Don't worry, it is actually cheaper to trench fiber now than copper, so you will see this happening if you haven't already. I can't speak for the States, but new subdivisions in Western Canada actually have fiber being run to them from day one instead of copper lines. Profit motive is a great thing, and the international demand for copper has made this a reality. What you will not see is fiber being rolled out to existing neighborhoods - it is usually much cheaper to upgrade the neighborhood's cabinet to provide better service over the existing copper lines. There are some exceptions, of course, but this is the general trend.
This. TELUS does exactly the same in the West. You don't NEED fiber to the home when your DSLAM is that close, and in most cases you can even avoid laying new copper. The technology just gets a bad rap when incompetent ISPs try to sell you xDSL service through a shoddy local loop, and then refuse to roll a truck to fix it.
Check again, in Nevada it only need be available "next business day". Casinos can also issue payouts in credit or checks in case insufficient cash exists on premises. Look up the regulations around the Corporate Treasury Waiver and Bank Balance Waiver. So, yes, the casino must cover every bet on the floor - but not necessarily in cash, which was my original point.
Real casinos are not required to keep cash on hand for the full value of the chips they give players, and the reason is quite simple - the games are designed such that the casino will always make money! This is even more true in a virtual casino! Every once in a while, someone wins a lot of money, but it's usually at the expense of other players or nothing that can't be recovered in a day or two. However, now that the cat is out of the bag, a lot of players may end up trying to cash out at once.
Seconded. There are days when I work from home where I knock off my entire to-do list before I finish my first coffee. It doesn't mean I'm going to spend the rest of the day screwing around, nor does it mean I won't be going into the office the next day - they are simply two different work environments, one provides a solitary environment with the option to relax, the other provides a social space. Smart companies are realizing that both should be made available to their employees.
In addition to the physics, do remember these are shared lines and are controlled by Layer 1 and Layer 2 transport equipment. These are responsible for allocating wavelengths and will always introduce delay. Not to mention any delay introduced by your ISP, who I guarantee has not optimized their network for traffic across the Atlantic.
In an effort to maintain their lowest-bid status with one of the world's most profitable technology companies, multiple Chinese manufacturers decide to reduce costs by cutting corners on safety. News at 11.
1) Tablets are replacing paper media, not surprised to hear that magazines and other reading materials are disappearing from bathrooms.
2) I can't name anyone who bought a tablet who did not envision using it as an eReader. Isn't reading still the most popular bedtime activity?
3) Tablets are great in restaurants. You can show things to your friends and family. It's the douchebags who use tablets instead of conversing at the table that give only themselves a bad name. No different than whipping out a smartphone.
Then you suspect wrong, good sir! She is wary of all large technology companies - something about moving from a state operated country, I presume. She saw Skype as being an uninhibited way of communicating with her family across the ocean, but now fears the oppressive ways of a larger organization bearing down on it.
Then it will sync from Home -> Cloud -> iPhone via WiFi if possible, otherwise 3G if allowed. Their current cloud service behaves this way already - and it does warn you if you're about to do some drastic data transfers. Parent is still correct in saying that a one-time transfer from Cloud to mobile device consumes less than constant streaming.
In comparison to Skype, the answer is "not many" - however, everything required to create an alternative already exists, such as the plethora of open codecs from xiph.org, creators of Vorbis, Speex, and Theora, to name a few. Couple it with some kind of call control system, and you're off to the races. I suspect now that everyone is talking about alternatives - even my grandmother is wary of this acquisition - it won't take long for a replacement to appear.
You are correct - the ISPs are holding their cards when it comes to VDSL. Doesn't make much sense to offer the maximum when you can offer 50% attainable and still be better than the other guy. The potential for 100Mbps is there with VDSL2 - and I'm sure there will be a VDSL2+ soon.
My modem trains up at 75 Mbps / 25 Mbps with VDSL2 from TELUS in Canada. And no, you don't need to be close to a CO - you need to be close to a DSLAM, which backhauls to a CO via fiber, so the CO itself can actually be 10km+ away. But once you start talking about speeds >50 Mbps, the quality of the copper in your CPE plays a bigger part in determining your speeds. This is why we are seeing a major push for fiber in new communities - to blow these limits away.
Actually, this is incorrect. We crossed the point a while back where the International demand for copper forced it to be more expensive than fiber per meter. So technically, fiber would make the cable less expensive to manufacture. Copper is just a lot friendlier to handle, and ease of use falls very heavily into how quickly a new technology will be adopted... which was a major selling point at the time.
I hate to knit-pick, but I sure hope they are using a gigabit switch! Technically, the cable is still an analog component - the digital signal just travels across it. The issue described here was definitely a physical one, caused by the non-conforming terminations. It might be safer to say that there are certain situations where a digital signal can propagate across a poor cable, but this signal is likely to carry irrecoverable errors. If you ran a packet capture on the network pre-fix, you probably would have seen a lot of frame errors - this meant that the electrons themselves were not being properly transmitted, and could not be properly reassembled into frames. The symptoms would be exactly as you described - the physical link would remain active, but higher level protocols such as HTTP would request a lot of retransmissions and those which are less robust - such as FTP or SMB - would fail outright.
I'm sorry, but this looks horrible. It's like they took GTA, kept the same shitty combat and driving mechanics, and simply tacked a new highly-scripted story on top. I guess the so-called "AAA" studios are so caught up in their profit margins they can't be bothered to experiment with, I don't know, actually immersing the player instead of making them watch the game play itself.
The simple answer for a lot of people is that their families tell them they should pursue a "higher career" - anything requiring multiple degrees and loaded with professional prestige. In North America, this particular idea is reinforced by High Schools which tout "University level" streams vs. "Applied level" streams, where you are either destined to become a well-educated individual with a prestigious career, or you are going to be a laborer barely living paycheck to paycheck because you didn't study enough calculus.
So long as the notion that prestige is more important than what you are passionate about, this problem will exist.
A mod point for you. One most never forget that analog bandwidth refers to the size of the pipe, whereas digital bandwidth refers to the rate at which one can transmit bits. For example, your analog telephone operates in a wide enough band to allow your voice to be transmitted clearly. This band is a couple Kilohertz wide, and you may saturate the entire band at once depending on the range - such as if you try to play music. In the case of this story, the digital bandwidth is 1.5 Gbps - that is to say, 1.5 billion bits are transmitted across the link each second, in order.
The confusion is at least partially understandable - every Internet connection today still relies on having sufficient analog bandwidth to support a digital link. So long as we use photons and electrons for our connections, this will be the case.
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Don't worry, it is actually cheaper to trench fiber now than copper, so you will see this happening if you haven't already. I can't speak for the States, but new subdivisions in Western Canada actually have fiber being run to them from day one instead of copper lines. Profit motive is a great thing, and the international demand for copper has made this a reality. What you will not see is fiber being rolled out to existing neighborhoods - it is usually much cheaper to upgrade the neighborhood's cabinet to provide better service over the existing copper lines. There are some exceptions, of course, but this is the general trend.
This. TELUS does exactly the same in the West. You don't NEED fiber to the home when your DSLAM is that close, and in most cases you can even avoid laying new copper. The technology just gets a bad rap when incompetent ISPs try to sell you xDSL service through a shoddy local loop, and then refuse to roll a truck to fix it.
Check again, in Nevada it only need be available "next business day". Casinos can also issue payouts in credit or checks in case insufficient cash exists on premises. Look up the regulations around the Corporate Treasury Waiver and Bank Balance Waiver. So, yes, the casino must cover every bet on the floor - but not necessarily in cash, which was my original point.
Real casinos are not required to keep cash on hand for the full value of the chips they give players, and the reason is quite simple - the games are designed such that the casino will always make money! This is even more true in a virtual casino! Every once in a while, someone wins a lot of money, but it's usually at the expense of other players or nothing that can't be recovered in a day or two. However, now that the cat is out of the bag, a lot of players may end up trying to cash out at once.
Seconded. There are days when I work from home where I knock off my entire to-do list before I finish my first coffee. It doesn't mean I'm going to spend the rest of the day screwing around, nor does it mean I won't be going into the office the next day - they are simply two different work environments, one provides a solitary environment with the option to relax, the other provides a social space. Smart companies are realizing that both should be made available to their employees.
In addition to the physics, do remember these are shared lines and are controlled by Layer 1 and Layer 2 transport equipment. These are responsible for allocating wavelengths and will always introduce delay. Not to mention any delay introduced by your ISP, who I guarantee has not optimized their network for traffic across the Atlantic.
In an effort to maintain their lowest-bid status with one of the world's most profitable technology companies, multiple Chinese manufacturers decide to reduce costs by cutting corners on safety. News at 11.
1) Tablets are replacing paper media, not surprised to hear that magazines and other reading materials are disappearing from bathrooms.
2) I can't name anyone who bought a tablet who did not envision using it as an eReader. Isn't reading still the most popular bedtime activity?
3) Tablets are great in restaurants. You can show things to your friends and family. It's the douchebags who use tablets instead of conversing at the table that give only themselves a bad name. No different than whipping out a smartphone.
"The kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't live to have kids of his own."
Just as applicable now as it was then.
"Perhaps you would like this website instead, Dave?"
How is that the hard way? What ever happened to sharpening your teeth on man pages and samples written by people far better than you?
Then you suspect wrong, good sir! She is wary of all large technology companies - something about moving from a state operated country, I presume. She saw Skype as being an uninhibited way of communicating with her family across the ocean, but now fears the oppressive ways of a larger organization bearing down on it.
Then it will sync from Home -> Cloud -> iPhone via WiFi if possible, otherwise 3G if allowed. Their current cloud service behaves this way already - and it does warn you if you're about to do some drastic data transfers. Parent is still correct in saying that a one-time transfer from Cloud to mobile device consumes less than constant streaming.
In comparison to Skype, the answer is "not many" - however, everything required to create an alternative already exists, such as the plethora of open codecs from xiph.org, creators of Vorbis, Speex, and Theora, to name a few. Couple it with some kind of call control system, and you're off to the races. I suspect now that everyone is talking about alternatives - even my grandmother is wary of this acquisition - it won't take long for a replacement to appear.
This was a box, with triggers and a phone module. Event triggers, allowed for voice out, mic in.
Parent explicitly mentions a phone module. So no, not 3G - but a phone nonetheless.
Winners are exempt from war crime trials.
It's true. There is that saying - history is written by the victor.
You are correct - the ISPs are holding their cards when it comes to VDSL. Doesn't make much sense to offer the maximum when you can offer 50% attainable and still be better than the other guy. The potential for 100Mbps is there with VDSL2 - and I'm sure there will be a VDSL2+ soon.
My modem trains up at 75 Mbps / 25 Mbps with VDSL2 from TELUS in Canada. And no, you don't need to be close to a CO - you need to be close to a DSLAM, which backhauls to a CO via fiber, so the CO itself can actually be 10km+ away. But once you start talking about speeds >50 Mbps, the quality of the copper in your CPE plays a bigger part in determining your speeds. This is why we are seeing a major push for fiber in new communities - to blow these limits away.
It's only unpatriotic if you don't stand up while your country slowly degrades.
Actually, this is incorrect. We crossed the point a while back where the International demand for copper forced it to be more expensive than fiber per meter.
So technically, fiber would make the cable less expensive to manufacture. Copper is just a lot friendlier to handle, and ease of use falls very heavily into how quickly a new technology will be adopted... which was a major selling point at the time.
I hate to knit-pick, but I sure hope they are using a gigabit switch!
Technically, the cable is still an analog component - the digital signal just travels across it. The issue described here was definitely a physical one, caused by the non-conforming terminations. It might be safer to say that there are certain situations where a digital signal can propagate across a poor cable, but this signal is likely to carry irrecoverable errors. If you ran a packet capture on the network pre-fix, you probably would have seen a lot of frame errors - this meant that the electrons themselves were not being properly transmitted, and could not be properly reassembled into frames. The symptoms would be exactly as you described - the physical link would remain active, but higher level protocols such as HTTP would request a lot of retransmissions and those which are less robust - such as FTP or SMB - would fail outright.
I'm sorry, but this looks horrible. It's like they took GTA, kept the same shitty combat and driving mechanics, and simply tacked a new highly-scripted story on top. I guess the so-called "AAA" studios are so caught up in their profit margins they can't be bothered to experiment with, I don't know, actually immersing the player instead of making them watch the game play itself.
The simple answer for a lot of people is that their families tell them they should pursue a "higher career" - anything requiring multiple degrees and loaded with professional prestige. In North America, this particular idea is reinforced by High Schools which tout "University level" streams vs. "Applied level" streams, where you are either destined to become a well-educated individual with a prestigious career, or you are going to be a laborer barely living paycheck to paycheck because you didn't study enough calculus.
So long as the notion that prestige is more important than what you are passionate about, this problem will exist.
Because some people don't have friends with accounts and/or more than one account.
A mod point for you. One most never forget that analog bandwidth refers to the size of the pipe, whereas digital bandwidth refers to the rate at which one can transmit bits. For example, your analog telephone operates in a wide enough band to allow your voice to be transmitted clearly. This band is a couple Kilohertz wide, and you may saturate the entire band at once depending on the range - such as if you try to play music. In the case of this story, the digital bandwidth is 1.5 Gbps - that is to say, 1.5 billion bits are transmitted across the link each second, in order.
The confusion is at least partially understandable - every Internet connection today still relies on having sufficient analog bandwidth to support a digital link. So long as we use photons and electrons for our connections, this will be the case.