I've been holding off getting rid of my palm in the hopes that the vaporous web pads will soon arrive. There was soooo much hype about these last summer... does anyone know if any have actually been made available ?
I guess it's a matter of semantics then. I agree upstream would be easy if the route were accurate. I guess I was pointing out that maintaining the route's accuracy would require downstream traffic. This would be difficult or impossible (if a link in the route were offline of inaccessable).
I don't think upstream would be easy at all. Unless the routes remained relativly static, and I suspect that they would not, certainly under some emergency situation.
Sure, now imagine a chain of three hops and the phone connected to the base station turns off or fails. The second in line would now seach for a new phone and discovers the phone at the end of the chain (the one that is furthest in hops from the base station). You end up with a circular route. If you attempt to propagate the fact that the first cell phone disconnected, you end up managing these routes or atleast the hop count from a particluar phone to the neasest basestation. In addition if any phone in the chain becomes unreachable the routing info needs to propogate. The problem is the propagation is downstream, which will quickly ballon the amount of traffic.
I agree with your assement of the problems with this type of network. However, I think that his proposed routing method was for an active cell phone to maintain an upstream route. Other phones whose upstream route was not available would forward their message to the connection phone. I can forsee problems with circular routing of messages in this scenario, which would likely overload the network very quicky. It seems as that the overhead to prevent circular routing would be large - if even practical.
The article is intersting, however, I'm begining to get overloaded with too many languages and versions of (in the case of perl). I understand that some languages are better suited for a particular task than others, but within the past couple of years there seems to have been a language explosion. Anyone else starting to get overwhelmed with syntax ?
Everyone knows that if you're going to create a large scale database you should use DB/2. Anyway, IBM is far better equiped to monitor your activites than Oracle.
Understood, but the reality of the situation is that physically communicating the name of a song or key is not that difficult, and provides extreme protection.
With popular voting, states are irrelavent. All the candidate would need to do is promise that every one over 65 would get free cash, and those under 30 would pay for it.:-)
True, there are better alternatives to voting than the simple one person one vote, as you metion; as long is it is still conducted on a state by state basis. With all of the recent news coverage concering the 'antiquated' electoral college system currently in use, I'd like to point out that just as any good developer knows; you don't change what you don't fully understand. I think there has been an overwhelming rush to jugdement on the electoral college, based soley on it's shortcomings, and no consideration for what benifits it may provide. I must admit that until I read the recent/. article link Math against Tyranny, I too had fallen victim to the hype. I have since left the bandwagon and would hope others as well would first understand what the current system provides for prior to asking for change.
Why do you assume that *most* techies are single young males ? I would agree that *is* this typical viewpoint of most of the general public, but I have found that this is certainly not true in the average shop, with the possible exception of the.com startups (coder slave workforce:) Working with 'things technological' is not a new profession invented for the under 30's. That statement reminds me of that commercial for e-trade with the gen-x dude.
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"dcbadcbadcba" - what do you mean to type ? Oh, nothing I'm just impatent.
I've been holding off getting rid of my palm in the hopes that the vaporous web pads will soon arrive. There was soooo much hype about these last summer... does anyone know if any have actually been made available ?
Wait a minute, if the route is circular the message will never reach the base station. That's the problem :)
another wart on the face of the web.
I guess it's a matter of semantics then. I agree upstream would be easy if the route were accurate. I guess I was pointing out that maintaining the route's accuracy would require downstream traffic. This would be difficult or impossible (if a link in the route were offline of inaccessable).
I don't think upstream would be easy at all. Unless the routes remained relativly static, and I suspect that they would not, certainly under some emergency situation.
Sure, now imagine a chain of three hops and the phone connected to the base station turns off or fails. The second in line would now seach for a new phone and discovers the phone at the end of the chain (the one that is furthest in hops from the base station). You end up with a circular route. If you attempt to propagate the fact that the first cell phone disconnected, you end up managing these routes or atleast the hop count from a particluar phone to the neasest basestation. In addition if any phone in the chain becomes unreachable the routing info needs to propogate. The problem is the propagation is downstream, which will quickly ballon the amount of traffic.
I agree with your assement of the problems with this type of network. However, I think that his proposed routing method was for an active cell phone to maintain an upstream route. Other phones whose upstream route was not available would forward their message to the connection phone. I can forsee problems with circular routing of messages in this scenario, which would likely overload the network very quicky. It seems as that the overhead to prevent circular routing would be large - if even practical.
The article is intersting, however, I'm begining to get overloaded with too many languages and versions of (in the case of perl). I understand that some languages are better suited for a particular task than others, but within the past couple of years there seems to have been a language explosion. Anyone else starting to get overwhelmed with syntax ?
"And J.S. Wurzler Underwriting Managers' Safeonline division is charging some companies using IIS as much as 15 percent more in premiums."
:)
Don't forget to add in the added insurance premiums when calculation MS's total cost of ownership
Who moderated this clueless troll up ?
I think you're right with this one. Someone should start a political movement, very leftist of course. :)
Maybe we could fork the MySQL and call it TheirSQL
probably the at same time you get a clue :) Unless ofcourse they use a beowulf cluster...
Everyone knows that if you're going to create a large scale database you should use DB/2. Anyway, IBM is far better equiped to monitor your activites than Oracle.
Understood, but the reality of the situation is that physically communicating the name of a song or key is not that difficult, and provides extreme protection.
No if the terrorists had copy written their plans and then encoded them would they be protected by the DMCA ?
just send us the list of individual ip's you want banned.
With popular voting, states are irrelavent. All the candidate would need to do is promise that every one over 65 would get free cash, and those under 30 would pay for it. :-)
True, there are better alternatives to voting than the simple one person one vote, as you metion; as long is it is still conducted on a state by state basis. With all of the recent news coverage concering the 'antiquated' electoral college system currently in use, I'd like to point out that just as any good developer knows; you don't change what you don't fully understand. I think there has been an overwhelming rush to jugdement on the electoral college, based soley on it's shortcomings, and no consideration for what benifits it may provide. I must admit that until I read the recent /. article link Math against Tyranny, I too had fallen victim to the hype. I have since left the bandwagon and would hope others as well would first understand what the current system provides for prior to asking for change.
good point, so will you be helping out the cause and signing off ?
Why do you assume that *most* techies are single young males ? I would agree that *is* this typical viewpoint of most of the general public, but I have found that this is certainly not true in the average shop, with the possible exception of the .com startups (coder slave workforce :) Working with 'things technological' is not a new profession invented for the under 30's. That statement reminds me of that commercial for e-trade with the gen-x dude.