiot. Once you've built out the lines, rural infrastructure maintenance is tiny. It's quite possible to make a profit, but you need patience because covering initial capital outlaw will require more than a decade. The phone infrastructure built to rural lands was paid for a long, long, LONG time ago with subscriber revenue. Subsidization isn't necessary. The USF is mostly just a government handout to AT&T and Verizon.
You realize they're going to sell it over the period from 2013-2018?
AT&T spends $3.5 billion annually in OPEX. That is set to decrease significantly with the move to all-IP networks. By "significantly" I mean "holy mother of cow we are saving BILLIONS every year" a lot.
Heh India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Age and experience has given the culture a willingness the ability to slow down and wait. Kind of like those living trees in LOTR.
I'm not sure how it would work out if we federally legislated vacation time. Would that force the ultra wealthy to give up some of their money to pay for that time off, or would wages just be lowered further than their current rock bottom rates?
Where do you crazy people get the idea everyone is buying "mcmansions" and "SUV's"? I just don't understand where comments like that come from.
Uh... no. Technology enables companies to save money. There's no reason for them to pass that saved money onto you. Witness AT&T's landline 150 GB cap on DSL, despite exponentially increasing bandwidth availability in the core networks.
Or the institution of 2 GB caps on wireless instead of unlimited, despite going from 3G to 4G.
actually Google is doing the same thing with voip, pushing others out of the market by subsidizing free calls to the us and canada with Google talk. now they're using Motorola's frand patents to push apple out of the market, although the EU wont allow them to do it.
you can't deny Google is forcing their Google+ results where more relevant results should be. or that they dumped android onto the mobile market, forcing webos and Meego out of the market. they offered Google maps API for free, pushing out competitors, and now that they have dominant marketshare they're charging businesses for it.
So you *are* a baby boomer. Kind of figured.