AC, I see your point and I didn't intend to come across sounding religious. It's my personal belief that at the macro level, the environment is more than capable of supporting whatever we want to do with it, as long we take some reasonable precautions. I'm not saying we ought to eliminate our use of toilet paper or stop filling landfills. My response was really intended as a counter to the previous poster's assumption that somehow we must do something about global warming even if it could be demonstrated we aren't the cause.
Your position coincides with that of the Der Speigel article in some key ways. I mean, if we look at the issue as a matter of human self-interest, then it could very well be that global warming is a net positive. Note that the most severe alarmists would have us believe that the world as we know it will be gone, and mankind along with it. I've never bought that and I think most levelheaded people shouldn't either.
It doesn't really matter whether the cause of the warming is anthropogenic or not; unless you're going to debate that the planet is not getting warmer -- and it doesn't seem like you are -- we still have a serious problem on our hands.
It most certainly matters that we understand the degree to which warming is anthropogenic, because that understanding helps us to determine what kind of solution we should seek. If we are not the cause, then it's not even obvious we should. We should be acting to reduce our impact on the environment, not strengthen it.
If the warming trend is natural, then we're just going to have to deal with it. That is, if our CO2 output is not an appreciable contributor to the current warming trend, then all of the money we're currently shifting towards greenhouse gas reduction efforts ought to be spent on, say, determining which areas of the world will be uninhabitable in 50-100 years, and moving people away from there... or finding cures for any diseases which are likely to proliferate more widely as a result.
(And if it's not anthropogenic, then we're probably screwed even further, because it's probably a lot more difficult to reverse the process.)
I am absolutely certain that any of the 802.11-pren and 802.11-draftn implementations that use the Airgo Networks (now Qualcomm) chipsets do true spatial multiplexing with multiple input and output antennas (MIMO), NOT just "fancy antenna selection" as you put it. I know because I contributed to the design of their first-gen RX implementation. They've never NOT done it. Of course, the chip also supports non-MIMO modes for back-compatability with older access points.
I am almost as certain that other implementations use MIMO as well. But of course since I wasn't on the inside I cannot say. Still, it's pretty much the only way to get more than 54mbps over 802.11 without channel bonding.
If you did what you suggest---go to a bunch of open WAPs and do child porn searches---then none of the people you target will ultimately get in trouble. They might get their homes searched, but the FBI wouldn't find any evidence of child porn, because you're long gone.
Furthermore your second paragraph isn't a fair characterization of what happened here. The cops aren't going around searching for open WAPs. It was the defense that brought this argument, not the cops. The allegedly illegal IM traffic came from the defendant's IP address, and he used the open WAP argument to suggest that since it could have been a drive-by or neighbor, that they didn't have enough evidence to search his house. Well, they may not have had enough evidence to convict, certainly---but you don't need nearly as much to get the search warrant. I frankly agree with that decision. The evidence stated that a crime was committed in the vicinity of that house.
Oh, by all means, given the choice between an old-fashioned tower or rack-mounted PC and a mini, I'd take the mini. Thankfully there is another choice, as you point out.
Well, I prefer a standard A/V stack form factor, frankly. I have a mac mini in my system, but it just doesn't look right next to all the rest of the gear. I do agree with you about noise though---it's gotta be quiet.
It has been so successful that HP is dropping the line? Something tells me that the editorial writer differs with HP about how it should count its beans.
then watch the Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld. Or more specifically, fast forward to 1:34:35 and watch Stan Sigman, the CEO of Cingular Wireless. Two things struck me. The first was his admission that they entered into the contract with Apple without ever seeing the device. I mean, damn, that's a sales job. And the second was my general expression that he just seemed like such a fish out of water at MacWorld. The way he consulted his note cards, his stilted delivery, his tilt towards marketing over technology, and so forth. Mr. Sigman is an old-time phone company wonk, and it showed.
But they also know that the value that YouTube is creating with their service is gigantic. That is: sure, YouTube is sending Viacom some free business---but YouTube has the potential to make far more than that themselves.
Put another way, YouTube has far more to lose here than Viacom does.
So Viacom is in fact quite smart to push hard for some sort of revenue stream from YouTube for their content.
Oh man.. as if tossing a charged capacitor to an unsuspecting victim wasn't funny enough already.
I just don't get this danger angle. I mean, yes, charged high-voltage capacitors can be dangerous. So can bottles of gasoline with flaming pieces of cloth stuffed in the neck. And yet, none of us seems to be particularly freaked out by a fifteen-gallon can of gasoline strapped under our butts when we're driving---even with thousands of tiny explosions occurring per minute under the hood in front of us.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned about the safety issues---just that I think we can be reasonably confident that the obvious ones will be licked if this comes out to market.
The 10x comment must be pretty rough. From the article, the EEStor ultracaps will come in at 280Wh/kg, with Li-ion at 120Wh/kg and 32Wh/kh. So really, it's more like 2.3x the density of Li-ion. I dunno, that doesn't seem that far to me.
I see the claim about charging in 10 minutes---but I've never seen them claim that will happen at home. It is indeed quite clear, as you've figured out yourself, that a residential hookup just doesn't have the capacity for a fast charge. But frankly, that's not that big of a deal, because in practice it will not be impractical to recharge a car at home over the course of hours.
It's when you're on a long trip and you need to refill and go that you'll be wishing for a filling station with an ultracap-compatible, high-power electrical supply---for which you'd likely be willing to pay a premium kWh rate.
OK, my subject is flippant, but it is also serious. The alternative you are proposing simply extracts an integer approximation to the float x. The code as written does something different: it extracts the binary representation of the floating-point number. That is, it is extracting the raw bits involved.
I just watched a couple of South Park clips. One was brand-spankin' new, just from tonight, but the other one was quite old---and there are quite a few copies at that. Try it yourself: my search term was "south park" "steve irwin"
Sounds like they have some work left to do, if they're actually serious about doing it.
Actually, it seems to me that, in this case at least, there is a more benign explanation.
I don't think the issue is that the AA API stuff is buried in the innards of IE7. The nature of the proposed fix suggests that the AA API stuff is now being moved to the system when IE7 is iinstalled, so that all applications can share it.
Flight Simulator's version of the DLL is old and incompatible; so by moving it out of the way, FS 2004 can now access the centralized DLL.
Yeah, messy, but if anything, it's a step towards orthogonality.
Do you really think the impact on the earth by a ton of greenhouse gasses is any different if they are emitted by one person or ten people?
It's still a ton. So this per capita analysis is, for the earth's sake, nonsense.
In fact, the per capita imbalance only means that it is that much more likely that China and India will totally overwhelm the U.S. and E.U. in total emissions, as their per capita numbers come closer to ours.
Please don't misunderstand---I think this sucks, and I definitely support a boycott of ICT-enabled discs. (As I pointed out in another post, ICT is optional, and will be enabled on a studio-by-studio basis; and some studios have already said they will not use it.)
However, many of those same first-gen HDTVs with only component inputs are already crippled, in the sense that they really only extract 540 lines of resolution from a 1080i signal (because they do only "bob" deinterlacing of 1080i content). As a result, only the loss in horizontal resolution will be apparent, if that.
One thing that's important to point out is this: ICT, the system that does this downrezzing, is optional. Not only that, but each title is required to display an ICT logo on the case if it uses it. So you'll know before you buy a title if it downrezzes or not.
Furthermore, each studio has a different opinion about ICT. In an ironic twist, Fox Studios---the one who typically is the most severe about copy protection---has publicly stated that they don't intend to use ICT.
So there is real potential for market pressure to keep ICT from being used widely. If people boycott just those titles that employ ICT, there could be real incentive for studios to wake up.
I think that the point they are making is that India has demand for IT workers internally; that is, not originating from a foreign company. Obviously, every IT worker that works on an outsourced job is one unavailable for "internal" use, and vice versa.
Actually, I hope that the Supreme Court refused to hear the case because it was none of their business. If this is something legislation can fix, and situation is not in itself unconstitutional, then the Supreme Court ought to stay out of it. Just because a situation sucks doesn't make it unconstitutional.
Alas, because I finished my work there in early '02 (and even then only as a part-time consultant), and because my work was limited to the PHY layer, not the MAC, there's a lot I really don't know. I have since not been involved in 802.11 in any capacity.
However, 802.11-pren stuff really does play nice with existing 802.11b/g gear. It doesn't hijack the packet timing or anything like that. It was designed that way from the start; admittedly at a cost of performance, but they seem to be making it up in other ways. I don't know what kind of work they're doing on the MAC side.
Also, I use the Belkin 802.11-pren wireless router and laptop card, which use the Airgo chipset. I also have two 802.11b modems on the same access point (well, I did until one burned out---not Belkin/Airgo's fault). I've noticed no degradation with the 802.11b cards; in fact, the claim is that the range should be better, but I haven't really verified that. The 802.11-pren connection is CLEARLY faster, I'd say 4-5 times in my case.
But what this article talks about is actually a generation AFTER their first 802.11-pren offering. They seem to be promising yet another speed boost.
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AC, I see your point and I didn't intend to come across sounding religious. It's my personal belief that at the macro level, the environment is more than capable of supporting whatever we want to do with it, as long we take some reasonable precautions. I'm not saying we ought to eliminate our use of toilet paper or stop filling landfills. My response was really intended as a counter to the previous poster's assumption that somehow we must do something about global warming even if it could be demonstrated we aren't the cause.
Your position coincides with that of the Der Speigel article in some key ways. I mean, if we look at the issue as a matter of human self-interest, then it could very well be that global warming is a net positive. Note that the most severe alarmists would have us believe that the world as we know it will be gone, and mankind along with it. I've never bought that and I think most levelheaded people shouldn't either.
It doesn't really matter whether the cause of the warming is anthropogenic or not; unless you're going to debate that the planet is not getting warmer -- and it doesn't seem like you are -- we still have a serious problem on our hands.
It most certainly matters that we understand the degree to which warming is anthropogenic, because that understanding helps us to determine what kind of solution we should seek. If we are not the cause, then it's not even obvious we should. We should be acting to reduce our impact on the environment, not strengthen it.
If the warming trend is natural, then we're just going to have to deal with it. That is, if our CO2 output is not an appreciable contributor to the current warming trend, then all of the money we're currently shifting towards greenhouse gas reduction efforts ought to be spent on, say, determining which areas of the world will be uninhabitable in 50-100 years, and moving people away from there... or finding cures for any diseases which are likely to proliferate more widely as a result.
(And if it's not anthropogenic, then we're probably screwed even further, because it's probably a lot more difficult to reverse the process.)
I am absolutely certain that any of the 802.11-pren and 802.11-draftn implementations that use the Airgo Networks (now Qualcomm) chipsets do true spatial multiplexing with multiple input and output antennas (MIMO), NOT just "fancy antenna selection" as you put it. I know because I contributed to the design of their first-gen RX implementation. They've never NOT done it. Of course, the chip also supports non-MIMO modes for back-compatability with older access points.
I am almost as certain that other implementations use MIMO as well. But of course since I wasn't on the inside I cannot say. Still, it's pretty much the only way to get more than 54mbps over 802.11 without channel bonding.
If you did what you suggest---go to a bunch of open WAPs and do child porn searches---then none of the people you target will ultimately get in trouble. They might get their homes searched, but the FBI wouldn't find any evidence of child porn, because you're long gone.
Furthermore your second paragraph isn't a fair characterization of what happened here. The cops aren't going around searching for open WAPs. It was the defense that brought this argument, not the cops. The allegedly illegal IM traffic came from the defendant's IP address, and he used the open WAP argument to suggest that since it could have been a drive-by or neighbor, that they didn't have enough evidence to search his house. Well, they may not have had enough evidence to convict, certainly---but you don't need nearly as much to get the search warrant. I frankly agree with that decision. The evidence stated that a crime was committed in the vicinity of that house.
Oh, by all means, given the choice between an old-fashioned tower or rack-mounted PC and a mini, I'd take the mini. Thankfully there is another choice, as you point out.
Well, I prefer a standard A/V stack form factor, frankly. I have a mac mini in my system, but it just doesn't look right next to all the rest of the gear. I do agree with you about noise though---it's gotta be quiet.
It has been so successful that HP is dropping the line? Something tells me that the editorial writer differs with HP about how it should count its beans.
Well, I don't know. If I were gonna lie, I'd make up a better one than that.
then watch the Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld. Or more specifically, fast forward to 1:34:35 and watch Stan Sigman, the CEO of Cingular Wireless. Two things struck me. The first was his admission that they entered into the contract with Apple without ever seeing the device. I mean, damn, that's a sales job. And the second was my general expression that he just seemed like such a fish out of water at MacWorld. The way he consulted his note cards, his stilted delivery, his tilt towards marketing over technology, and so forth. Mr. Sigman is an old-time phone company wonk, and it showed.
But they also know that the value that YouTube is creating with their service is gigantic. That is: sure, YouTube is sending Viacom some free business---but YouTube has the potential to make far more than that themselves.
Put another way, YouTube has far more to lose here than Viacom does.
So Viacom is in fact quite smart to push hard for some sort of revenue stream from YouTube for their content.
Uhh, that's what they're doing. EEStor is not in the car business, they're in the ultracapacitor business.
Oh man.. as if tossing a charged capacitor to an unsuspecting victim wasn't funny enough already.
I just don't get this danger angle. I mean, yes, charged high-voltage capacitors can be dangerous. So can bottles of gasoline with flaming pieces of cloth stuffed in the neck. And yet, none of us seems to be particularly freaked out by a fifteen-gallon can of gasoline strapped under our butts when we're driving---even with thousands of tiny explosions occurring per minute under the hood in front of us.
I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned about the safety issues---just that I think we can be reasonably confident that the obvious ones will be licked if this comes out to market.
The 10x comment must be pretty rough. From the article, the EEStor ultracaps will come in at 280Wh/kg, with Li-ion at 120Wh/kg and 32Wh/kh. So really, it's more like 2.3x the density of Li-ion. I dunno, that doesn't seem that far to me.
I see the claim about charging in 10 minutes---but I've never seen them claim that will happen at home. It is indeed quite clear, as you've figured out yourself, that a residential hookup just doesn't have the capacity for a fast charge. But frankly, that's not that big of a deal, because in practice it will not be impractical to recharge a car at home over the course of hours.
It's when you're on a long trip and you need to refill and go that you'll be wishing for a filling station with an ultracap-compatible, high-power electrical supply---for which you'd likely be willing to pay a premium kWh rate.
OK, my subject is flippant, but it is also serious. The alternative you are proposing simply extracts an integer approximation to the float x. The code as written does something different: it extracts the binary representation of the floating-point number. That is, it is extracting the raw bits involved.
I just watched a couple of South Park clips. One was brand-spankin' new, just from tonight, but the other one was quite old---and there are quite a few copies at that. Try it yourself: my search term was "south park" "steve irwin"
Sounds like they have some work left to do, if they're actually serious about doing it.
Actually, it seems to me that, in this case at least, there is a more benign explanation.
I don't think the issue is that the AA API stuff is buried in the innards of IE7. The nature of the proposed fix suggests that the AA API stuff is now being moved to the system when IE7 is iinstalled, so that all applications can share it.
Flight Simulator's version of the DLL is old and incompatible; so by moving it out of the way, FS 2004 can now access the centralized DLL.
Yeah, messy, but if anything, it's a step towards orthogonality.
Do you really think the impact on the earth by a ton of greenhouse gasses is any different if they are emitted by one person or ten people?
It's still a ton. So this per capita analysis is, for the earth's sake, nonsense.
In fact, the per capita imbalance only means that it is that much more likely that China and India will totally overwhelm the U.S. and E.U. in total emissions, as their per capita numbers come closer to ours.
Thanks for reinforcing his point.
Please don't misunderstand---I think this sucks, and I definitely support a boycott of ICT-enabled discs. (As I pointed out in another post, ICT is optional, and will be enabled on a studio-by-studio basis; and some studios have already said they will not use it.)
However, many of those same first-gen HDTVs with only component inputs are already crippled, in the sense that they really only extract 540 lines of resolution from a 1080i signal (because they do only "bob" deinterlacing of 1080i content). As a result, only the loss in horizontal resolution will be apparent, if that.
Furthermore, each studio has a different opinion about ICT. In an ironic twist, Fox Studios---the one who typically is the most severe about copy protection---has publicly stated that they don't intend to use ICT.
So there is real potential for market pressure to keep ICT from being used widely. If people boycott just those titles that employ ICT, there could be real incentive for studios to wake up.
this software is going to be able to keep its name if it gets even remotely popular. I can't help but think Microsoft will come down on him hard.
I think that the point they are making is that India has demand for IT workers internally; that is, not originating from a foreign company. Obviously, every IT worker that works on an outsourced job is one unavailable for "internal" use, and vice versa.
Actually, I hope that the Supreme Court refused to hear the case because it was none of their business. If this is something legislation can fix, and situation is not in itself unconstitutional, then the Supreme Court ought to stay out of it. Just because a situation sucks doesn't make it unconstitutional.
Hey kid! Thanks.
Alas, because I finished my work there in early '02 (and even then only as a part-time consultant), and because my work was limited to the PHY layer, not the MAC, there's a lot I really don't know. I have since not been involved in 802.11 in any capacity.
However, 802.11-pren stuff really does play nice with existing 802.11b/g gear. It doesn't hijack the packet timing or anything like that. It was designed that way from the start; admittedly at a cost of performance, but they seem to be making it up in other ways. I don't know what kind of work they're doing on the MAC side.
Also, I use the Belkin 802.11-pren wireless router and laptop card, which use the Airgo chipset. I also have two 802.11b modems on the same access point (well, I did until one burned out---not Belkin/Airgo's fault). I've noticed no degradation with the 802.11b cards; in fact, the claim is that the range should be better, but I haven't really verified that. The 802.11-pren connection is CLEARLY faster, I'd say 4-5 times in my case.
But what this article talks about is actually a generation AFTER their first 802.11-pren offering. They seem to be promising yet another speed boost.