Ars has a review of a cellular modem that provides 2.4 megabits / second downsteam and 153 kilobits / second upsteam... and it works! Check it out
That's the optimal, best-case, never-gonna-see-it-in-real-life (unless you're testing the system before it's released to the public) speed. In real life use you'll be sharing with everyone else on the cell, just like a neighborhood of cable modems.
From the article: Which brings us to the next point: that 2.4 Mbps is shared among all users on a cell sector, just like cable bandwidth is shared by everyone in a neighborhood. What's a sector, then? Cell sites are generally divided into three sectors that each cover different parts of the surrounding area, so each site can have up to 7.2 Mbps of bandwidth to play with.
And FWIW, latency: Round trip times were in the 110-120 ms range on average, with the minimum I recorded coming in a bit under 80 ms.
There goes 15 years of my loyalty as an HP customer down the drain in one shot.
If 15 years of customer loyalty can be destroyed by not finding a web page you were looking for, perhaps you weren't as loyal as a customer as you thought you were.
Danny's code probably will be easier to extend and modify, and likely will have a longer lifespan, because of its compactness.
Ah, yes. Such as this "compact" solution to the n-queens contest: int v,i,j,k,l,s,a[99];main(){for(scanf("%d",&s);*a-s;v =a[j*=v]-a[i],k=i=s*k&&
++a[--i]);printf("\n\n");} Very easy to extend and modify, no?
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Strange, but when I play Quake or other online games my palms don't get sweaty at all. Instead, they get ice cold, like my blood circulation has slowed or something. Am I just weird or does this happen to anyone else?
I have to wonder why this was moderated -1, Troll. There's a distinct difference between someone trolling for religious flames and someone making a clear point with sarcasm, and I was doing the latter.
Go ahead, -1 me away, I've got more karma than you've got moderator points.
Take, for example, the corporatist American and European companies happily selling blocking software to countries like China and Saudi Arabia so their governments can pervert the Net to deny their citizens basic freedoms.
Since when is Internet access is a "basic freedom"? By your reasoning, would cell phones would also be a basic freedom? No! The concept of the ability to freely communicate doesn't lie in technology, it lies in people.
Technology is not necessarily a means to your open utopia. Like any other object, it brings with it its own problems and burdens. The world is not governed by technology, it is governed by humans, who in turn are governed by greed, fear, and the emotions that have governed them for thousands of years. Do not think that the existance of some gadgets will bring about your open world. If it does happen, it will be brought about by people.
and perform a billion operations per second with 99.8 percent accuracy.
Sounds like the thing is one giant FDIV operation.
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You can find more information about this unit on Amazon. The first generation of this unit needed some help, but this one seems to have gotten the problems fixed.
Whenever I hear someone* declare something to be dead, it's a good indication that it'll be around for another hundred years or so. Yeah, the desktop metaphor is dead, just like paper is dead.
* Someone refers to the researcher who's inevitably researching what he thinks will supercede what he's declaring dead.
Singh's The Code Book has a good section on Babbage. Contrary to your portrayal of Babbage as a genius whose work floundered when he couldn't get funding, Babbage had a reputation as someone who wasn't a finisher. Granted, some money to help build his second difference engine certainly would've helped, but the investors were already less-than-impressed with the first difference engine, and Babbage himself had other projects he was working on. The blame shouldn't fall wholly on the shoulders of the British government.
The reporter seems to interpret it negatively because Fortune 1000 companies aren't dumping Microsoft 100% and going for Linux. But interpret it as you will.
The double standard on Slashdot is hard to believe. If my neighbor Joe installs Red Hat Linux, Slashdot is first to post a story about it. But when a bona fide story comes out saying Linux isn't gaining as much marketplace acceptance as everyone thought it was, we all rush to find reasons why the report is wrong.
There's a big difference between, as Michael puts it, "dumping Microsoft 100%," and, as the Goldman Sachs analyst stated, "with Linux...virtually not registering on our survey." But interpret it as you will.
I apologize in advance because this long-winded post is certain to wind up being moderated off-topic, but I think your comment raises a serious issue that's at the base of Slashdot.
Slashdot culture, and to a large extent tech/geek culture in general, shares a big slice with the society of anti-establishmentarians (what a horrible word, BTW). For whatever reasons (and everyone has their own), a large group of Slashdotters would rather see the establishment torn down than to ally themselves with it.
I know people who think this way, and I undertsand the idea, but I disagree with it. There is a lot more to be gained by changing a system from within than by ripping the entire thing down and starting over. (For the sake of the argument I'll ignore the obvious long-term benefits of an all-out revolution.) The anti-globalism movement that Katz writes about, and draws 1000-comment articles from, could do a lot more good by having its ragged protestors attend a university and rising within a company than by hurling molotov cocktails at its gates.
With regard to Linux vs. Windows, even Linus said, "Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do?" I'll tell you what they'll do: they'll get mad at some small detail within the newly-established culture and use it as a reason to launch another jihad against it. Because that's what they like to do. They're not interested in actually doing anything themselves, they just like to protest things others have done.
To a large degree they behave like children. When faced with a problem, adults will evaluate the system they live in and make decisions within that system to solve the problem. Children, on the other hand, whine and throw temper tantrums until some resolution is reached--the parent relents or the child is disciplined. In these cases, we're seeing a bunch of petulant children throwing a fit because someone has offended their ideals and they feel justified in running through the streets assaulting people because of it.
So how does this relate to the Athlon? There's a sense of forgiveness on Slashdot for the new Athlon XP naming system. "Yes, it's wrong," the average Slashdotter might say, "but they had to do it to fight against Intel." So it's okay for the underdog to play dirty, but had Intel invented this naming procedure they would've been villified on Slashdot from day one. And if Athlon eventually gets the upper hand in the chip war and Intel becomes the underdog, expect a switch of allegience from the disestablishmentarians simply because Intel is no longer the establishment. That is the definitive danger of this thought process. No one can ever rise to the top because the moment that they do, they become the new establishment.
Make sure that you're not confusing your BMW oil change dash light with the one for a Type I/II inspection, which is usually every 15,000 miles. Oil usually needs changing every 3 - 5,000 miles, even in BMW's.
Some guy claiming deja vu and a 97.3% chance--and how did we arrive at that magical figure, Mr. Jones?--gets moderated insightful?! Moderation on Slashdot is at an all time low.
I think we should be able to filter comments in ways other than by score. For example, I'd like to see all Informative + Interesting comments posted, or all Funny comments posted to an article.
And I think that we should create a new type of comment posting: Informed. People wishing to post informed comments would need to take a short quiz about the story, prepared by the story author. This would infer that they either read the story link (I have a deja vu feeling that 97.3% of/. readers don't) or are knowledgeable enough about the field in question. Slashdot is so wonderful to read because of those nuggets of postings from informed readers, but it's getting harder and harder to blast through the tons of worthless bedrock to get to them...
I know it's fun to talk on/. about how cool PC, chips and gadgets are. It's nice to have new stuff, and it's nice to have cool stuff. "A cell phone that will play my MP3 files with a garage door opener and streaming wireless video? Cool!"
But I work in the embedded systems sector. It's the plumbing of world industry, and it's not cool. There are a lot of factors when it comes to embedded systems, but the number one factor is "cheap." Systems must be built cheap. (I'm ignoring reliability and other factors for the sake of the argument.) That means 486's and Pentiums, not the bleeding edge of 2GHz cool chips. Code is written in assembly, C and uncool languages, not Java and Perl. OS's include VxWorks, pSOS, LynxOS and DOS. Not cool ones like OS X, XP, etc.
My point is that it's nice for Transmeta to get into the embedded market, and I hope that they do well, but the "that would be cool" posters don't have a clue about how to make it happen, and neither will statements by Transmeta CEO Mark Allen, like "by this time next year, it could equal the notebook market." This industry is dominated by players that have been there for 30+ years, and if Transmeta wants to make a mark--as it seems they must if they're going to stay alive--they better have a pretty compelling offering in the works.
Before all you flamers start flaming away about the evils of censorship without even reading the source:
From the article
The software doesn't censor which sites a student can visit on the Internet. Instead, a professor can choose whether classes have access to the entire Internet or just the school's internal network. Professors can also block out e-mail and instant messaging.
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To put it in your sentence, "Humbly submit the question [as to why such and such...]"
Thanks for posting that really current world record.
That's the optimal, best-case, never-gonna-see-it-in-real-life (unless you're testing the system before it's released to the public) speed. In real life use you'll be sharing with everyone else on the cell, just like a neighborhood of cable modems.
From the article: Which brings us to the next point: that 2.4 Mbps is shared among all users on a cell sector, just like cable bandwidth is shared by everyone in a neighborhood. What's a sector, then? Cell sites are generally divided into three sectors that each cover different parts of the surrounding area, so each site can have up to 7.2 Mbps of bandwidth to play with.
And FWIW, latency: Round trip times were in the 110-120 ms range on average, with the minimum I recorded coming in a bit under 80 ms.
If 15 years of customer loyalty can be destroyed by not finding a web page you were looking for, perhaps you weren't as loyal as a customer as you thought you were.
Ah, yes. Such as this "compact" solution to the n-queens contest: int v,i,j,k,l,s,a[99];main(){for(scanf("%d",&s);*a-s;v =a[j*=v]-a[i],k=i=s*k&&
++a[--i]);printf("\n\n");} Very easy to extend and modify, no?
Charles Connell is president of CHC-3 Consulting, teaches software engineering to corporate and university audiences, and writes frequently on computer topics.
Uh, remind me never to take any of your classes.
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I only like to read Katz articles for the great comments people post to slam him. ;-)
Strange, but when I play Quake or other online games my palms don't get sweaty at all. Instead, they get ice cold, like my blood circulation has slowed or something. Am I just weird or does this happen to anyone else?
Go ahead, -1 me away, I've got more karma than you've got moderator points.
I agree. Completely implausible. Especially since there are no books that would give an account of any kind of flooding like that, or anything...
Since when is Internet access is a "basic freedom"? By your reasoning, would cell phones would also be a basic freedom? No! The concept of the ability to freely communicate doesn't lie in technology, it lies in people.
Technology is not necessarily a means to your open utopia. Like any other object, it brings with it its own problems and burdens. The world is not governed by technology, it is governed by humans, who in turn are governed by greed, fear, and the emotions that have governed them for thousands of years. Do not think that the existance of some gadgets will bring about your open world. If it does happen, it will be brought about by people.
Sounds like the thing is one giant FDIV operation.
You can find more information about this unit on Amazon. The first generation of this unit needed some help, but this one seems to have gotten the problems fixed.
Whenever I hear someone* declare something to be dead, it's a good indication that it'll be around for another hundred years or so. Yeah, the desktop metaphor is dead, just like paper is dead.
* Someone refers to the researcher who's inevitably researching what he thinks will supercede what he's declaring dead.
Singh's The Code Book has a good section on Babbage. Contrary to your portrayal of Babbage as a genius whose work floundered when he couldn't get funding, Babbage had a reputation as someone who wasn't a finisher. Granted, some money to help build his second difference engine certainly would've helped, but the investors were already less-than-impressed with the first difference engine, and Babbage himself had other projects he was working on. The blame shouldn't fall wholly on the shoulders of the British government.
...stories like this one wouldn't be so funny anymore.
I knew it!--they're all Vulcans in disguise. Next we can expect a System Protection Oscillator for Chemical Kudos or something...
The double standard on Slashdot is hard to believe. If my neighbor Joe installs Red Hat Linux, Slashdot is first to post a story about it. But when a bona fide story comes out saying Linux isn't gaining as much marketplace acceptance as everyone thought it was, we all rush to find reasons why the report is wrong.
There's a big difference between, as Michael puts it, "dumping Microsoft 100%," and, as the Goldman Sachs analyst stated, "with Linux...virtually not registering on our survey." But interpret it as you will.
Slashdot culture, and to a large extent tech/geek culture in general, shares a big slice with the society of anti-establishmentarians (what a horrible word, BTW). For whatever reasons (and everyone has their own), a large group of Slashdotters would rather see the establishment torn down than to ally themselves with it.
I know people who think this way, and I undertsand the idea, but I disagree with it. There is a lot more to be gained by changing a system from within than by ripping the entire thing down and starting over. (For the sake of the argument I'll ignore the obvious long-term benefits of an all-out revolution.) The anti-globalism movement that Katz writes about, and draws 1000-comment articles from, could do a lot more good by having its ragged protestors attend a university and rising within a company than by hurling molotov cocktails at its gates.
With regard to Linux vs. Windows, even Linus said, "Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do?" I'll tell you what they'll do: they'll get mad at some small detail within the newly-established culture and use it as a reason to launch another jihad against it. Because that's what they like to do. They're not interested in actually doing anything themselves, they just like to protest things others have done.
To a large degree they behave like children. When faced with a problem, adults will evaluate the system they live in and make decisions within that system to solve the problem. Children, on the other hand, whine and throw temper tantrums until some resolution is reached--the parent relents or the child is disciplined. In these cases, we're seeing a bunch of petulant children throwing a fit because someone has offended their ideals and they feel justified in running through the streets assaulting people because of it.
So how does this relate to the Athlon? There's a sense of forgiveness on Slashdot for the new Athlon XP naming system. "Yes, it's wrong," the average Slashdotter might say, "but they had to do it to fight against Intel." So it's okay for the underdog to play dirty, but had Intel invented this naming procedure they would've been villified on Slashdot from day one. And if Athlon eventually gets the upper hand in the chip war and Intel becomes the underdog, expect a switch of allegience from the disestablishmentarians simply because Intel is no longer the establishment. That is the definitive danger of this thought process. No one can ever rise to the top because the moment that they do, they become the new establishment.
...they didn't test it on quack3.exe.
Make sure that you're not confusing your BMW oil change dash light with the one for a Type I/II inspection, which is usually every 15,000 miles. Oil usually needs changing every 3 - 5,000 miles, even in BMW's.
I think we should be able to filter comments in ways other than by score. For example, I'd like to see all Informative + Interesting comments posted, or all Funny comments posted to an article.
And I think that we should create a new type of comment posting: Informed. People wishing to post informed comments would need to take a short quiz about the story, prepared by the story author. This would infer that they either read the story link (I have a deja vu feeling that 97.3% of /. readers don't) or are knowledgeable enough about the field in question. Slashdot is so wonderful to read because of those nuggets of postings from informed readers, but it's getting harder and harder to blast through the tons of worthless bedrock to get to them...
Truly spoken by somebody who has neither... ;-)
But I work in the embedded systems sector. It's the plumbing of world industry, and it's not cool. There are a lot of factors when it comes to embedded systems, but the number one factor is "cheap." Systems must be built cheap. (I'm ignoring reliability and other factors for the sake of the argument.) That means 486's and Pentiums, not the bleeding edge of 2GHz cool chips. Code is written in assembly, C and uncool languages, not Java and Perl. OS's include VxWorks, pSOS, LynxOS and DOS. Not cool ones like OS X, XP, etc.
My point is that it's nice for Transmeta to get into the embedded market, and I hope that they do well, but the "that would be cool" posters don't have a clue about how to make it happen, and neither will statements by Transmeta CEO Mark Allen, like "by this time next year, it could equal the notebook market." This industry is dominated by players that have been there for 30+ years, and if Transmeta wants to make a mark--as it seems they must if they're going to stay alive--they better have a pretty compelling offering in the works.
From the article
The software doesn't censor which sites a student can visit on the Internet. Instead, a professor can choose whether classes have access to the entire Internet or just the school's internal network. Professors can also block out e-mail and instant messaging.