It is unreasonable for them to throttle anything due to lack of infrastructure while simultaneously sporting enormous profit margins.
You can have one, but not both. If they need more infrastructure they should build it.
So it's OK for you if your daughter can't call the police to come help her when she has an accident on the highway because 5 or 100 other users in the same cell are downloading porn right now?
Wireless providers *have* to throttle to protect the voice network for public-safety purposes.
Self regulation usually does not end well for the consumer. Imagine allowing power plants and oil refineries to determine what chemicals they could pour into the air. Would they have the population's best interest at heart when making that determination?
That's not an apt comparison because power plants are refineries are paid for what they deliver and what you are concerned about regulating is an unwanted byproduct of their operations. With data service, your bits getting to and from your devices is both what you are proposing regulating and what they are selling. Sure, there's an inherent conflict between what they want (to get as much money from you for service under the most favorable to them terms) and what you want (getting your data fast and cheap without restrictions of any kind, or according to restrictions you can dictate). But that's the case in every other commercial transaction as well. There's a need to protect consumers from such unfair practices as abusing monopoly power to drive up prices higher than could be sustained in a competitive market, lock-in, charging you for access to your own data, unreasonable tarriffing of data from outside networks, uneven and deceptive price models and unfair cost shifting. But these are unrelated to problems like pollution.
In the future when the infrastructure can match the demand, what will stop internet providers from picking winners and losers over their wireless networks? As conglomerates like Comcast gobble up content providers like NBC, a conflict of interest begins to emerge. There would be nothing from stopping one of the big wireless providers like AT&T or Verizon from scooping up a content provider and prioritizing its data speed over the network.
I don't foresee a future where the infrastructure can match demand. As capacity grows, people will demand more data services from more mobile devices and saturate the capacity unless pricing prevents them from doing so, and prices in a free market would normally be be set such that they fall a short of saturation.
I think comparing the 100-byte chunks would be almost as effective and save 99.9% of the file-compare time.
One can resort to more exacting methods in the small fraction of the time when they match.
No, it's not all smoke and mirrors. Lower frequencies are valuable for their ability to be received by using relatively large omnidirectional antennas. At higher frequency, you must overcome this by either using much more broadcast power or by using a high gain (directional) antenna. Conversely, microwave and mmwave antennas *can* be made highly directive using relatively small antennas which allows the same frequency to be used in spatial diversity schemes so that multiple users can share spectrum without interference.
We can keep increasing the limit until they reach the safety levels we enjoy today! But at least your car will automatically slow down when weather conditions are bad and might even refuse to take you out on the road if they're bad enough and there's no emergency.
Not safe right now... the difference being is that we can make continually make self driving cars more safe, since driving only requires a set of rules and environmental awareness. Humans will never become more safe, in general, because they are inherently mistake prone due to fatigue, poor judgement, distractions, intoxication, and many other factors.
With that I'll agree. But standards have to be in place to ensure that whatever machine drivers you put on the roads, they are at least no worse than human beings.
Just look at the wonders of automated flight. Most airline accidents that aren't due to terrorism or mechanical malfunction are due to pilots overriding the autopilots.
Do you have a cite for that? It's not that I doubt your word so much as I think you're making shit up. Because my understanding is that most accidents happen during takeoff and landing where autopilots aren't routinely used and that weather is a big factor in many accidents:
http://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/
or when the rest of you see one of these stories predicting about the demise of desktops, laptops and every other device with a precise user interface and non-negligible computing capacity, do you just want to shoot yourself?
They're probably not equipped to fix the problem and new tools will have to be sent. If you or I were up there, we'd want a tool set that could disassemble and reassemble and repair every part of the station and a big box of spares for everything. That's not what they have.
Vacuum welding takes time. I doubt that's the problem. Either the fit is too tight (tolerances were calculated wrong) or they've crossthreaded it. Easy to do the latter when working in space with clumsy gloves while afraid you're going to drop the nut and it will fly off in a different orbit.
Maybe if the can apply heat to the nut it will loosen to the point where it turns more easily and take it off. Use a die to clean up an repair the bolt's threads. Send up another nut on the next trip that's tapped out a couple mils oversize, with graphite or maybe buckyball lubricant and a split-ring washer to hold it in place.
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Having to save was fine back in the days when it took 20 seconds to save to disk. These days, every change should be able to be saved and logged to a change log on a second by second basis. Saving should be banished and everything should be able to be rolled forward and back. People keep saying computers are more than fast enough, so put that extra power to actual useful things.
Unless you're working with big files. The DRAM on my computer can easily handle 2GB files. At SATA3 data transmission rates, it would take more than 3 seconds to transmit over the bus, but the devices in typical computers can't keep up with SATA3 on a sustained basis. If you have 8GB RAM, you need 8GB to cache it and it takes more than 12 seconds on a typical system. Not to mention that the caching operation can't take place without interrupting whatever process you're doing because it requires the bus. You'd need a different architecture with an independent bus to minimize the impact of the caching operations on the foreground processes.
Also - WTF - this should never be patentable.
This is not an invention worthy of patent.
It does nothing novel that is not implicit in the problem statement.
'I want a non-volatile RAM'.
So what? The PROBLEM is obvious. You shouldn't be able to patent the idea of a FLASH-backed DRAM module, but if you do something clever to make it work, that cleverness can be patented, so anybody else who makes a flash-backed DRAM module will have to do it another way.
Just read the article. The product is a FLASH-backed DDR2 or DDR3 module. It's supposed to offload your data to FLASH when you lose power. It might even work. Of course it will not have the same storage density as DDR2 or DDR3 modules can have because there are extra FLASH chips on it.
If you can survive the heat, so can your electronics. Leaving it in your car is about the worst thing you can do. A car in the sun gets WAY hotter than ambient. If you can't keep them with you, make sure they are stored in a place that's in the shade and has free air circulation so it can't get much hotter than ambient.
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It is unreasonable for them to throttle anything due to lack of infrastructure while simultaneously sporting enormous profit margins.
You can have one, but not both. If they need more infrastructure they should build it.
So it's OK for you if your daughter can't call the police to come help her when she has an accident on the highway because 5 or 100 other users in the same cell are downloading porn right now? Wireless providers *have* to throttle to protect the voice network for public-safety purposes.
The most reasonable way to control that behavior is throttling sufficient to allow other users to continue to have access AND charging per bit.
Self regulation usually does not end well for the consumer. Imagine allowing power plants and oil refineries to determine what chemicals they could pour into the air. Would they have the population's best interest at heart when making that determination?
That's not an apt comparison because power plants are refineries are paid for what they deliver and what you are concerned about regulating is an unwanted byproduct of their operations. With data service, your bits getting to and from your devices is both what you are proposing regulating and what they are selling. Sure, there's an inherent conflict between what they want (to get as much money from you for service under the most favorable to them terms) and what you want (getting your data fast and cheap without restrictions of any kind, or according to restrictions you can dictate). But that's the case in every other commercial transaction as well. There's a need to protect consumers from such unfair practices as abusing monopoly power to drive up prices higher than could be sustained in a competitive market, lock-in, charging you for access to your own data, unreasonable tarriffing of data from outside networks, uneven and deceptive price models and unfair cost shifting. But these are unrelated to problems like pollution.
In the future when the infrastructure can match the demand, what will stop internet providers from picking winners and losers over their wireless networks? As conglomerates like Comcast gobble up content providers like NBC, a conflict of interest begins to emerge. There would be nothing from stopping one of the big wireless providers like AT&T or Verizon from scooping up a content provider and prioritizing its data speed over the network.
I don't foresee a future where the infrastructure can match demand. As capacity grows, people will demand more data services from more mobile devices and saturate the capacity unless pricing prevents them from doing so, and prices in a free market would normally be be set such that they fall a short of saturation.
I think comparing the 100-byte chunks would be almost as effective and save 99.9% of the file-compare time. One can resort to more exacting methods in the small fraction of the time when they match.
No, it's not all smoke and mirrors. Lower frequencies are valuable for their ability to be received by using relatively large omnidirectional antennas. At higher frequency, you must overcome this by either using much more broadcast power or by using a high gain (directional) antenna. Conversely, microwave and mmwave antennas *can* be made highly directive using relatively small antennas which allows the same frequency to be used in spatial diversity schemes so that multiple users can share spectrum without interference.
We can keep increasing the limit until they reach the safety levels we enjoy today! But at least your car will automatically slow down when weather conditions are bad and might even refuse to take you out on the road if they're bad enough and there's no emergency.
Self-driving cars will eventually be the majority.
I don't see why they would be. I think manually operated cars will continue to be much cheaper.
Not safe right now... the difference being is that we can make continually make self driving cars more safe, since driving only requires a set of rules and environmental awareness. Humans will never become more safe, in general, because they are inherently mistake prone due to fatigue, poor judgement, distractions, intoxication, and many other factors.
With that I'll agree. But standards have to be in place to ensure that whatever machine drivers you put on the roads, they are at least no worse than human beings.
Just look at the wonders of automated flight. Most airline accidents that aren't due to terrorism or mechanical malfunction are due to pilots overriding the autopilots.
Do you have a cite for that? It's not that I doubt your word so much as I think you're making shit up. Because my understanding is that most accidents happen during takeoff and landing where autopilots aren't routinely used and that weather is a big factor in many accidents: http://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/
* It fits in my purse.
or when the rest of you see one of these stories predicting about the demise of desktops, laptops and every other device with a precise user interface and non-negligible computing capacity, do you just want to shoot yourself?
They're probably not equipped to fix the problem and new tools will have to be sent. If you or I were up there, we'd want a tool set that could disassemble and reassemble and repair every part of the station and a big box of spares for everything. That's not what they have.
Vacuum welding takes time. I doubt that's the problem. Either the fit is too tight (tolerances were calculated wrong) or they've crossthreaded it. Easy to do the latter when working in space with clumsy gloves while afraid you're going to drop the nut and it will fly off in a different orbit.
Maybe if the can apply heat to the nut it will loosen to the point where it turns more easily and take it off. Use a die to clean up an repair the bolt's threads. Send up another nut on the next trip that's tapped out a couple mils oversize, with graphite or maybe buckyball lubricant and a split-ring washer to hold it in place.
Rat terrier security perimeter around the camp.
Chihuahuas in the Southwest.
+1 Sick
Pretty sure fashion models use one or more of the previous five. This gives them poisoning as a sixth option.
Sam Kass, White House Assistant Chef and the Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives, after much buzz, today released the recipe for White House Honey Ale and White House Honey Porter...
I see what you did there.
better experiment: send a spacecraft so much closer that any solar effect on decay rates swamps the other possible effects.
From most to least plausible order:
Random accidental correlation that cannot be repeated in independent experiments
Detector noise caused by Sun.
Solar neutrinos catalyze decay.
Undiscovered particles (dark matter) interaction catalyzes decay.
Gravity affects decay rates differently than relativity predicts.
Gravity affects clocks differently than relativity predicts.
Having to save was fine back in the days when it took 20 seconds to save to disk. These days, every change should be able to be saved and logged to a change log on a second by second basis. Saving should be banished and everything should be able to be rolled forward and back. People keep saying computers are more than fast enough, so put that extra power to actual useful things.
Unless you're working with big files. The DRAM on my computer can easily handle 2GB files. At SATA3 data transmission rates, it would take more than 3 seconds to transmit over the bus, but the devices in typical computers can't keep up with SATA3 on a sustained basis. If you have 8GB RAM, you need 8GB to cache it and it takes more than 12 seconds on a typical system. Not to mention that the caching operation can't take place without interrupting whatever process you're doing because it requires the bus. You'd need a different architecture with an independent bus to minimize the impact of the caching operations on the foreground processes.
Also - WTF - this should never be patentable. This is not an invention worthy of patent. It does nothing novel that is not implicit in the problem statement. 'I want a non-volatile RAM'.
So what? The PROBLEM is obvious. You shouldn't be able to patent the idea of a FLASH-backed DRAM module, but if you do something clever to make it work, that cleverness can be patented, so anybody else who makes a flash-backed DRAM module will have to do it another way.
Smaller, lighter, more portable. Possibly higher bandwidth in preloading your RAM when booting.
Just read the article. The product is a FLASH-backed DDR2 or DDR3 module. It's supposed to offload your data to FLASH when you lose power. It might even work. Of course it will not have the same storage density as DDR2 or DDR3 modules can have because there are extra FLASH chips on it.
WTF is a non-volatile dynamic RAM?
If you can survive the heat, so can your electronics. Leaving it in your car is about the worst thing you can do. A car in the sun gets WAY hotter than ambient. If you can't keep them with you, make sure they are stored in a place that's in the shade and has free air circulation so it can't get much hotter than ambient.