GPS does not transmit or "downcovert" to an IF frequency. The carrier IS the data.
Standard IF (for receiver/transmitters that do downconvert) is 70 MHz. If Passive re-radiation is a problem your SAW filter is out of tolerance... yes it needs to be calibrated... 10 MHz IS the standard frequency of your local oscillator (clock). Good digital RF communication requires a very accurate clock. A rubidium standard (nuclear clock) is common. Cesium Beam less common but used in higher data rate transmissions. price tag? $5-30k... now you know why it's expensive.
Opportunities for interference arises from harmonic frequencies bypassing a properly calibrated saw filter. You can't have a frequency planner on every flight and the FCC can't seem to do their jobs despite the BILLIONS they charge the telecom companies (indirectly taxing YOU). SO, no electronics while in flight...
Save your $$ Buy 3D Studio Max. Get good at it... be a starving artist... get great at it, get hired by Ion. If you have real talent, ID will hire you. If you are talented and don't want to make any money, NASA will hire you.
BTW: 3D Studio Max costs $2,700.00 computer not included. Every Barnes & Noble has an entire section of books dedicated to teaching you 3D Studio Max. There are a hundred times as many help books floating around as there are copies of Max in circulation.
Is hair just sharp bumps? Is there a limit how sharply convex a "bump" can be? Are we moving toward fractal geometry? big brushes for big objects, smaller brushes to add definition to the large brushes, bumps on the smallest brushes. Could fractal algorithms be used to generate complex shapes/textures without the standard 3D modeling technique of brushes + new bump mapping?
Intel needs to watch Transmetta and AMD not Apple. Intel uses a lame, dirty trick against Apple when they should be dealing with x86 competition. If M$ gets split, Apple will port its OS to x86. I'll bet Apple will hold a grudge and support 3Dnow!, Northbridge and instead of SMP, SSE instructions. Intel: do not bite the hand that may feed (or starve) you.
If they put a G4 on the space station with all the goodies then they better make the Intellimouse work with it.. Ever used a mouse with a ball upside down? Zero G the ball would just bounce in its cage. I'm sure NASA can get M$ to sell them an Intellimouse for $800.00.
Oh, to break the myth once and for all: The Army's 800.00 hammers were made of beryllium for use near klystrons. Beryllium is tougher than steel, nonferrous and very expensive. Since a klystron is made of glass, surrounded by a magnet that will suck in a normal tool falling within 2 feet of it and costs upwards of 8 grand... well the $800.00 hammer seems like a good deal all of the sudden.
You are right.. Alpha, introduced 3 years ago at a then stunning 450mhz when attempting to emulate x86 hardware was barely faster than a 200mhz Pentium pro. Any program with native support for Alpha is blazing fast. Seti@home is the perfect example. a 667mhz Alpha wil do a Seti unit in 57 minutes. A 1Ghz thunderbird Athalon takes 5 hours. The Crusoe also uses an x86 translator. The term "emulator" was given such a bad name by the Alpha that Transmetta will not use it. My old Alpha? 4.5 hours...
This all reminds me of Intel's recent promise of a 1Ghz laptop processor "blitz" (their word) before Christmas. Scorched thighs! I will not put a 60watt light bulb on my lap what makes them think I want a 60 watt processor there?!?!
With Microsoft breakup competition will drive innovation. If Apple ends up with an x86 OS (I like the term better than "Intel", AMD is in the picture providing some much needed competition now) then it will be good for us. The author expresses the classic conservative view of maintaining the status quo. Well, tough. Survival of the fittest be it Apple, Microsoft, Windows, Linux, BeOS, OS/2,Via, AMD, Intel, Transmetta, Motorola or anyone else who wants to compete to provide me the best product for my very hard earned cash. There are no downsides to competition even if it scares this guy a little. We win in the end.
Microwave Range in a Earth-Earth applications is inverse to data rate. Microwave frequency transmissions are blocked by absolutely any obstruction tree leaves, dust, heavy rain, etc. Exceptions to these rules: Troposcatter 3.5 to 5ghz at 2000+ watts can transmit T1 up to 200 miles.
All microwave transmission bit error rates can be improved using standard diversity techniques. Time diversity, sending the same data twice. Accomplished through forward error correction and literally using two transmitters/ receiver pairs with lag placed on the second transmission. Space diversity, using two transmitter/receiver pairs separated laterally relative to the transmission path (a Flock of birds flies across one transmission path but does not affect the other) Frequency diversity, again two transmitters or a single frequency hopping transmitter (ala CDMA cell phones).
Using two transmitters does not mean having to use more frequencies. Using the same frequencies but changing the polarization of your antenna provides 83 dB of attenuation between transmission paths. Ideally you would use several of these diversity methods to give you the most paths possible. your modem also must be smart enough not only to handle multiple redundant paths it must also decide what the "best" data bit is if two bits in the same frame from different paths are interpreted differently by the receivers.
My eyes gloss over when hackers discuss the linux kernel in minutiae. I'm sure you are all there now.
..is a corp speak term for any system that does what wintel machines do without stepping on any toes by saying "Heir to the functionality of the destop PC" or "Will completely replace Microsofts and Intel's strangle hold on the home PC market." Transmetta is kicking Wintel where it hurts. Laptops have been Intel's "Australia" (as in the game risk) Intel has heavy competition in the desktop market from AMD. Sun, Compaq etc. are slapping Intel on the other front server side. Transmetta is going to severely dent Intel's laptop profits. At the same time Transmetta is taking a chunk of Intel's profits you can bet they hired Linus to take a chunk out of M$ too. Goodbye Win CE and Win 9x on laptops. Say hello to x86 instruction set translators and Linux.
I am not as much pro-linux anti-wintel as I am pro competition. Have you priced laptops recently? I am not an ardent AMD fan but look at what a little competition has done to the desktop CPU market.
Intel PIII-933mhz $874.00 down $386.00 overnight because of AMD's 1Ghz T-bird release.
drop the price of every laptop by $386.00 because of transmetta and laptop prices start looking a little more sane.
I just don't understand why a small hot startup would want to avoid doing business with the gentle giant M$ (Sarcasm).
Pathfinder used aero braking and a drogue chute. Hello, the moon has no atmosphere... a bag of balloons wrapped around the retrans lander would not protect it without rockets to take the craft out of orbit and get it to near zero velocity in relation to the moons surface at a low altitude. time to check that triangle design that was perfect for pathfinder but would probably be inadequate for a moon shot. Remember to add the weight of fuel and engines for landing on the moon to the launch weight. Determine whether balloons, and the articulation method used to place pathfinder upright weigh more than the few ounces or pounds of fuel required to take the launder the last 10 meters to the surface of the moon.
Tracking one satellite with a GPS receiver will give you the correct time. Two will give you location. Three gives you altitude. More satellites improve accuracy. I have tracked as many as 11.
Someone finally told the president that most of the military never used the 128 bit encryption key used to give more precise location measurements. The only people who used it were the cruise missile guys. Yes, with the proper key a GPS can fly a missile into a 1m air duct. now everyone can fly a cruise missile into a 1 meter air duct. Yay. Since the average "civil use" does not require that kind of accuracy, I wonder why bother shutting down GPS encryption?
Since it was only a 128 bit key, perhaps it has already been cracked by anyone who might be considered a bad guy. I never assume the US would do anything for anything other than completely selfish reasons. Nice PR move to "out" your compromised security system worth billions of dollars for the good of mankind. Much better than to have some 13 year old kid hack your encryption algorithm and post it on the web.
Now if only the DVD consortium would realize (along with all you PGP using folks) that the goal of encrypting information "until evil no longer lurks in the hearts of men" is just a piece of fiction. Great fiction mind you (Cryptonomicon~Neal Stephenson).
Anyway, Use a map. Use a compass. Don't trust that 10 digit grid coordinate. A GPS tracking two satellites will put you 2 km inside Iraq when you should be 10 km inside Kuwait. Been there done that bought the T-shirt... ran like hell.
You are right.. The first undersea fiber, called TAT8, was placed in 1988. It has regenerators every 79 km. Compared to TAT1, the first transatlantic communications cable (copper), TAT8 is a real workhorse. TAT8 can handle in 2 days the same traffic carried by TAT1 in 22 years of operation. TAT8 contains 6 fiber strands. 2 pair are lit and one pair is dormant. Distance required between repeaters is a function of the light source used. For a LAN type system, modems and repeaters using conventional LED's can achieve distances up to 2 km. for commercial bandwidth and range requirements, lasers are used. There are apparently fiber doping processes that can entirely eliminate repeaters on transcontinental cable runs when used in conjunction with certain frequency lasers. However since the existing fiber infrastructure was incredibly expensive to install most current technologies are geared toward getting more out of what is already in place.
Am I the only person who at first glance thought that is what it said? Why did I expect to see something like that on/.?
The Science Of Planet Destruction
Posted by emmett on Thursday March 30, @04:38PM from the inspector-detector dept. Black Dog writes: "It seems like we're hearing about the 'Extra-Solar Planet of the Week" lately. I thought it might be useful for everyone to bone up on planet destruction techniques. Two of JPL's projects are at: The Terrestrial Planet Finder and techniques for planet destruction."
"the JPL has positioned 7 nuclear charges in a parabolic pattern inside the moon. When detonated the bombs will form an explosive 'lens.' This lens will turn the iron core of the moon into an explosively formed projectile. while JPL hopes to position the Iron core at a LaGrange point for later use as raw materials for a space station, they could miscalculate it's trajectory (as they have done with how many mars missions now?) and send it hurtling toward the earth."
We read everyone's posts and click their references. We saturate ourselves in the subject and post ONLY when we have something new to add to the discussion.
I think there are over a hundred thousand registered users. At an average of around 250 posts, less than.25% of the users are posting to a given story..
Most of us ARE asking, reading and not posting. If your threshold is set high enough you are probably only reading the posts of the experts in a very specific field that pertains to the story.
Visit any story ever posted on slashdot with your threshold maxed out and you will find some guys that are so damn smart and informative you would think the story was written about their own research. In some cases it is!
There are stories about quake that Carmack has posted to.
Jedi: from "The force is strong in this one" to "more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
Although there was cybernetic augmentation whether there was better than human cybernetic augmentation is open to speculation.. e.g. Cyberpunk 2020
Alien growth/power building... such as the more you fight the stronger you get without a limit... or hive structure where you play a "swarm" that grows in members with combined power to rival other sorts.
Fighter pilots? better and better fighters?
To make it Jedicentric would disembowel a potentially rich and diverse universe.
Perhaps "more powerful than you can possibly imagine" could be used as a good anti player killer. If someone killed you, you could then temporarily pass all or double your power to the next opponent they fought. Insures they at least have to give up their own life to take yours.
You will never need more than 640k of ram. Think of all the storage potential wasted during Christmas. That's it. I'm putting my foot down. All packages are to be tied up in string. Let's see... buy out 3M, Dupont and General Mills.. The entire amazon for hemp and every cotton field in the US... Ah, a string and tape monopoly! I WILL OWN CHRISTMAS! Santa will grovel at my feet. Natalie Portman will prostrate herself before me naked and petrified. All those miscreant Slashdotters will have cold grits and a lump of coal. Bwuhaahahahaha....
My first edict as master of the known universe: Since you are all filthy and unclean, you must all change your underwear at least four times a day. With the help of my good friends at the NSA, we will be checking. To assist in our observations you must all wear your underwear outside your pants.
I've always known my Windows Monopolating System(tm) Would take me places mere mortals would never dream of. I have even done what the grinch could not do.
I think Cisco has terabit optical routers in the works. Nortel has an all optical switch that could handle this and 5 trunks just like it. I'm sure since it's Lucent's baby they have something for it too.
Consider this: These signals from a switch's standpoint are not multiplexed. They enter the switch as 40mb trunks. Not a problem for a modern switch.
The hard part is a repeater every 100km. Can't sink this cable under water you need a repeater and power source every 100km. Your data travels halfway around the world? It gets recieved, buffered and retransmitted 200 times during the trip. Great throughput high latency. The beauty of fibre had been low latency "it sounds like you are right next door" and no noise/interference/path loss "pin drop"
This news story here suggest the FBI suffered a DDOS attack. More likely a hundred thousand slashdotters decided to download all those PDF files "none more than 6 megs." CmdrTaco's FBI file just got a little longer.
Assuming this device would work (I'm certain it doesn't) here is a potential application:
Place two nuclear clocks at different altitudes and therefore under different accelerations in respect to the Earth's center of gravity. This was done by the airforce with two Rubidium standard clocks accurate to within 10-13 seconds. One clock was in a plane at 30 thousand feet for a few hours. The other was at sea level. The clock on the ground had run slower than the clock in the air. This demonstrated that time does slow down under greater accelerations. This also explains how the speed of light remains constant regardless of the observers acceleration. Since an observer traveling at near the speed of light has a drastically reduced time reference, light say, from a flashlight, still jumps forward from its source in respect to the observer. With modern nuclear clocks such as the cesium beam clock accurate to within 10-17 seconds an extreme altitude variance is not required to achieve an observable effect.
The experiment I propose is to use some sort of FTL communications technique as a constant frame of reference between two clocks placed at different altitudes. The purpose of course is to find gravity waves. Since a "wave" in gravity should produce a surge in relative time, an FTL frame of reference would detect gravity waves.
For all our accomplishments we are still trapped inside the universe attempting to discover the nature of our cage. Any sort of FTL communication would give us a perspective on our prison from "outside" the universe. Plato had more insight than he knew.
We are all computer people so we all hopefully know that regardless of the format information is carried in it is still the same information....---... is SOS as much as 010100110100111101010011 or 53, 4F, 53. Everything physical is subject to entropy. People die, the universe winds down, everything loses complexity. But somehow life seems to break this rule. Life gets more complex with the passage of time. From the first single cell bad ass to you reading this is a fantastic assault on the law of entropy. Except that life is a manifestation of the information carried by DNA. Information is not a physical thing. Information is carried by physical things but is not itself physical. That is why life seems to break entropy every chance it gets.
There is another side to this. The/. effect. Too much information is just so much white noise. The moderation system combined with setting your threshold again brings order where there was once just chaos.
So, it really is a philosophical question as to whether information can break entropy. But if information can break entropy, there are other obstacles not far behind. The conservation of matter and energy. The speed of light.
Yes, information is carried by physical energy and matter. At the same time information has transcended its confines in the form of life. The information carried by your DNA and mine is a billion years old. Suns have had shorter life spans.
So regardless of whether FTL communication, if even possible, comes in the form of spooky action at a distance or a nutcase with an antenna, the view from outside the universe must be spectacular. Welcom to the TOH and knowledge singularity. To think that they are trying to build a quantum computer when they could have the TOH instead. The shame of it reminds me of another "my processor is better than yours" battle going on.
Alright a little heavy on Philosophy. Join me next week when I decide to launch a new startup to manufacture those IBM toys...
What part of my cell phone bill goes straight to the US government? The FCC is part of the executive branch but the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, composed of 18 senators, has oversight. bandwidth is a natural resource. It belongs to the people. Why am I paying for something I own? I already pay to keep the government running. In fact I just did my taxes to the tune of about $8,000. I have no problem with paying my taxes because I have representation in DC. I vote. But if the FCC allows a company to re-sell bandwidth I am getting billed extra for something I already own without representation. Anytime the government mandates that money comes out of my pocket I am getting taxed. Mandatory Insurance is taxation. As we have seen, Insurance is ridiculously expensive. Because it is mandatory and I have no representation within the insurance companies. I have no representation within Sprint PCS either. But you need communication just like you need insurance. Watch the cost go up to the consumers. Watch us pay for it like cattle going to slaughter. Or write your congressman if he is on the Subcommittee that has some oversight of the FCC.
Read "Panati's Guide to the end of Everything". It includes a dissertation on the common influenza virus (the flu) which in 1918 killed one fifth of the worlds population. Of course there was a war on so millions of soldiers dying was the news of the day while tens of millions of ordinary people died of the flu. The BS about a virus not killing off its hosts because that would not be an evolutionarily adaptive trait is bogus because most viruses can infect several different species of hosts. If I am a virus and infect cats and dogs I don't loose by killing every dog on the planet because that just eliminates my favorite host's primary predator. Oh, but I had my flu shot. No, that is the flu shot from the flu roaming the other hemisphere 6 months ago. It was winter there and Flu season was in full swing. That strain was injected into eggs which cultured it for your vaccine 6 months later. Now if the virus drastically changes it's attack methods, which it is prone to do and did in 1918, the vaccine you got will be completely ineffective and a new one will not be available for quite some time. Keep in mind that enough vaccine for 6 billion people must be made. Given the fact Somalia has a 99% vaccination rate provided by the USA while USA children have an 87% vaccination rate, I will not rate your chances of living very high.
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Standard IF (for receiver/transmitters that do downconvert) is 70 MHz. If Passive re-radiation is a problem your SAW filter is out of tolerance... yes it needs to be calibrated... 10 MHz IS the standard frequency of your local oscillator (clock). Good digital RF communication requires a very accurate clock. A rubidium standard (nuclear clock) is common. Cesium Beam less common but used in higher data rate transmissions. price tag? $5-30k... now you know why it's expensive.
Opportunities for interference arises from harmonic frequencies bypassing a properly calibrated saw filter. You can't have a frequency planner on every flight and the FCC can't seem to do their jobs despite the BILLIONS they charge the telecom companies (indirectly taxing YOU). SO, no electronics while in flight...
BTW: 3D Studio Max costs $2,700.00 computer not included. Every Barnes & Noble has an entire section of books dedicated to teaching you 3D Studio Max. There are a hundred times as many help books floating around as there are copies of Max in circulation.
Oh, to break the myth once and for all: The Army's 800.00 hammers were made of beryllium for use near klystrons. Beryllium is tougher than steel, nonferrous and very expensive. Since a klystron is made of glass, surrounded by a magnet that will suck in a normal tool falling within 2 feet of it and costs upwards of 8 grand... well the $800.00 hammer seems like a good deal all of the sudden.
This all reminds me of Intel's recent promise of a 1Ghz laptop processor "blitz" (their word) before Christmas. Scorched thighs! I will not put a 60watt light bulb on my lap what makes them think I want a 60 watt processor there?!?!
With Microsoft breakup competition will drive innovation. If Apple ends up with an x86 OS (I like the term better than "Intel", AMD is in the picture providing some much needed competition now) then it will be good for us. The author expresses the classic conservative view of maintaining the status quo. Well, tough. Survival of the fittest be it Apple, Microsoft, Windows, Linux, BeOS, OS/2,Via, AMD, Intel, Transmetta, Motorola or anyone else who wants to compete to provide me the best product for my very hard earned cash. There are no downsides to competition even if it scares this guy a little. We win in the end.
Now if only I had read the article on Daikatana before.. never mind I didn't buy it nope... not me...
I'm smarter than that..
Really..
No, really!
All microwave transmission bit error rates can be improved using standard diversity techniques. Time diversity, sending the same data twice. Accomplished through forward error correction and literally using two transmitters/ receiver pairs with lag placed on the second transmission. Space diversity, using two transmitter/receiver pairs separated laterally relative to the transmission path (a Flock of birds flies across one transmission path but does not affect the other) Frequency diversity, again two transmitters or a single frequency hopping transmitter (ala CDMA cell phones).
Using two transmitters does not mean having to use more frequencies. Using the same frequencies but changing the polarization of your antenna provides 83 dB of attenuation between transmission paths. Ideally you would use several of these diversity methods to give you the most paths possible. your modem also must be smart enough not only to handle multiple redundant paths it must also decide what the "best" data bit is if two bits in the same frame from different paths are interpreted differently by the receivers.
My eyes gloss over when hackers discuss the linux kernel in minutiae. I'm sure you are all there now.
..is a corp speak term for any system that does what wintel machines do without stepping on any toes by saying "Heir to the functionality of the destop PC" or "Will completely replace Microsofts and Intel's strangle hold on the home PC market." Transmetta is kicking Wintel where it hurts. Laptops have been Intel's "Australia" (as in the game risk) Intel has heavy competition in the desktop market from AMD. Sun, Compaq etc. are slapping Intel on the other front server side. Transmetta is going to severely dent Intel's laptop profits. At the same time Transmetta is taking a chunk of Intel's profits you can bet they hired Linus to take a chunk out of M$ too. Goodbye Win CE and Win 9x on laptops. Say hello to x86 instruction set translators and Linux.
I am not as much pro-linux anti-wintel as I am pro competition. Have you priced laptops recently? I am not an ardent AMD fan but look at what a little competition has done to the desktop CPU market.
Intel PIII-933mhz $874.00 down $386.00 overnight because of AMD's 1Ghz T-bird release.
drop the price of every laptop by $386.00 because of transmetta and laptop prices start looking a little more sane.
I just don't understand why a small hot startup would want to avoid doing business with the gentle giant M$ (Sarcasm).
Tracking one satellite with a GPS receiver will give you the correct time. Two will give you location. Three gives you altitude. More satellites improve accuracy. I have tracked as many as 11.
Someone finally told the president that most of the military never used the 128 bit encryption key used to give more precise location measurements. The only people who used it were the cruise missile guys. Yes, with the proper key a GPS can fly a missile into a 1m air duct. now everyone can fly a cruise missile into a 1 meter air duct. Yay. Since the average "civil use" does not require that kind of accuracy, I wonder why bother shutting down GPS encryption?
Since it was only a 128 bit key, perhaps it has already been cracked by anyone who might be considered a bad guy. I never assume the US would do anything for anything other than completely selfish reasons. Nice PR move to "out" your compromised security system worth billions of dollars for the good of mankind. Much better than to have some 13 year old kid hack your encryption algorithm and post it on the web.
Now if only the DVD consortium would realize (along with all you PGP using folks) that the goal of encrypting information "until evil no longer lurks in the hearts of men" is just a piece of fiction. Great fiction mind you (Cryptonomicon~Neal Stephenson).
Anyway, Use a map. Use a compass. Don't trust that 10 digit grid coordinate. A GPS tracking two satellites will put you 2 km inside Iraq when you should be 10 km inside Kuwait. Been there done that bought the T-shirt... ran like hell.
You are right.. The first undersea fiber, called TAT8, was placed in 1988. It has regenerators every 79 km. Compared to TAT1, the first transatlantic communications cable (copper), TAT8 is a real workhorse. TAT8 can handle in 2 days the same traffic carried by TAT1 in 22 years of operation. TAT8 contains 6 fiber strands. 2 pair are lit and one pair is dormant. Distance required between repeaters is a function of the light source used. For a LAN type system, modems and repeaters using conventional LED's can achieve distances up to 2 km. for commercial bandwidth and range requirements, lasers are used. There are apparently fiber doping processes that can entirely eliminate repeaters on transcontinental cable runs when used in conjunction with certain frequency lasers. However since the existing fiber infrastructure was incredibly expensive to install most current technologies are geared toward getting more out of what is already in place.
Am I the only person who at first glance thought that is what it said? Why did I expect to see something like that on /.?
The Science Of Planet Destruction
Posted by emmett on Thursday March 30, @04:38PM
from the inspector-detector dept.
Black Dog writes: "It seems like we're hearing about the 'Extra-Solar Planet of the Week" lately. I thought it might be useful for everyone to bone up on planet destruction techniques. Two of JPL's projects are at: The Terrestrial Planet Finder and techniques for planet destruction."
"the JPL has positioned 7 nuclear charges in a parabolic pattern inside the moon. When detonated the bombs will form an explosive 'lens.' This lens will turn the iron core of the moon into an explosively formed projectile. while JPL hopes to position the Iron core at a LaGrange point for later use as raw materials for a space station, they could miscalculate it's trajectory (as they have done with how many mars missions now?) and send it hurtling toward the earth."
This is simple:
.25% of the users are posting to a given story..
We read everyone's posts and click their references. We saturate ourselves in the subject and post ONLY when we have something new to add to the discussion.
I think there are over a hundred thousand registered users. At an average of around 250 posts, less than
Most of us ARE asking, reading and not posting. If your threshold is set high enough you are probably only reading the posts of the experts in a very specific field that pertains to the story.
Visit any story ever posted on slashdot with your threshold maxed out and you will find some guys that are so damn smart and informative you would think the story was written about their own research. In some cases it is!
There are stories about quake that Carmack has posted to.
The film industry WILL make this movie.
I'm sure they'll listen to reason.
CmdrTaco, Take off your cloths and show hollywood your butt.
Paths to proficiency:
Bots: Agriculture bot to IG88
Normal humans: slaves to Han Solo
Jedi: from "The force is strong in this one" to "more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
Although there was cybernetic augmentation whether there was better than human cybernetic augmentation is open to speculation.. e.g. Cyberpunk 2020
Alien growth/power building... such as the more you fight the stronger you get without a limit... or hive structure where you play a "swarm" that grows in members with combined power to rival other sorts.
Fighter pilots? better and better fighters?
To make it Jedicentric would disembowel a potentially rich and diverse universe.
Perhaps "more powerful than you can possibly imagine" could be used as a good anti player killer. If someone killed you, you could then temporarily pass all or double your power to the next opponent they fought. Insures they at least have to give up their own life to take yours.
My first edict as master of the known universe: Since you are all filthy and unclean, you must all change your underwear at least four times a day. With the help of my good friends at the NSA, we will be checking. To assist in our observations you must all wear your underwear outside your pants.
I've always known my Windows Monopolating System(tm) Would take me places mere mortals would never dream of. I have even done what the grinch could not do.
(Be glad he is ruthless but not crazy)
Consider this: These signals from a switch's standpoint are not multiplexed. They enter the switch as 40mb trunks. Not a problem for a modern switch.
The hard part is a repeater every 100km. Can't sink this cable under water you need a repeater and power source every 100km. Your data travels halfway around the world? It gets recieved, buffered and retransmitted 200 times during the trip. Great throughput high latency. The beauty of fibre had been low latency "it sounds like you are right next door" and no noise/interference/path loss "pin drop"
Place two nuclear clocks at different altitudes and therefore under different accelerations in respect to the Earth's center of gravity. This was done by the airforce with two Rubidium standard clocks accurate to within 10-13 seconds. One clock was in a plane at 30 thousand feet for a few hours. The other was at sea level. The clock on the ground had run slower than the clock in the air. This demonstrated that time does slow down under greater accelerations. This also explains how the speed of light remains constant regardless of the observers acceleration. Since an observer traveling at near the speed of light has a drastically reduced time reference, light say, from a flashlight, still jumps forward from its source in respect to the observer. With modern nuclear clocks such as the cesium beam clock accurate to within 10-17 seconds an extreme altitude variance is not required to achieve an observable effect.
The experiment I propose is to use some sort of FTL communications technique as a constant frame of reference between two clocks placed at different altitudes. The purpose of course is to find gravity waves. Since a "wave" in gravity should produce a surge in relative time, an FTL frame of reference would detect gravity waves.
For all our accomplishments we are still trapped inside the universe attempting to discover the nature of our cage. Any sort of FTL communication would give us a perspective on our prison from "outside" the universe. Plato had more insight than he knew.
We are all computer people so we all hopefully know that regardless of the format information is carried in it is still the same information. ...---... is SOS as much as 010100110100111101010011 or 53, 4F, 53. Everything physical is subject to entropy. People die, the universe winds down, everything loses complexity. But somehow life seems to break this rule. Life gets more complex with the passage of time. From the first single cell bad ass to you reading this is a fantastic assault on the law of entropy. Except that life is a manifestation of the information carried by DNA. Information is not a physical thing. Information is carried by physical things but is not itself physical. That is why life seems to break entropy every chance it gets.
There is another side to this. The /. effect. Too much information is just so much white noise. The moderation system combined with setting your threshold again brings order where there was once just chaos.
So, it really is a philosophical question as to whether information can break entropy. But if information can break entropy, there are other obstacles not far behind. The conservation of matter and energy. The speed of light.
Yes, information is carried by physical energy and matter. At the same time information has transcended its confines in the form of life. The information carried by your DNA and mine is a billion years old. Suns have had shorter life spans.
So regardless of whether FTL communication, if even possible, comes in the form of spooky action at a distance or a nutcase with an antenna, the view from outside the universe must be spectacular. Welcom to the TOH and knowledge singularity. To think that they are trying to build a quantum computer when they could have the TOH instead. The shame of it reminds me of another "my processor is better than yours" battle going on.
Alright a little heavy on Philosophy. Join me next week when I decide to launch a new startup to manufacture those IBM toys...