Wait, how is this a problem? Bosses who insist the.mobi should run Flash won't have many ATT customers in the first place... I don't see the problem here.
So why is it the sticker on my chair references California regulation requirements and not Federal regulation requirement? Current practice busts your theory. Or can you explain it better?
Congress is given the authority to coin money and regulate the value thereof according to section 8.5 of my copy of the constitution. Why can't the states use the Federal money?
Ok, I can see the trolls are VERY hungry on this one, I'll feed this one:
If we go back to limiting the Federal government to the powers as outlined in the Constitution, then you'll notice we're not advocating writing a new Constitution or going back to the one from 1776, but rather the current Constitution, which says "small central government, let the localities rule themselves".
You might then notice that the current Constitution says "no more slaves, no more segregation, everyone over a certain age gets to vote" although, not in those precise terms. I could.. uh.. point you at a copy of the Constitution in it's current form if you're having a hard time looking it up. But I'm willing to be it's your head crammed so far up your own ass that's causing you difficulties.
There will be no more segregation. There will be no more slaves. Try and grow up.
PS: As for "other policies"... I guess we'll still have to have a principal arbitrator, I nominate the Federal courts to rule on interstate questions, and the State courts to rule on intrastate questions. Might just be me tho.
Exactly! Anybody with modpoints mod this shit up. That's exactly what Jefferson and his crew were all about! They had seen what it meant to rule an empire from a central seat, and they knew it wouldn't work.
I don't know about you, but I have no problem using a [32|64]GB SSD on my laptop as my root drive and using a 500+GB rotating disk as my primary data storage mechanism (especially since laptop drives are getting up over 500GB into the terabyte+ range) thus giving me the performance boost of SSD for booting and program launching. Since it's rare that I'll be launching a program AND watching a BD movie, I can't see too much contention on that one interface (although I'm not saying there won't be contention, that's just silly) so I think combining the two could be a very smart move. Provided I can use both drives independently and simultaneously.
If it's an either/or then they have created the world's least useful device, I think.
Actually, having been involved in a fair amount of work with the CERN and Fermilab parallel computing groups, I can attest that they are using the supercomputers at their disposal for highly sequential data processing, mostly parsing a data set looking for a given pattern. For the amount of data they collect, this sequential processing is paramount.
Consider trying run a SELECT on a non-indexable 2TB database table. You have to look at every row, and it takes time. But if we can parse the table by several machines at once, we can parallelize the job. So they break the data into manageable chunks and send them out as jobs to individual processors. They do this for hundreds of thousands of dataset chunks and aggregate the results to form a single meaningful whole.
There are quite a lot of frameworks around just the scheduling to return the data in a timely manner. Workflows, efficient data transfer, and being able to detect hung processes on remote systems are all just part of the areas of pure CS research going on.
So while it's nice to have supercomputers that do parallel computation for things like energy research, not all large problems need parallel interconnected processors on quad infiniband interconnects.
tl:dr: SETI@Home, Folding@Home, BOINC are all super computers that are not parallel.
Could it be because he's got an A-Data card? I've never had a lot of luck with their equipment. Then again, I know people who have no luck with Western Digital, and ole WD has never let me down yet. Go figure.
Hey @luyseyal, do you have good luck with WD drives? Could be you're not gonna jive with A-Data cards!
Except it doesn't make sense for them not to offer to let me upgrade the rack equipment out of pocket so I can have a higher bitrate to my house. Sure, they won't be offering it to the whole town, but given that most of the town wouldn't ask for higher bitrate, I don't see where it's a problem.
Additionally, I think that's an untapped market right there. Let the consumer foot the bill for a ~$$$$ piece of equipment and they only have to maintain it. I know not everyone would be willing to do that, but surely there's some sort of market there.
But this leads right back into what you were saying about a co-op. So there's my problem with a co-op. Let's say I could get 20 people in town that were interested, we still have no one to talk to that could ACK the installation of higher bandwidth equipment in town. It would be nice to have ~20 people foot the bill of some beefier network equipment, and the sum-cost to the company would be roughly 0, discounting labor (which they have to have anyways to maintain the equipment!), but there's noone to ask about doing so.
My localtelco is CenturyLink if anyone has an in with management.
But the providers don't want you to have that, they don't want you watching TV over the internet, unless you're paying them for said television entertainment. If you're only using them for transport, they have no way to charge you more money (long distance / PPV strike a bell?). That's his point. Also, they'll try and pass any legislation they can (oh, you think Congress comes up with those laws on their own?) to force you to keep buying a-la-carte services from them.
I don't think you're asking me, but let's assume you are. Most of our family doesn't live here, so I would be using it to keep in touch with them. Additionally I do web development, and would love to be able to work from home.
However, that doesn't fit the mold of what you're describing, because that's a consumer centric purpose. You're describing "what does the vendor get out of it". Because that's what they are everywhere but the US. Vendors. Here, they're providers. Slight difference of name, the difference being in other places the intent is to sell pipe, because there's lots of competition. I visited the south of France last year for two weeks, and I could tell that there was no dearth of competition for home IP service in that short time frame.
However, here in the US, most localities are lucky to have two competing providers (granted, using separate tech often so that each tech only has one local provider).
I like the point. I'm gonna have to remember to bring that up more often in this discussion when I have it with other people.
Yeah, given that the best in town is either what I have, or T1, I don't see where I'm gaining much by getting a T1 over a 1.5Mbps DSL. Sure, I might have lower latency, but latency is not usually an issue out here. The fracking small size of the town and no support is.
Also, who else would lease service from me? Like 5 people, maybe. This town seems to be split between welfare and retirement.
No, I'm not comparing apples and oranges, I'm saying the "woe is me" attitude shouldn't be tolerated.
Also, I'm saying that we should demand corporate reform. But that doesn't fit with my first comment. It does with yours. See some of my post history for cases where I rant on and on about how fucked the western world is due to our reliance on corporate power. It's truly going to take us all down (hell, BP's trying to poison us...).
hehe, I actually thought it was by now well established that we're rather skewered on our technical prowess. We just happen to have a lot of servers in this country (so greater proportion of the internet than we deserve?), and we can play with the global monetary system since we control Wall Street. Otherwise, I see other countries out innovate us all the time. I'm rather afraid of our position slipping to number 6 or 15 or something globally before I retire (many years away).
Oh and I should mention that it's our lack of population density that...;)
So... The people I know with satellite service in our area at "reasonable" rates ( $50/mo, more than what I'm paying) aren't getting download speeds as high as mine. Perhaps it's their choice of carrier, but I'm lead to believe there are only a couple of these guys around.
So... Verizon tower. No. None of my TMobile or Verizon customers get good reception at my house period. I have AT&T* and the best that my ATT gives me in the area is Edge 1-2 bars. If I sit in my yard. Yeah, there's no MiFi in my future.
So... Cable company... yeah, the town is ~1500 residents. There is 1 (one) cable company. I have tried them three times, the most recent being when they left a flier on my fence "do you want cable from us before we start cutting off extra equipment that's not being used in your area?". "Yeah, sorry, the equipment in your area doesn't support internet. No, I've been told it's not worth the cost to support it out there, since the company is located in [next state over]. No, I don't know of any alternatives**."
So, I guess the story is... can we have a pity party for me?:p ~ I've made my peace for now. I'm just hoping Google and the Fed can come up with some sort of arrangement that encourages somebody in my area to do something in the next two or three years. I'm highly doubtful.
* the whole extended family runs iPhones, so I use a 3GS ~ Keeps support easy for me if I can glance at my phone to remember how to do something. No, I won't be changing soon for an Android. No, I won't be cutting my wrists... oops, I mean going back to WinMo until at least 7.1. At least.
Good FSM man, I'm paying +$30 for 1.5DSL... it's the only game in town, and I'm not in a position to just up and move (familial obligations, long backstory)... besides that there is no FIOS in the largest city nearest my job... as I understand, only one city in the state has FIOS...
I rather meant "ours" to mean/.ers... There are plenty of people not from the US on/. as well, and they'll likely have the same complaint if they're worried about data rates compared to global/country averages...
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Wait, how is this a problem? Bosses who insist the .mobi should run Flash won't have many ATT customers in the first place... I don't see the problem here.
So why is it the sticker on my chair references California regulation requirements and not Federal regulation requirement? Current practice busts your theory. Or can you explain it better?
Congress is given the authority to coin money and regulate the value thereof according to section 8.5 of my copy of the constitution. Why can't the states use the Federal money?
I don't know that you disagree with me...
Ok, I can see the trolls are VERY hungry on this one, I'll feed this one:
If we go back to limiting the Federal government to the powers as outlined in the Constitution, then you'll notice we're not advocating writing a new Constitution or going back to the one from 1776, but rather the current Constitution, which says "small central government, let the localities rule themselves".
You might then notice that the current Constitution says "no more slaves, no more segregation, everyone over a certain age gets to vote" although, not in those precise terms. I could .. uh .. point you at a copy of the Constitution in it's current form if you're having a hard time looking it up. But I'm willing to be it's your head crammed so far up your own ass that's causing you difficulties.
There will be no more segregation. There will be no more slaves. Try and grow up.
PS: As for "other policies" ... I guess we'll still have to have a principal arbitrator, I nominate the Federal courts to rule on interstate questions, and the State courts to rule on intrastate questions. Might just be me tho.
This is actually the reason I see presented most often. It kind of pisses me off.
Exactly! Anybody with modpoints mod this shit up. That's exactly what Jefferson and his crew were all about! They had seen what it meant to rule an empire from a central seat, and they knew it wouldn't work.
No, you die!
I choose cancer...
I would choose Stalin. I hear he was a froody dood.
Not to feed the trolls, but the answer is obvious: backwards compatibility.
Okay, so that's a noble goal. The real goal is because Adobe LIKES TO MAKE MONEY!
Hope this helps clarify things for you.
I don't know about you, but I have no problem using a [32|64]GB SSD on my laptop as my root drive and using a 500+GB rotating disk as my primary data storage mechanism (especially since laptop drives are getting up over 500GB into the terabyte+ range) thus giving me the performance boost of SSD for booting and program launching. Since it's rare that I'll be launching a program AND watching a BD movie, I can't see too much contention on that one interface (although I'm not saying there won't be contention, that's just silly) so I think combining the two could be a very smart move. Provided I can use both drives independently and simultaneously.
If it's an either/or then they have created the world's least useful device, I think.
Actually, having been involved in a fair amount of work with the CERN and Fermilab parallel computing groups, I can attest that they are using the supercomputers at their disposal for highly sequential data processing, mostly parsing a data set looking for a given pattern. For the amount of data they collect, this sequential processing is paramount.
Consider trying run a SELECT on a non-indexable 2TB database table. You have to look at every row, and it takes time. But if we can parse the table by several machines at once, we can parallelize the job. So they break the data into manageable chunks and send them out as jobs to individual processors. They do this for hundreds of thousands of dataset chunks and aggregate the results to form a single meaningful whole.
There are quite a lot of frameworks around just the scheduling to return the data in a timely manner. Workflows, efficient data transfer, and being able to detect hung processes on remote systems are all just part of the areas of pure CS research going on.
So while it's nice to have supercomputers that do parallel computation for things like energy research, not all large problems need parallel interconnected processors on quad infiniband interconnects.
tl:dr: SETI@Home, Folding@Home, BOINC are all super computers that are not parallel.
You are aware the Mythbusters proved one can polish a turd, right?
Could it be because he's got an A-Data card? I've never had a lot of luck with their equipment. Then again, I know people who have no luck with Western Digital, and ole WD has never let me down yet. Go figure.
Hey @luyseyal, do you have good luck with WD drives? Could be you're not gonna jive with A-Data cards!
That's the standard USB key high level format utility, he has an SDHC with a USB interface to his PC.
Rule 34 probably has something to do with it
Except it doesn't make sense for them not to offer to let me upgrade the rack equipment out of pocket so I can have a higher bitrate to my house. Sure, they won't be offering it to the whole town, but given that most of the town wouldn't ask for higher bitrate, I don't see where it's a problem.
Additionally, I think that's an untapped market right there. Let the consumer foot the bill for a ~$$$$ piece of equipment and they only have to maintain it. I know not everyone would be willing to do that, but surely there's some sort of market there.
But this leads right back into what you were saying about a co-op. So there's my problem with a co-op. Let's say I could get 20 people in town that were interested, we still have no one to talk to that could ACK the installation of higher bandwidth equipment in town. It would be nice to have ~20 people foot the bill of some beefier network equipment, and the sum-cost to the company would be roughly 0, discounting labor (which they have to have anyways to maintain the equipment!), but there's noone to ask about doing so.
My localtelco is CenturyLink if anyone has an in with management.
But the providers don't want you to have that, they don't want you watching TV over the internet, unless you're paying them for said television entertainment. If you're only using them for transport, they have no way to charge you more money (long distance / PPV strike a bell?). That's his point. Also, they'll try and pass any legislation they can (oh, you think Congress comes up with those laws on their own?) to force you to keep buying a-la-carte services from them.
That's some very excellent insight.
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I don't think you're asking me, but let's assume you are. Most of our family doesn't live here, so I would be using it to keep in touch with them. Additionally I do web development, and would love to be able to work from home.
However, that doesn't fit the mold of what you're describing, because that's a consumer centric purpose. You're describing "what does the vendor get out of it". Because that's what they are everywhere but the US. Vendors. Here, they're providers. Slight difference of name, the difference being in other places the intent is to sell pipe, because there's lots of competition. I visited the south of France last year for two weeks, and I could tell that there was no dearth of competition for home IP service in that short time frame.
However, here in the US, most localities are lucky to have two competing providers (granted, using separate tech often so that each tech only has one local provider).
I like the point. I'm gonna have to remember to bring that up more often in this discussion when I have it with other people.
Yeah, given that the best in town is either what I have, or T1, I don't see where I'm gaining much by getting a T1 over a 1.5Mbps DSL. Sure, I might have lower latency, but latency is not usually an issue out here. The fracking small size of the town and no support is.
Also, who else would lease service from me? Like 5 people, maybe. This town seems to be split between welfare and retirement.
No, I'm not comparing apples and oranges, I'm saying the "woe is me" attitude shouldn't be tolerated.
Also, I'm saying that we should demand corporate reform. But that doesn't fit with my first comment. It does with yours. See some of my post history for cases where I rant on and on about how fucked the western world is due to our reliance on corporate power. It's truly going to take us all down (hell, BP's trying to poison us...).
hehe, I actually thought it was by now well established that we're rather skewered on our technical prowess. We just happen to have a lot of servers in this country (so greater proportion of the internet than we deserve?), and we can play with the global monetary system since we control Wall Street. Otherwise, I see other countries out innovate us all the time. I'm rather afraid of our position slipping to number 6 or 15 or something globally before I retire (many years away).
Oh and I should mention that it's our lack of population density that ... ;)
Eh, my iPhone gets better speeds in [45 miles nearby large town] than it does on my DSL. #JustSayin ...
So ... The people I know with satellite service in our area at "reasonable" rates ( $50/mo, more than what I'm paying) aren't getting download speeds as high as mine. Perhaps it's their choice of carrier, but I'm lead to believe there are only a couple of these guys around.
So ... Verizon tower. No. None of my TMobile or Verizon customers get good reception at my house period. I have AT&T* and the best that my ATT gives me in the area is Edge 1-2 bars. If I sit in my yard. Yeah, there's no MiFi in my future.
So ... Cable company ... yeah, the town is ~1500 residents. There is 1 (one) cable company. I have tried them three times, the most recent being when they left a flier on my fence "do you want cable from us before we start cutting off extra equipment that's not being used in your area?". "Yeah, sorry, the equipment in your area doesn't support internet. No, I've been told it's not worth the cost to support it out there, since the company is located in [next state over]. No, I don't know of any alternatives**."
So, I guess the story is ... can we have a pity party for me? :p ~ I've made my peace for now. I'm just hoping Google and the Fed can come up with some sort of arrangement that encourages somebody in my area to do something in the next two or three years. I'm highly doubtful.
* the whole extended family runs iPhones, so I use a 3GS ~ Keeps support easy for me if I can glance at my phone to remember how to do something. No, I won't be changing soon for an Android. No, I won't be cutting my wrists ... oops, I mean going back to WinMo until at least 7.1. At least.
** it never hurts to ask.
Sure, so long as we keep the big picture in mind.
Good FSM man, I'm paying +$30 for 1.5DSL ... it's the only game in town, and I'm not in a position to just up and move (familial obligations, long backstory) ... besides that there is no FIOS in the largest city nearest my job ... as I understand, only one city in the state has FIOS...
Thanks. Can you add a little more salt? ;)
I rather meant "ours" to mean /.ers ... There are plenty of people not from the US on /. as well, and they'll likely have the same complaint if they're worried about data rates compared to global/country averages...