Real men and real women play Gurps with all the expanshions and games like shadowrun etc. Real men still have D&D box sets sitting around some where. @nd Ed being pretty much a rerelease of 1st ed just added lots of color and background. 3rd Ed changed everything to decide what chumpy presteige class you want or can get your DM (GM if your that way) to approve. Only good part about 3rd ed is easy rules on monster PC's.
Who attaches a windows box directly to there DSL? If you dont have a cheap somewhat functional hardware firewall or better yet a Linux/BSD/Sun/Cisco box functioning as a firewall then it's a simple DHCP/Static IP setup and some ethernet/wireless no software outside an IP stack and the applications I you want to use. Branding comarketing and all that drivel is what is killing business. Can we not decide what to buy based upon specs and a little marketing to get us to relize it's there? I dont want Yahoo intergrated into my browser or anything else for that matter. If I run Be or AmigaOS or whatever it shouldent matter there responcibility ends at the CPE just like the phone company will it take legislation to make them relize that. This is what ammounts to the old phone company only allowing there phones to be connected. For DSl this should mean you can run PPPoE ok better yet DHCP up an address and your golden. I think the funniest thing is my old cable provider didn't have my first hop respond to pings this would be what I consider connection verification 101 can you ping your default gateway? yes ok if you still have problems it's probably not the low level network (Yes I know that this is not perfect but it gets the Tier 1 techs in the call center out of a jam)
Not being able to survive in the middle of a rain forest has les to do with our tech as with our reluctance to learn anything about how to survive. Most of the engineers I know would be pretty lost in a rain forest now there are a few of them myself included that would be able to survive barring random act of large agressive animal. Its all about what you decided to learn and our society does not value learing how to survive particularly much. Now persoanly I think everybody that wants to eat (think everybody is included in that one) should go out and kill there dinner at least once. Now I think the big question is would we be happy in the middle of the rain forests persoanly I would say not particularly it's a subsistance lifestyle for the most part.
Well it's true that 1 pair would probably be ok for there needs (a lobed ring would probably make more pratical sence) except that would require a LOT of DWDM equipment that could possibly cost a lot more than just buying the pairs. A big thing to remember when dealing with a city is they happen to own the roads and have these construction crews etc. It would be pretty straight forward to fish fiber through an existing pipe. Terminition gear is expensive but long haul lasers are pretty cheap (for the 70km range gear) Now remember if this needs to be highly reliable say for EMS you would want to see 4 pairs going in differnt directions from each firestation say in a nice grid pattern that stops the guy with a backhoe from taking down something on a lobe rather than the ring. This might lead you to want to use the department with a high uptime requirement as the hubs firestations allready are staffed 24/7 have backup power and generaly are built to be around in event of a crisis thus they make a good base to lobe from as they are reliable. Now if it so happens there is existing copper point to point DSl might make a great step as an interum solution and backup as well.
OK is it just me or does this thing sound DOA they need to get the clock up there to start comparing. Granted they may sell a ton of them for laptops and office PC's where 3 watts of heat and power makes it a nice offering for the speed that it does have. Dependant on how much MS pushes games to DX9 I'm sure they may sell a lot of there as upgrades at compusa and best buy it looks good on paper but thats about it.
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OK lets get the AC vote out there how many people did the perfect thing and sent his email to every politician they could find so they could sent him unsolicited political emails (definatly not spam they are political in nature after all) lets see his legal team come back with it tail between it's legs on that one.
BTW get some religion as well after all sep church and state would make it hard to say they had to stop reaching out the those that have not yet been saved and all that.
Actualy the HAM's are liscenced for a whole lot more power in that band. They could easly key over a channel of 802.11b and AT&T would have to suck it as they must accept all interference. Now most HAM's wouldent intentialy do this (unlike the CB crew) but some will and the legal department of AT&T I'm sure will start sending out nasty grams and trying to get the FCC to knock on peoples doors looking for there HAM liscence.
It sounds like you talking about getting / increasign the speed of your leased line or going the colo route. I think the big missing part is what is it going to do are you going to loose money if it's down if so how much? I wouldent even think of going into any colo that isn't fully UPS' Gen backed up and N+1 on there cooling and generators.
From your server side it sounds like your going way overkill a T1 is a VERY small circut you grandmothers P166 could saturate it with static ish web trafic. Generaly the smallest unit of dedicated space I have gotten has been a single rack they generaly run 1k a month with 1Mb a sec floor on a 100bt connection and that meg included. This is also generaly 2 20amp power strips and cooling for the same (IE just enough for 42 1Ru servers if you stage there powerup on failure)
Look for Colo's that are near the backbone like NYC Virginia and Boston on the east coast it generaly makes sence to target the proximity of your user base as that can make a lot of network problems not be apparent to the majority of your users.
Well first off this dosent seem to be streaming but DL and play even through each format allows it. Why it's not multipass DivX is just screaming for low quality. I have seen this done right and so far these guys dont even come close, there encoding is subpar. They have a pretty narrow viewing window and they have to be chatty with there servers to do anything so no disconnected play. It has problems with basic firewalling (porbably due to useing funky encrypted tunnels) And lets face it for this to work sombody needs to make PS2 and Xbox software to deal with it.
Even more importantly the DOD can clasify something after the fact so while it might have to release source code but only if you have need to know as defined by the DOD.
More importantly thy have a "web" bios back from the day that made marketing hype so it's easy enough to see the confusion in the marketplace (like people realy care about there bios anymore?)
Ah but your right to bear dope is not in the amendments. The US is still a country where some people need guns to survive and I'm not talking inner city visit alaska live 3 hours away from anybody else and find out wether or not you want a reliable gun just in case.
Now persoanly I dont see a reason not to allow 50 cal machine guns (they are legal dependant on when they were made BTW) or 30mm cannon you dont rob a store with a 50 cal a pistol yes and Uzi sure.
The rest of the world all has differnt oppinions about guns mostly because they are something that can destabalize nations, look at a lot of africa I can buy a few cases of AK's and ammo dirt cheap and turn a bunch of thugs into a local warlord on a 10k budget. In America just try it the APC's and M1A1's will roll in. We have some significantly jacked swat teams. When our constitution was written people needed guns in there daily lives and they also the difference between a soldier and man on the street, now that has changed.
Obviously you have never tried to get Extream gear up and running in a larger envirnement. I have worked with each of them and let me tell you I have never had more problems with Extream gear. Working in a data center as default configured Extream gear will not autodetect on a gigE fiber link with most anything else especialy Cisco. Cisco's feature set is significanlty more expansive. From the sounds of it this campus was rather flat with a lot of little switches. A redesign sounds like putting 65xx's in all the decent sized wiring closets and moving to a hub and spoke with 10gigE unplinks to 6513's. That would get you power over ethernet (important consideration for voip) plently of bandwith and you can easly use the PFC/MFC cards to get routing done at a closet level to a few core routing networks. This does all assume they arent running unroutable applications if they are thats the problem they should fix but it very well may be more expensive and complicated than getting a new from the ground up L2/L3 network installed.
Well in reality the biggest problem with this is IPv4 and IPv6 DOES NOT FIX IT there are only so many BGP AS's avalible if your hooked up to AT&T and they go down your off the net period untill you reroute to another carrier there can be some automation to this but it's all just a hack with PAT and NAT along with bringing up netblocks in others AS's. We have a HUGE problem that nobody wants to tackle routing tables can only be so long so older routers can have enough memory to deal with them. IPv6 dosent fix this rather just makes it a bit easier to move as the prefix is easy to change. In all reality we need to set an incompatable date and move to generation 2 of ther internet IPv6 would be nice but at the same time we need to get a method for portable address space for all so nobody is tied to a single provider, it will need to involve some cryptografic signing on the routing updates to stop takeovers and such but when everybody with a connection gets a few hundred IP's and the ability to multihome them it might actualy get back to the 80's for reliability.
There is allways the posibility of proofing the tapes first by writing out a test pattern and reading it back. Granted this takes time (a few hours by my math) but if somebody realy wants a low densirty tape drive that costs more that a DLT from ebay it would be doable.
I'll second that one people think contruction is all layed out by the archs and engineers it is and it isn't. On the low end normal houses etc change orders are constant most people cant decide what they want or change there mind in the building process. It's very similar to the moving design goals of most programming jobs every few days somebody throws a new requirement down and you sometimes need to go back and change all sorts of "finished" code to accomodate it.
Now lets also look at the changes that have happened over the last 20 years. I can write fast good fairly well documented code that batch processes things in some very complex ways. We have mostly shot ourselves in the foot with GUI front ends, XML, RPC, SOAP and the other extranious buzzwords that everybody needs to have in the applications. Now granted this is from somebody who stoped writing much origional code and just beats the snot out of others and fixes it at this point. The reality is most of the bugs that end up being found in full applications are related to the UI, everybody gets the logic and the math right, not allways the best way but generaly functional.
So far EQ's problem with making a live world is they need to artificialy reduce the number of uber drops, thus they hav elots of rare mobs with rare loot for some things I think this is ok say a random giant but it realy sucks when you try and take down some named mob and he has junk. I dont think they have figured out this one yet it's hard to ballance and EQ has a LOT of people that have way to much time on there hands.
While it's nice that wireless is here yada yada yada lets get real we need real bandwith some fiber to ever house. If they want to legislate something enforce cable internet to all cable users served by 2006 period loose there liscence. Similar goes for phone yea I know the the last mile is a pain but deal with it if you want to keep your local monopoly. Phone charges are insane to begin with there is so much bloat inside these companies it's disgusting. Now dont get me wrong getting a nice need block of unliscenced bandwith would be nice it, would be great if you could up the power dependant on how narrow a beem your throwing (100mw for an omni 10w at a 1deg beam lets say) that would let home and business users get not the technology and drive the costs down for the base radios while letting it be used for LONG shots to get it deap into that rurual country everybody compains about (I dont know I live by a city less than a half mile from the CO at it took till a year ago to get DSL and cable is still just about here this is in CT where the population density is up there, the phone company has been looking to get the biggest bang for the buck out of the city CO's and leaving the doctors and lawyers int he burbs with disposable income till round two)
Remember one thing about closed source drivers a lot of the code that is in there for performance is seriously propriatary to there respective companies remember NVIDA and there endless driver updates that kept there cards on top of the heap? Also while I'm not sure if ATI has these issues but some companies buy parts of there cores from other companies along with driver libraries for them they cant open source them as they are not there to open. It will be years before we get a whole new chip that is fully able to have open drivers and run at max speed and even then expect some GPU assembly magic to be included these companies live or die on there FPS ratings in the gaming community and it's trickle down from there.
Actualy a great many people need access to exploit code your assumption is these things can only be stoped at the application layer this is incorrect. Hardware and software that is run in the layers before the application can defeat these things by doing everything from disconnecting the tcp session when it sees the code come over the line through rewriting rules that mutate the code as to be nonfunctional.
And you say this like its a bad thing. I am somewhere in the blurry line of hands on management and I will admit to hiring in the late 90's was hey they saw a computer before they can be a tech it's not that hard. There people came from 35k jobs to 60k jobs up here in connecticut and got used to that salary level they dont have the formal training they dont have the love for there work. My current practices is to find out if what they will do at work is also there hobby like my technical work is. I would rather get that highly motivated uber geek straigh out of a two year school or posibly in one (I do a lot of farming at the local tech school) these people are motivated they have drive (especialy night school while working students) vs the 30 something I have a BS in this crowd (that I'm somewhat a member of) granted I am not planing for long term knoledge transfer why because I have yet to find a system in a sub 1000 person company that cant be rewritten. Now this allso takes into account that I drive my coders, developers and my code monkeys if you learn that it's 3 differnt skill sets all related you do pretty well. Coders write actual new code functions real work coding inline assembly macros new librraries basicaly. Developers spit shine and glue together those libraries throw on GUI garbage (I dislike user interfaces they eat up to much time and resources for something that is very touchy feely) Now Code monkeys are that very special beed that can get you a mostly working application in a morning it might be a mix of C pascal Perl and expect with not a drop of documentation but it works, these are the guys that are great for the one time code. Now turnover hasent been a problem for me yea I have reduced staff here and there but I make sure that workloads stay where they should be people need those 15 minute watercooler talks to calm down (to many cafienne junkies if I could I would get the coffie machine replaced with a juice machine) Now I am seeing a lot of resumes for any open positions most of them are garbage with an alphabet soup of certs and a way to focused resume no ancilary skills.
Granted lets not talk about the hubble specificaly but as I used to work with Satalite GIS data trust me you can tell if somebody is reading a newspaper especialy if you have a few offset shots to interpalate. The russians sold us (for whatever reasons in the mid 90's US sat data was classified but the russians would shoot you just about anything for a few hundred bucks) good half meter res sat photos you could tell if the women sunbathing in there back yards had there bikini tops on or not (this is black and white remember) All of this was from russian declasified sat data so we would have to assume ther clasified ones are better (maybe not film has the problem of being consumable and having to be retrieved digital might not give the rez but a constant stream of pictures instead) Now we are 10 years later while I boubt they can head the newspaper over your head of if they would even want to but make and modle of your car not a problem.
To bad your forgeting cheap energy drives the US economy to a great extent as much as cheap labor drives the 3rd world economy making something requires 3 things raw materials energy and labor raw materials are pretty even across the board as they are traded internationaly (there are a lot of exceptions to this) but labor and energy are definaly regional the US has expensive labor vs say mexico mexico has cheaper labor by a huge factor but energy costs are higher it dosent make things even out but it is a mitigating factor to why the US still actualy produces high every input things like steel wire cars and general durable goods.
We actualy need cheaper energy perferably from a more effitient cleaner source (plutonium based reactors would be nice less mess longer runtimes) there are things we can do to make it cleaner like alchohol replacing / augmenting petrol like brazil that can be a very efficient solar collector down there but that has taxation issues. Now to that plackard how much industry does Bangladesh have especialy durable good and heavy industry not to much that I can see. Industrial economies polute it's part of the process nobody likes it but the solution is not to return to agrian societies or tax the industrial nations to death so the thirld world can industrialize and polute there fair share. Want a good solution dump some real money into fusion not cold fusion just normal everyday we know how to do it it's just an engineering problem of containment etc not a problem of physics.
Your forgetting that the volume of the cuttings is larger than the raw material as there is a lot of wasted space you would have to recompress the cuttings and thats would be a lot of energy.
More correctly they have underpriced there product and are looking for ways to get that back inline. A 1mb a sec pipe average per month costs 100 ish if buying in bulk (like hundreds of gb) from a major tier one and thats without figuinging anything for there network. So DSL sould realy cost a few hundred a month. Now there is no reason why there companies just dont trafic shape the snot out of there networks get the P2P sharing to slow down and prioritize other protocals. It's technicay feasable granted anybody with a brain ran away from working for there companies technicaly once they have cut there teeth.
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Real men and real women play Gurps with all the expanshions and games like shadowrun etc. Real men still have D&D box sets sitting around some where. @nd Ed being pretty much a rerelease of 1st ed just added lots of color and background. 3rd Ed changed everything to decide what chumpy presteige class you want or can get your DM (GM if your that way) to approve. Only good part about 3rd ed is easy rules on monster PC's.
Who attaches a windows box directly to there DSL? If you dont have a cheap somewhat functional hardware firewall or better yet a Linux/BSD/Sun/Cisco box functioning as a firewall then it's a simple DHCP/Static IP setup and some ethernet/wireless no software outside an IP stack and the applications I you want to use. Branding comarketing and all that drivel is what is killing business. Can we not decide what to buy based upon specs and a little marketing to get us to relize it's there? I dont want Yahoo intergrated into my browser or anything else for that matter. If I run Be or AmigaOS or whatever it shouldent matter there responcibility ends at the CPE just like the phone company will it take legislation to make them relize that. This is what ammounts to the old phone company only allowing there phones to be connected. For DSl this should mean you can run PPPoE ok better yet DHCP up an address and your golden. I think the funniest thing is my old cable provider didn't have my first hop respond to pings this would be what I consider connection verification 101 can you ping your default gateway? yes ok if you still have problems it's probably not the low level network (Yes I know that this is not perfect but it gets the Tier 1 techs in the call center out of a jam)
Not being able to survive in the middle of a rain forest has les to do with our tech as with our reluctance to learn anything about how to survive. Most of the engineers I know would be pretty lost in a rain forest now there are a few of them myself included that would be able to survive barring random act of large agressive animal. Its all about what you decided to learn and our society does not value learing how to survive particularly much. Now persoanly I think everybody that wants to eat (think everybody is included in that one) should go out and kill there dinner at least once. Now I think the big question is would we be happy in the middle of the rain forests persoanly I would say not particularly it's a subsistance lifestyle for the most part.
Well it's true that 1 pair would probably be ok for there needs (a lobed ring would probably make more pratical sence) except that would require a LOT of DWDM equipment that could possibly cost a lot more than just buying the pairs. A big thing to remember when dealing with a city is they happen to own the roads and have these construction crews etc. It would be pretty straight forward to fish fiber through an existing pipe. Terminition gear is expensive but long haul lasers are pretty cheap (for the 70km range gear) Now remember if this needs to be highly reliable say for EMS you would want to see 4 pairs going in differnt directions from each firestation say in a nice grid pattern that stops the guy with a backhoe from taking down something on a lobe rather than the ring. This might lead you to want to use the department with a high uptime requirement as the hubs firestations allready are staffed 24/7 have backup power and generaly are built to be around in event of a crisis thus they make a good base to lobe from as they are reliable. Now if it so happens there is existing copper point to point DSl might make a great step as an interum solution and backup as well.
OK is it just me or does this thing sound DOA they need to get the clock up there to start comparing. Granted they may sell a ton of them for laptops and office PC's where 3 watts of heat and power makes it a nice offering for the speed that it does have. Dependant on how much MS pushes games to DX9 I'm sure they may sell a lot of there as upgrades at compusa and best buy it looks good on paper but thats about it.
OK lets get the AC vote out there how many people did the perfect thing and sent his email to every politician they could find so they could sent him unsolicited political emails (definatly not spam they are political in nature after all) lets see his legal team come back with it tail between it's legs on that one.
BTW get some religion as well after all sep church and state would make it hard to say they had to stop reaching out the those that have not yet been saved and all that.
Actualy the HAM's are liscenced for a whole lot more power in that band. They could easly key over a channel of 802.11b and AT&T would have to suck it as they must accept all interference. Now most HAM's wouldent intentialy do this (unlike the CB crew) but some will and the legal department of AT&T I'm sure will start sending out nasty grams and trying to get the FCC to knock on peoples doors looking for there HAM liscence.
It sounds like you talking about getting / increasign the speed of your leased line or going the colo route. I think the big missing part is what is it going to do are you going to loose money if it's down if so how much? I wouldent even think of going into any colo that isn't fully UPS' Gen backed up and N+1 on there cooling and generators.
From your server side it sounds like your going way overkill a T1 is a VERY small circut you grandmothers P166 could saturate it with static ish web trafic. Generaly the smallest unit of dedicated space I have gotten has been a single rack they generaly run 1k a month with 1Mb a sec floor on a 100bt connection and that meg included. This is also generaly 2 20amp power strips and cooling for the same (IE just enough for 42 1Ru servers if you stage there powerup on failure)
Look for Colo's that are near the backbone like NYC Virginia and Boston on the east coast it generaly makes sence to target the proximity of your user base as that can make a lot of network problems not be apparent to the majority of your users.
Well first off this dosent seem to be streaming but DL and play even through each format allows it. Why it's not multipass DivX is just screaming for low quality. I have seen this done right and so far these guys dont even come close, there encoding is subpar. They have a pretty narrow viewing window and they have to be chatty with there servers to do anything so no disconnected play. It has problems with basic firewalling (porbably due to useing funky encrypted tunnels) And lets face it for this to work sombody needs to make PS2 and Xbox software to deal with it.
Even more importantly the DOD can clasify something after the fact so while it might have to release source code but only if you have need to know as defined by the DOD.
More importantly thy have a "web" bios back from the day that made marketing hype so it's easy enough to see the confusion in the marketplace (like people realy care about there bios anymore?)
Ah but your right to bear dope is not in the amendments. The US is still a country where some people need guns to survive and I'm not talking inner city visit alaska live 3 hours away from anybody else and find out wether or not you want a reliable gun just in case.
Now persoanly I dont see a reason not to allow 50 cal machine guns (they are legal dependant on when they were made BTW) or 30mm cannon you dont rob a store with a 50 cal a pistol yes and Uzi sure.
The rest of the world all has differnt oppinions about guns mostly because they are something that can destabalize nations, look at a lot of africa I can buy a few cases of AK's and ammo dirt cheap and turn a bunch of thugs into a local warlord on a 10k budget. In America just try it the APC's and M1A1's will roll in. We have some significantly jacked swat teams. When our constitution was written people needed guns in there daily lives and they also the difference between a soldier and man on the street, now that has changed.
Obviously you have never tried to get Extream gear up and running in a larger envirnement. I have worked with each of them and let me tell you I have never had more problems with Extream gear. Working in a data center as default configured Extream gear will not autodetect on a gigE fiber link with most anything else especialy Cisco. Cisco's feature set is significanlty more expansive. From the sounds of it this campus was rather flat with a lot of little switches. A redesign sounds like putting 65xx's in all the decent sized wiring closets and moving to a hub and spoke with 10gigE unplinks to 6513's. That would get you power over ethernet (important consideration for voip) plently of bandwith and you can easly use the PFC/MFC cards to get routing done at a closet level to a few core routing networks. This does all assume they arent running unroutable applications if they are thats the problem they should fix but it very well may be more expensive and complicated than getting a new from the ground up L2/L3 network installed.
Well in reality the biggest problem with this is IPv4 and IPv6 DOES NOT FIX IT there are only so many BGP AS's avalible if your hooked up to AT&T and they go down your off the net period untill you reroute to another carrier there can be some automation to this but it's all just a hack with PAT and NAT along with bringing up netblocks in others AS's. We have a HUGE problem that nobody wants to tackle routing tables can only be so long so older routers can have enough memory to deal with them. IPv6 dosent fix this rather just makes it a bit easier to move as the prefix is easy to change. In all reality we need to set an incompatable date and move to generation 2 of ther internet IPv6 would be nice but at the same time we need to get a method for portable address space for all so nobody is tied to a single provider, it will need to involve some cryptografic signing on the routing updates to stop takeovers and such but when everybody with a connection gets a few hundred IP's and the ability to multihome them it might actualy get back to the 80's for reliability.
There is allways the posibility of proofing the tapes first by writing out a test pattern and reading it back. Granted this takes time (a few hours by my math) but if somebody realy wants a low densirty tape drive that costs more that a DLT from ebay it would be doable.
I'll second that one people think contruction is all layed out by the archs and engineers it is and it isn't. On the low end normal houses etc change orders are constant most people cant decide what they want or change there mind in the building process. It's very similar to the moving design goals of most programming jobs every few days somebody throws a new requirement down and you sometimes need to go back and change all sorts of "finished" code to accomodate it.
Now lets also look at the changes that have happened over the last 20 years. I can write fast good fairly well documented code that batch processes things in some very complex ways. We have mostly shot ourselves in the foot with GUI front ends, XML, RPC, SOAP and the other extranious buzzwords that everybody needs to have in the applications. Now granted this is from somebody who stoped writing much origional code and just beats the snot out of others and fixes it at this point. The reality is most of the bugs that end up being found in full applications are related to the UI, everybody gets the logic and the math right, not allways the best way but generaly functional.
So far EQ's problem with making a live world is they need to artificialy reduce the number of uber drops, thus they hav elots of rare mobs with rare loot for some things I think this is ok say a random giant but it realy sucks when you try and take down some named mob and he has junk. I dont think they have figured out this one yet it's hard to ballance and EQ has a LOT of people that have way to much time on there hands.
While it's nice that wireless is here yada yada yada lets get real we need real bandwith some fiber to ever house. If they want to legislate something enforce cable internet to all cable users served by 2006 period loose there liscence. Similar goes for phone yea I know the the last mile is a pain but deal with it if you want to keep your local monopoly. Phone charges are insane to begin with there is so much bloat inside these companies it's disgusting. Now dont get me wrong getting a nice need block of unliscenced bandwith would be nice it, would be great if you could up the power dependant on how narrow a beem your throwing (100mw for an omni 10w at a 1deg beam lets say) that would let home and business users get not the technology and drive the costs down for the base radios while letting it be used for LONG shots to get it deap into that rurual country everybody compains about (I dont know I live by a city less than a half mile from the CO at it took till a year ago to get DSL and cable is still just about here this is in CT where the population density is up there, the phone company has been looking to get the biggest bang for the buck out of the city CO's and leaving the doctors and lawyers int he burbs with disposable income till round two)
Remember one thing about closed source drivers a lot of the code that is in there for performance is seriously propriatary to there respective companies remember NVIDA and there endless driver updates that kept there cards on top of the heap? Also while I'm not sure if ATI has these issues but some companies buy parts of there cores from other companies along with driver libraries for them they cant open source them as they are not there to open. It will be years before we get a whole new chip that is fully able to have open drivers and run at max speed and even then expect some GPU assembly magic to be included these companies live or die on there FPS ratings in the gaming community and it's trickle down from there.
Actualy a great many people need access to exploit code your assumption is these things can only be stoped at the application layer this is incorrect. Hardware and software that is run in the layers before the application can defeat these things by doing everything from disconnecting the tcp session when it sees the code come over the line through rewriting rules that mutate the code as to be nonfunctional.
And you say this like its a bad thing. I am somewhere in the blurry line of hands on management and I will admit to hiring in the late 90's was hey they saw a computer before they can be a tech it's not that hard. There people came from 35k jobs to 60k jobs up here in connecticut and got used to that salary level they dont have the formal training they dont have the love for there work. My current practices is to find out if what they will do at work is also there hobby like my technical work is. I would rather get that highly motivated uber geek straigh out of a two year school or posibly in one (I do a lot of farming at the local tech school) these people are motivated they have drive (especialy night school while working students) vs the 30 something I have a BS in this crowd (that I'm somewhat a member of) granted I am not planing for long term knoledge transfer why because I have yet to find a system in a sub 1000 person company that cant be rewritten. Now this allso takes into account that I drive my coders, developers and my code monkeys if you learn that it's 3 differnt skill sets all related you do pretty well. Coders write actual new code functions real work coding inline assembly macros new librraries basicaly. Developers spit shine and glue together those libraries throw on GUI garbage (I dislike user interfaces they eat up to much time and resources for something that is very touchy feely) Now Code monkeys are that very special beed that can get you a mostly working application in a morning it might be a mix of C pascal Perl and expect with not a drop of documentation but it works, these are the guys that are great for the one time code. Now turnover hasent been a problem for me yea I have reduced staff here and there but I make sure that workloads stay where they should be people need those 15 minute watercooler talks to calm down (to many cafienne junkies if I could I would get the coffie machine replaced with a juice machine) Now I am seeing a lot of resumes for any open positions most of them are garbage with an alphabet soup of certs and a way to focused resume no ancilary skills.
Granted lets not talk about the hubble specificaly but as I used to work with Satalite GIS data trust me you can tell if somebody is reading a newspaper especialy if you have a few offset shots to interpalate. The russians sold us (for whatever reasons in the mid 90's US sat data was classified but the russians would shoot you just about anything for a few hundred bucks) good half meter res sat photos you could tell if the women sunbathing in there back yards had there bikini tops on or not (this is black and white remember) All of this was from russian declasified sat data so we would have to assume ther clasified ones are better (maybe not film has the problem of being consumable and having to be retrieved digital might not give the rez but a constant stream of pictures instead) Now we are 10 years later while I boubt they can head the newspaper over your head of if they would even want to but make and modle of your car not a problem.
To bad your forgeting cheap energy drives the US economy to a great extent as much as cheap labor drives the 3rd world economy making something requires 3 things raw materials energy and labor raw materials are pretty even across the board as they are traded internationaly (there are a lot of exceptions to this) but labor and energy are definaly regional the US has expensive labor vs say mexico mexico has cheaper labor by a huge factor but energy costs are higher it dosent make things even out but it is a mitigating factor to why the US still actualy produces high every input things like steel wire cars and general durable goods.
We actualy need cheaper energy perferably from a more effitient cleaner source (plutonium based reactors would be nice less mess longer runtimes) there are things we can do to make it cleaner like alchohol replacing / augmenting petrol like brazil that can be a very efficient solar collector down there but that has taxation issues. Now to that plackard how much industry does Bangladesh have especialy durable good and heavy industry not to much that I can see. Industrial economies polute it's part of the process nobody likes it but the solution is not to return to agrian societies or tax the industrial nations to death so the thirld world can industrialize and polute there fair share. Want a good solution dump some real money into fusion not cold fusion just normal everyday we know how to do it it's just an engineering problem of containment etc not a problem of physics.
Your forgetting that the volume of the cuttings is larger than the raw material as there is a lot of wasted space you would have to recompress the cuttings and thats would be a lot of energy.
More correctly they have underpriced there product and are looking for ways to get that back inline. A 1mb a sec pipe average per month costs 100 ish if buying in bulk (like hundreds of gb) from a major tier one and thats without figuinging anything for there network. So DSL sould realy cost a few hundred a month. Now there is no reason why there companies just dont trafic shape the snot out of there networks get the P2P sharing to slow down and prioritize other protocals. It's technicay feasable granted anybody with a brain ran away from working for there companies technicaly once they have cut there teeth.