That would make upgrades rather difficult, as every provider would have to coordinate.
Fiber is dirt cheap, it's the laying and endpoints that cost. So just lay a bundle of a hundred or so pairs to each distribution point, and three pairs from each home to the nearest distribution point. The extra two pairs per home are for redundency, so if one breaks you don't have to dig up the road.
In the UK, child sexual abuse has been a tabloid-driven panic-issue for many years. The government is very eager to be seen doing something about it. Not because it's any more common here than elsewhere in the world, but because every time someone gets caught after going undetected for years there's a media field day, which in turn means an investigation into why they weren't caught sooner, and someone has to bear the public's wrath.
Wikipedia has another reason for that. The internet is not random sample. It does lean quite liberal, by American standards. Partly because internet culture started off in academic and student populations, and partly because a lot of the english-speaking members are from the UK, Australia, Canada, and other places Americans tend to regard as borderline communist states.
Outside of the mainstream news though likes the equally bad targetted news, a field which depends upon knowing the readership and telling them what they want to hear. This has a polarising effect, amplifying the two-way split of American society. Liberals read liberal news and get more liberal, while conservatives read conservative news and get more conservative.
The quality for equal bitrate is superior to MP3, but that's really only advantage going for it - and there are other formats just as good or better. The only people ever to use WMA are those who didn't know better than to use the CD ripper that came built into windows media player.
It isn't free, but it's cheap compared to high-energy experimental work. How many theorists can you hire for the cost of building the LHC, or launching a space instrument?
It's all theory work. Money isn't the limiting factor there, it's just that very few people have the required intellect and level of education to advance the field. There's nothing to spend money on until some of them propose an experiment to test their latest theory. Even the particle physics people can ask for new accelerators, and cosmologists always have some new instrument on their wish-list.
The only hope for fundamentally new space travel tech right now is the quantum vacuum thruster, and that only because the experimental evidence so far has too many flaws to say anything more than 'something funny going on here.'
Bishops can't actually 'overrule' the pope. What they do is issue their own statements 'clarifying' that the pope may have said that, but he really means something else.
The problems come when religions contradict reality. I've argued with people who reject germ theory because the bible describes disease as a consequence of sin.
It's a catholic thing. Their position is that sex before marriage is forbidden, but contraception is forbidden regardless of marital status. The concept of an unwanted child within marriage doesn't feature. There is no such thing: All children are a blessing from God, and it is in the nature of all married couples to desire children.
There's an imbalance in development. Under windows, every hardware manufacturer does all they can to ensure their hardware is good - investing a lot of money in developing and testing the drivers. Under linux, the manufacturers usually don't care - aside from some server hardware, there just aren't enough resources to justify it from a business perspective. So development falls to three-man team on a side project, and sometimes it's down to community volunteers working from reverse-engineered specifications.
More precisely, it's a space opera. A sub-genre of scifi in which the technology isn't the focus, the characters are. Interstellar travel and lightsabres exist only to provide the epic backdrop upon which the characters may perform.
I think Star Wars was more innovative at the time it first came out. No-one had seen anything quite like it before. There were sci-fi movies, yes. Even with gunfights and spaceship battles. But none on such an epic scale, none drawing so effectively upon other cinematic genres like the western.
Films like star wars are ten-a-penny these days, of course. But back then? It was revolutionary.
I'd make a 'cannot be unseen' joke, except that I've actually seen Jar Jar rule 34, and... no. It will always be with me. I don't like even thinking about it.
It doesn't reflect bullets. It reflects blaster... er, blasts. Which move a lot slower than bullets, though I presume pack a considerably greater punch.
One day someone will go through their military history books and learn about handheld projectile weapons which, though they may not be able to puncture even the weak armor of a stormtrooper, would make excellent anti-jedi weapons.
And you aren't now? The vast majority of US politics is party politics. It's really quite convenient - one look at the letter beside a politicians name and you can know with a high degree of reliability their positions on everything from gay marriage to gun control to taxation to immigration to environmental protection to healthcare to forign policy. It doesnt matter that these issues have little to no connection - everything is conveniently bundled up into the 'republican package' and the 'democrat package.'
The trick is to turn a brief advantage into a strategic, long-term advantage. So once you've managed to get in power once (by luck, or cheating, or by the rival party having a terrible scandal) you can manipulate things to make it much easier to retain that power, or to regain it quickly if lost.
"without making it feel like a merchandising excuse."
But if it doesn't feel like a merchandising excuse, it just won't feel like star wars. Even the original trilogy had that feel. Every alien, ship and droid seems to whisper 'action figure in stores soon.'
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That would make upgrades rather difficult, as every provider would have to coordinate.
Fiber is dirt cheap, it's the laying and endpoints that cost. So just lay a bundle of a hundred or so pairs to each distribution point, and three pairs from each home to the nearest distribution point. The extra two pairs per home are for redundency, so if one breaks you don't have to dig up the road.
In the UK, child sexual abuse has been a tabloid-driven panic-issue for many years. The government is very eager to be seen doing something about it. Not because it's any more common here than elsewhere in the world, but because every time someone gets caught after going undetected for years there's a media field day, which in turn means an investigation into why they weren't caught sooner, and someone has to bear the public's wrath.
Perceptual hash.
I'm guessing it'll be a perceptual hash. Most likely Microsoft's PhotoDNA, because it's been used by law enforcement before.
Wikipedia has another reason for that. The internet is not random sample. It does lean quite liberal, by American standards. Partly because internet culture started off in academic and student populations, and partly because a lot of the english-speaking members are from the UK, Australia, Canada, and other places Americans tend to regard as borderline communist states.
Outside of the mainstream news though likes the equally bad targetted news, a field which depends upon knowing the readership and telling them what they want to hear. This has a polarising effect, amplifying the two-way split of American society. Liberals read liberal news and get more liberal, while conservatives read conservative news and get more conservative.
Are any of those still in business?
The death of DRM in music only. It's still going in video, software and ebooks. Still being trivially broken, too.
Who would want to play WMA encoded files?
The quality for equal bitrate is superior to MP3, but that's really only advantage going for it - and there are other formats just as good or better. The only people ever to use WMA are those who didn't know better than to use the CD ripper that came built into windows media player.
It isn't free, but it's cheap compared to high-energy experimental work. How many theorists can you hire for the cost of building the LHC, or launching a space instrument?
It's all theory work. Money isn't the limiting factor there, it's just that very few people have the required intellect and level of education to advance the field. There's nothing to spend money on until some of them propose an experiment to test their latest theory. Even the particle physics people can ask for new accelerators, and cosmologists always have some new instrument on their wish-list.
The only hope for fundamentally new space travel tech right now is the quantum vacuum thruster, and that only because the experimental evidence so far has too many flaws to say anything more than 'something funny going on here.'
And then the lay catholics ignore the bishops.
Bishops can't actually 'overrule' the pope. What they do is issue their own statements 'clarifying' that the pope may have said that, but he really means something else.
The problems come when religions contradict reality. I've argued with people who reject germ theory because the bible describes disease as a consequence of sin.
It's a catholic thing. Their position is that sex before marriage is forbidden, but contraception is forbidden regardless of marital status. The concept of an unwanted child within marriage doesn't feature. There is no such thing: All children are a blessing from God, and it is in the nature of all married couples to desire children.
There are many ways to prevent conception, but only condoms prevent disease transmission too.
I'm not sure anyone understands economics. Even real economists. Who politicians on both sides ignore anyway.
There's an imbalance in development. Under windows, every hardware manufacturer does all they can to ensure their hardware is good - investing a lot of money in developing and testing the drivers. Under linux, the manufacturers usually don't care - aside from some server hardware, there just aren't enough resources to justify it from a business perspective. So development falls to three-man team on a side project, and sometimes it's down to community volunteers working from reverse-engineered specifications.
More precisely, it's a space opera. A sub-genre of scifi in which the technology isn't the focus, the characters are. Interstellar travel and lightsabres exist only to provide the epic backdrop upon which the characters may perform.
I think Star Wars was more innovative at the time it first came out. No-one had seen anything quite like it before. There were sci-fi movies, yes. Even with gunfights and spaceship battles. But none on such an epic scale, none drawing so effectively upon other cinematic genres like the western.
Films like star wars are ten-a-penny these days, of course. But back then? It was revolutionary.
It's in the holiday special.
I'd make a 'cannot be unseen' joke, except that I've actually seen Jar Jar rule 34, and... no. It will always be with me. I don't like even thinking about it.
It doesn't reflect bullets. It reflects blaster... er, blasts. Which move a lot slower than bullets, though I presume pack a considerably greater punch.
One day someone will go through their military history books and learn about handheld projectile weapons which, though they may not be able to puncture even the weak armor of a stormtrooper, would make excellent anti-jedi weapons.
And you aren't now? The vast majority of US politics is party politics. It's really quite convenient - one look at the letter beside a politicians name and you can know with a high degree of reliability their positions on everything from gay marriage to gun control to taxation to immigration to environmental protection to healthcare to forign policy. It doesnt matter that these issues have little to no connection - everything is conveniently bundled up into the 'republican package' and the 'democrat package.'
The trick is to turn a brief advantage into a strategic, long-term advantage. So once you've managed to get in power once (by luck, or cheating, or by the rival party having a terrible scandal) you can manipulate things to make it much easier to retain that power, or to regain it quickly if lost.
"without making it feel like a merchandising excuse."
But if it doesn't feel like a merchandising excuse, it just won't feel like star wars. Even the original trilogy had that feel. Every alien, ship and droid seems to whisper 'action figure in stores soon.'