Mesh ultra wide band is where its at. Small scale flexible networking. Path from point A to point B gets clogged? Just use the untouched path to point C, then back to B. Good ole almost sorta kinda grid networking.
Very high speed switching antenna arrays should really help, allowing for the dynamic directionalizing to focus beams on the fly, sans mechanical apparati. I dont really know much about UWB in relation to this, if its even possible with UWB, but if its possible, it'd be pretty crucial.
How does 802.16a hope to achieve these lofty goals?
What band does it use? Considering its long distance, the 802.11a 5Ghz range seems a bit out of the question, just too energy hungry. If its 2.4, i cant see how they expect it to compete with every other signal under the sun and still pull off such spectactamundo specs.
Typical transmition power?
Now wouldnt it be nice to have a frequency not in tune with water? So maybe vegitation isnt a big iron curtain between you and your data? Bring that critical LoS step another twenty feet down to earth? Course, thats probably not gonna happen.
"The d-cinema initiative involves a joint venture with Microsoft and L.A.-based Digital Cinema Solutions. Terms weren't available, but it's believed the unique three-way relationship will shave Landmark's costs to a fraction of the usual $100,000-plus per screen to install most d-cinema systems."
there are no projectors worthy of movie grade cinema for under $100,000.
sdram aint that hard to build. plenty of people setup fabs. the damn was bound to burst, what with so many players jumping up. very little initial investment, very clear returns in an overinflated market. hence the swing to over supply, and the ram is cheaper than hard drive space swing.
building lcd's on the other hand, aint so simple. startup costs are astronomical and you cant just tack on some more pixels to build the next greatest. each new panel requires either a comprehensive rebuild or more typically - a new fab to make whats next.
lcd and dlp projectors are this exact situation, squared, with resultantly terrible end results. no one wants to make new fabs because they're competitors just gonna turn around and do the same. its like nuclear escallation, and no ones gonna start pushing buttons for fear of the avalanch they start.
thankfully sony just dropped a mega ton of cash down into a new lcd projector fab. HDTV and 3000:1. Now all i need is a change of pants and miracle they deliver it at a "reasonable" price point. Like thats ever gonna happen.
I'd consider dumping $1000 and a couple months of "spare" time into building my own miniature end to end fab to serve me the rest of my life, but it seems kind of pointless without two/three features which seem to becoming exponentially more important: bga capabilities and multilayer.
What would be required for BGA work? what sort of accuracy? does BGA automatically imply multilayer, or can you route between the contact patches? what sort of "fill rate" do the solder balls form? do you need to add more solder, or do the solder balls themselves suffice?
Also, does anyone have thoughts for a BGA capable DIY soldering system? you'd have to hold the parts in place, i assume? heating elements: what's used by the big boys? how can you get a system that would provide the appropriate ramp up in temperature from that system? pizza ovens come to mind, but maintaining the constant and low delta-t has been described as an absolute requisite.
moving on to multilayer...
*gulp*.
i'd think this would vaguely just be like solder masking - with which i happen to have no experience either. just mask a nonconductive coating, then glue. what adhessive is used? what is done for interboard connectivity?
and where do you find thin PCB for use in such a system? somehow those 6 layer nvidia boards (random guess) are just as thin as my single layer ISA serial cards (bless them both).
Myren
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Its the whole bozo in SC house or representatives making a resolution to force the dixie chicks to play a concert in apology for bashing the president.
The government has performed legal action to silence something it deems distasteful (insulting the president), and is demanding an apology.
the rest of it is just moron chasing moron. but when moronic issues like start involving government censorship over so much as questioning the government, this start becoming seriously dangerous.
"Really, the most objective way to analyze that claim is to look at how many windows users open on their own workstation, versus how many remoted X applications they run. Compare that percentage. Then take a look at how much more complex X was made to handle the eventuality of having to handle remote windows, etc, etc. Is it worth it?"
Lets see, oh, about 0:100%. Not a hard choice here, considering X is used as a complete multi-user environment for most of my projects. Most Xservers are Xwin32 or other windows servers. They couldnt run something locally if they tried.
Thin clients are awsome. X was right, its the rest of the worlds fault for being too braindead to take advantage of it.
Furthermore, most of the complexity of X is fairly well masked by modern distros. Although xf86config used to be one of the major linux headache/stumbling blocks/barrier to entries, with redhat and mandrake I seem to here a lot less bitching.
I believe the issue is less x is too complicated and more that X was never geared towards n00bs up until recently (ie: redhat).
Myren
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water injection is a valid means of keeping your engine cooler, preventing "pinging" aka engine detonation which is horrendously horrible to your engine.
some alcohol injection system is also used.
doesnt make your car faster inherently, but allows it to run faster harder better.
since when has the pentagon having to pay for anything ever slowed them down. theres no reason to give the war machine a free ticket. they're going to either get it free, or buy it, one way or another. its not going to hurt our troops.
sure, its our tax money, but the pentagons not going to get a bigger budget cause they need to buy a couple more airwaves. they're going to get a generic chunk of money to throw into war. and i'm a little happier knowing the cold billion they spend on buying all these airwaves will mean maybe 8 less super bombs massacring civilians.
as long as the money's being spent on war, i'd prefer it be spent in a way thats constructive. let hte money recirculate back to the states, rather than blowing itself up.
[Insert/. joke about Bush being from Texas too here]. I think the relationship is self evident.
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How do you factor in the health care travesty? Bombings wiped out existing civilian Iraqi infrastructure 12 years ago, US Sanctions kept them from rebuilding it, and importing virtually all medical supplies. Well over half a million under the age of 5 died as a result.
Iraq will presumably be allowed to rebuild its once top notch health care (people came from far and wide for Iraqi health care) after the war. Once upon a time it was extremely socialist: care was rarely denied. We were the cause of this pain in the first place. I sense it will never regain its former glory. Capitalism will set in.
The exact same goes for education, although I suspect over 500,000 children under the age of 5 did not die because of its destruction. And education continues, since it relies less on physical means than the medical profession.
We blew up a 1st world nation once. We didnt let them rebuild. Now we're back for more.
But only to reduce maintence costs, and because Russia agreed to as well. Of course, Russia's nukes have been in a horrible state of disrepair for a long time, so they figured they might as well get us to take down some too.
We will always have thousands of nukes though. Enough to blanket the earth, sea and all. Our penis will always be large and mighty.
Iraq has virtually no technical infrastructure. Very few people in Iraq have any internet access at all, much less from their homes.
Why? Because sanctions havent allowed so much as a tape recorder in to Iraq for well over 12 years now. They're stuck with whatever decaying technology they had then.
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for the life of me, i cannot understand how we're taking further steps to the right, given how conservative we are now.
XBox and Gamecube are about 4 x easier to program. You have to either start from scratch with PS2 or use someone elses (expensive) code.
This is further complicated by the fact that the PS2 is badass. Screw monolithic single processor, two vector units ripe to be utilized rip on right along with the main processor. But using them and usuing them both efficiently is ridiculously hard.
Compare this to XBox. Write in directX, has truly badass video card, has/real/ texture memory (measely 4 mb verus 32), anti aliasing, hard drive. Built in network port. Four controllers. Crossporting to gamecube + pc is fairly trivial. Onboard hardware to use digital sound (have to make your own software digital sound unit which often consumes one of the vector units on ps2).
I love the ps2, i consider it the superior system, but developing for it is a bitch and a half.
Do they really need all the bandwidth? You'd think they've got enough satellites, enough networks so they would never have to rely on 3rd party commercial systems.
Perhaps they're trying to limit the free flow of information. The pentagon has never seemed particularly enthused by war journalists. They know information is dangerous. They want to be the one point of information. Less pictures of babies crushed in rubble, more pictures of Americans slaughtering night-gear-less Iraqi soldiers in the middle of the night. Oh wait, I guess thats out too now.
How else are they supposed to make this war look how they want it to? The war machine has its own interest at heart.
Fuck that, if the pentagon wants more bandwidth, they can play the bidding game with everyone else. With a half a trillion dollar budget, the war machine needs no further special privlidges. They're not exactly strapped for cash: they can buy whatever bandwidth they need.
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Mesh ultra wide band is where its at. Small scale flexible networking. Path from point A to point B gets clogged? Just use the untouched path to point C, then back to B. Good ole almost sorta kinda grid networking.
Very high speed switching antenna arrays should really help, allowing for the dynamic directionalizing to focus beams on the fly, sans mechanical apparati. I dont really know much about UWB in relation to this, if its even possible with UWB, but if its possible, it'd be pretty crucial.
Myren
Sorry kids, this aint geared towards mobile usage.
802.11a/b/g already has enough problems with power consumption. Somehow i dont think this is going to improve the situation.
How does 802.16a hope to achieve these lofty goals?
What band does it use? Considering its long distance, the 802.11a 5Ghz range seems a bit out of the question, just too energy hungry. If its 2.4, i cant see how they expect it to compete with every other signal under the sun and still pull off such spectactamundo specs.
Typical transmition power?
Now wouldnt it be nice to have a frequency not in tune with water? So maybe vegitation isnt a big iron curtain between you and your data? Bring that critical LoS step another twenty feet down to earth? Course, thats probably not gonna happen.
way to gain compasion RIAA. lets sue kids for billions of dollars.
only in corporate america, ladies and gentlemen.
"The d-cinema initiative involves a joint venture with Microsoft and L.A.-based Digital Cinema Solutions. Terms weren't available, but it's believed the unique three-way relationship will shave Landmark's costs to a fraction of the usual $100,000-plus per screen to install most d-cinema systems."
there are no projectors worthy of movie grade cinema for under $100,000.
star wars epsidose two was FILMED at 1920 x 1080 progressive.
progressive being the only difference, albiet a considerable one.
except there's only two major fabs.
sdram aint that hard to build. plenty of people setup fabs. the damn was bound to burst, what with so many players jumping up. very little initial investment, very clear returns in an overinflated market. hence the swing to over supply, and the ram is cheaper than hard drive space swing.
building lcd's on the other hand, aint so simple. startup costs are astronomical and you cant just tack on some more pixels to build the next greatest. each new panel requires either a comprehensive rebuild or more typically - a new fab to make whats next.
lcd and dlp projectors are this exact situation, squared, with resultantly terrible end results. no one wants to make new fabs because they're competitors just gonna turn around and do the same. its like nuclear escallation, and no ones gonna start pushing buttons for fear of the avalanch they start.
thankfully sony just dropped a mega ton of cash down into a new lcd projector fab. HDTV and 3000:1. Now all i need is a change of pants and miracle they deliver it at a "reasonable" price point. Like thats ever gonna happen.
AKA, consumers 0, big industry 1.
Myren
I'd consider dumping $1000 and a couple months of "spare" time into building my own miniature end to end fab to serve me the rest of my life, but it seems kind of pointless without two/three features which seem to becoming exponentially more important: bga capabilities and multilayer.
What would be required for BGA work? what sort of accuracy? does BGA automatically imply multilayer, or can you route between the contact patches? what sort of "fill rate" do the solder balls form? do you need to add more solder, or do the solder balls themselves suffice?
Also, does anyone have thoughts for a BGA capable DIY soldering system? you'd have to hold the parts in place, i assume? heating elements: what's used by the big boys? how can you get a system that would provide the appropriate ramp up in temperature from that system? pizza ovens come to mind, but maintaining the constant and low delta-t has been described as an absolute requisite.
moving on to multilayer...
*gulp*.
i'd think this would vaguely just be like solder masking - with which i happen to have no experience either. just mask a nonconductive coating, then glue. what adhessive is used? what is done for interboard connectivity?
and where do you find thin PCB for use in such a system? somehow those 6 layer nvidia boards (random guess) are just as thin as my single layer ISA serial cards (bless them both).
Myren
Its the whole bozo in SC house or representatives making a resolution to force the dixie chicks to play a concert in apology for bashing the president.
The government has performed legal action to silence something it deems distasteful (insulting the president), and is demanding an apology.
the rest of it is just moron chasing moron. but when moronic issues like start involving government censorship over so much as questioning the government, this start becoming seriously dangerous.
"Really, the most objective way to analyze that claim is to look at how many windows users open on their own workstation, versus how many remoted X applications they run. Compare that percentage. Then take a look at how much more complex X was made to handle the eventuality of having to handle remote windows, etc, etc. Is it worth it?"
Lets see, oh, about 0:100%. Not a hard choice here, considering X is used as a complete multi-user environment for most of my projects. Most Xservers are Xwin32 or other windows servers. They couldnt run something locally if they tried.
Thin clients are awsome. X was right, its the rest of the worlds fault for being too braindead to take advantage of it.
Furthermore, most of the complexity of X is fairly well masked by modern distros. Although xf86config used to be one of the major linux headache/stumbling blocks/barrier to entries, with redhat and mandrake I seem to here a lot less bitching.
I believe the issue is less x is too complicated and more that X was never geared towards n00bs up until recently (ie: redhat).
Myren
or not.
land of liber-what?
or not.
land of liber-what?
sorry, s/billion/10 million/.
which i imagine would buy about 8 super bombs or the airwaves.
water injection is a valid means of keeping your engine cooler, preventing "pinging" aka engine detonation which is horrendously horrible to your engine.
some alcohol injection system is also used.
doesnt make your car faster inherently, but allows it to run faster harder better.
since when has the pentagon having to pay for anything ever slowed them down. theres no reason to give the war machine a free ticket. they're going to either get it free, or buy it, one way or another. its not going to hurt our troops.
sure, its our tax money, but the pentagons not going to get a bigger budget cause they need to buy a couple more airwaves. they're going to get a generic chunk of money to throw into war. and i'm a little happier knowing the cold billion they spend on buying all these airwaves will mean maybe 8 less super bombs massacring civilians.
as long as the money's being spent on war, i'd prefer it be spent in a way thats constructive. let hte money recirculate back to the states, rather than blowing itself up.
myren
[Insert /. joke about Bush being from Texas too here]. I think the relationship is self evident.
How do you factor in the health care travesty? Bombings wiped out existing civilian Iraqi infrastructure 12 years ago, US Sanctions kept them from rebuilding it, and importing virtually all medical supplies. Well over half a million under the age of 5 died as a result.
Iraq will presumably be allowed to rebuild its once top notch health care (people came from far and wide for Iraqi health care) after the war. Once upon a time it was extremely socialist: care was rarely denied. We were the cause of this pain in the first place. I sense it will never regain its former glory. Capitalism will set in.
The exact same goes for education, although I suspect over 500,000 children under the age of 5 did not die because of its destruction. And education continues, since it relies less on physical means than the medical profession.
We blew up a 1st world nation once. We didnt let them rebuild. Now we're back for more.
Myren
disarming.
But only to reduce maintence costs, and because Russia agreed to as well. Of course, Russia's nukes have been in a horrible state of disrepair for a long time, so they figured they might as well get us to take down some too.
We will always have thousands of nukes though. Enough to blanket the earth, sea and all. Our penis will always be large and mighty.
Iraq has virtually no technical infrastructure. Very few people in Iraq have any internet access at all, much less from their homes.
Why? Because sanctions havent allowed so much as a tape recorder in to Iraq for well over 12 years now. They're stuck with whatever decaying technology they had then.
Myren
for the life of me, i cannot understand how we're taking further steps to the right, given how conservative we are now.
XBox and Gamecube are about 4 x easier to program. You have to either start from scratch with PS2 or use someone elses (expensive) code.
/real/ texture memory (measely 4 mb verus 32), anti aliasing, hard drive. Built in network port. Four controllers. Crossporting to gamecube + pc is fairly trivial. Onboard hardware to use digital sound (have to make your own software digital sound unit which often consumes one of the vector units on ps2).
This is further complicated by the fact that the PS2 is badass. Screw monolithic single processor, two vector units ripe to be utilized rip on right along with the main processor. But using them and usuing them both efficiently is ridiculously hard.
Compare this to XBox. Write in directX, has truly badass video card, has
I love the ps2, i consider it the superior system, but developing for it is a bitch and a half.
Do they really need all the bandwidth? You'd think they've got enough satellites, enough networks so they would never have to rely on 3rd party commercial systems.
Perhaps they're trying to limit the free flow of information. The pentagon has never seemed particularly enthused by war journalists. They know information is dangerous. They want to be the one point of information. Less pictures of babies crushed in rubble, more pictures of Americans slaughtering night-gear-less Iraqi soldiers in the middle of the night. Oh wait, I guess thats out too now.
How else are they supposed to make this war look how they want it to? The war machine has its own interest at heart.
Fuck that, if the pentagon wants more bandwidth, they can play the bidding game with everyone else. With a half a trillion dollar budget, the war machine needs no further special privlidges. They're not exactly strapped for cash: they can buy whatever bandwidth they need.
Myren
(Three Kings reference)
George bush needs you! Needs your help! Free Iraq! Get Saddam Hussein out! George Bush, the president, wants you!
So, can we get the satellites?
No.
Ahh, the patriotism of capitalism. Democracy my ass.
it was only under the very infrequent heavy duty usage that the system used to fail. a week of pure heavy usage is enough for me to say good enough.