However, I think BS wants to have its cake and eat it too. They appear to want a monopoly on basic connectivity (which is MUCH more like a common carrier) AND they want to charge for enhanced services that are simply CARRIED over their network.
This is like a postal carrier demanding extra fees for transacting certain kinds of business through the post because it causes higher traffic.
GPS cost under a thousand dollars. How about a system that knows the speed limit everywhere and does not allow the automobile to exceed that limit?
Given the propensity for even brand-new map systems to have incorrect information, I think this idea is automatically a non-starter.
I've used GPS mapping software that was inaccurate enough that it thought I was on a frontage road rather than the Interstate. Using either's speed limit on the other is a recipe for problems.
I enjoyed it very much, dispite being a little disappointed with the book's pacing: it takes forever to get started and it ends so abruptly the reader gets whiplash.
The whole article is about the U.S. being interested in *testing* the theory. To do this, you build a big-ass torroid (6M) and get it spinning fast (> 700m/s) and then energize a big-ass magnetic field (>37 T) and measure to see if the effect occurs. The effect in this case measuring something like 3 newtons.
In particular, it is unknown to what extent, if any, the increase is due to incorrect responses by drivers to their ABS systems, and, if so, whether the effect is likely to persist in the future.
They found correlation, not causality. It may be as likely to be that ABS is found to be more likely to be present in more expensive cars, and those that drive expensive cars are more likely to drive while under the influence of cellphones, or something like that.
Some of that spectrum will go to first responders -- police, fire and public safety officials -- so they can better communicate with one another. Breakdowns in emergency communication slowed the response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina. New spectrum should help.
In the same sense that more money should help, if it's applied properly and not just thrown at the problem.
Perhaps I should have said "slower" instead. Simulating hardware is necessarily slower than interacting with it directly, since there's an extra layer of abstraction involved.
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Why do people keep on insisting that ISPs are Common Carriers when they aren't? See the damn Wikipedia article: [...]
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Or the actual FCC report to Congress on which that's based:
http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Reports
However, I think BS wants to have its cake and eat it too. They appear to want a monopoly on basic connectivity (which is MUCH more like a common carrier) AND they want to charge for enhanced services that are simply CARRIED over their network.
This is like a postal carrier demanding extra fees for transacting certain kinds of business through the post because it causes higher traffic.
For example Microsoft was correct to research the task switching and later multi tasking when single tasking operating systems became obsolete.
Since, after all, these topics had not yet been explored in the decades before Microsoft delved into them.
could you PLEASE give us a frickin' sound warning for such links? this is defiitely not safe for work!
The national anthem of the USA sung by Dolly Parton is unsafe for work?
Where do you work...?
it's a strucured group of stars. our galaxy is very roughly a flat disk of stars, this new one is a sphere of stars intersecting it.
So we should dub it "The Wart"?
GPS cost under a thousand dollars. How about a system that knows the speed limit everywhere and does not allow the automobile to exceed that limit?
Given the propensity for even brand-new map systems to have incorrect information, I think this idea is automatically a non-starter.
I've used GPS mapping software that was inaccurate enough that it thought I was on a frontage road rather than the Interstate. Using either's speed limit on the other is a recipe for problems.
Or you could just use Google Video and search for "leroy". Sadly, the people who posted it there apparently can't spell "Jenkins" properly...
"The Star that appeared on the eve of our Savior's birth is actually a trinity - a three-in-one! Just like Jesus! This just proves that it's true!"
Polaris suddenly appeared two millenia ago?
IIRC that's why the moon is slowly pulling away from the earth -- the sun is slowly pulling the earth and the moon apart.
I thought that was due to the tidal action of the moon on Earth's oceans.
Being a member of the LDS church, [...]
Darn it, you just made William Shatner appear in my mind's eye.
From TFA: Microsoft wants you to read the headlines as "Windows 3X safer than Linux."
Did anyone else read that as "Windows 3.X safer than Linux"? I immediately thought, "Yeah, that's probably right; it doesn't DO anything..."
I enjoyed it very much, dispite being a little disappointed with the book's pacing: it takes forever to get started and it ends so abruptly the reader gets whiplash.
I didn't know Macross was a ripoff of Gilligan's Island...
Like when Gilligan broke the Professor's new coconut-and-bamboo mecha prototype?
But be careful, or you might end up losing your right arm and left leg.
Nonsense, alchemy's perfectly safe if you avoid banned procedures like human transmutation.
We could've had interplanetary ships by the 70s if Kennedy hadn't killed Orion.
"God was knocking, and he wanted in bad." - Niven/Pournell describing the sound of an Orion spacecraft launching nearby in Footfall
The whole article is about the U.S. being interested in *testing* the theory. To do this, you build a big-ass torroid (6M) and get it spinning fast (> 700m/s) and then energize a big-ass magnetic field (>37 T) and measure to see if the effect occurs. The effect in this case measuring something like 3 newtons.
Wonder if it might look like this.
(I don't think anyone else got the Robotech reference...)
Everyone else was thinking it was a Macross reference.
So, an early form of the CowboyNeal option?
Come get me when someone comes out with more than a "Fischer Price my first programming language".
To me, this seems like a craftsman saying "real men don't use safety devices".
Some of that spectrum will go to first responders -- police, fire and public safety officials -- so they can better communicate with one another. Breakdowns in emergency communication slowed the response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina. New spectrum should help.
In the same sense that more money should help, if it's applied properly and not just thrown at the problem.
Overly verbose bondage languages suck.
Yes, but we're not talking about Ada or COBOL.
The original poster was correct. An increase in spending is an increase in spending.
Just like a raise is a raise, even if it doesn't exceed the year-to-year consumer price index?
Employers must love you.
Too bad "duh" doesn't have "MS" in it.
But if a large fee was paid, with a strong exhortation to "win this case", that might have provided some incentive.
Perhaps I should have said "slower" instead. Simulating hardware is necessarily slower than interacting with it directly, since there's an extra layer of abstraction involved.