Fiber isn't the only solution. Cable companies here in the US are starting to run Docsis 3 over coaxial cable, which can easily support speeds of 50megs over the "last mile".
DOCSIS 2.x modems can do 25 Mbps over existing coax. I have one, with a 20/7 Mbps plan, and routinely get between 2 and 2.5 MBps (aka ~20 Mbps) at all times during the day.
I haven't switched to a DOCSIS 3.x plan as they all have lower upload speeds in our area (25/0.5 Mbps to 50/2.5 Mbps; it's only expensive 100/17 Mbps plans that have better upload).
Please don't lump the West Coast telecoms companies with the East Coast telecoms companies.
Shaw is doing some amazing things out West, and has been stringing fibre pretty much everywhere it can. 20/7 Mbps links are under $80 with many deals for less. And they have plans all the way up to 250 Mbs down.
And, since Shaw has been doing all these upgrades the past 2-3 years, Telus has been forced to start stringing their own fibre around everywhere. While their ADSL is still limited to around 15/1 Mbps, their Optik fibre is becoming more affordable and more accessible. Vancouver, at least, has access to 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps plans. And it's moving into the BC Interior this year.
Just because Bell/Rogers are dicks about their Internet service in the East doesn't mean all of them are.
Plus, Bell/Telus and Rogers Wireless have been expanding their HSPA+ and LTE wireless coverage out here in the West. There's even 1700 km of new wireless coverage by Bell/Telus on the highways out here in BC this year.
Sick and tired of being wallet-raped by the telcos in the East? Then move out West!:)
Every gas pump in BC and Alberta (possibly all of Canada), shows the price breakdown for a litre of gas (federal taxes and fees, provincial taxes and fees, regional taxes and fees, and the little bit left as profit).
I haven't personally played with the multiple user accounts support in Android 4.2, but from what I've read about it online, it already does everything that you want (with the exception of completely separate OSes).
Each account has their own separate filesystem space that is not accessible to other accounts. Each account has its own Play store account. Each account has their own separate apps installed. Etc.
Or, I don't know, just upgrade to Android 4.2 which includes multiple user accounts on a single machine, each with their own apps, data, profiles, etc.
Want a skookum gaming PC? Better hope the mobo supports two PCIe x16 slots, preferrably separated enough to allow 2 double-wide videocards.
Want a skookum storage box? Better hope the mobo supports more than four PCIe x8 slots. There's a SuperMicro board that support 7 of those, which you can stuff with LSI 9211-8 or 9211-16 SATA controllers.:)
Want a skookum router/firewall? Better hope that mobo has dual gigabit NICs onboard. Or, at least enough x1 and x4 PCIe slots to handle the NICs you install.
You also need to watch how many memory channels there are (2, 3, 4?) and also how many separate sockets (in case you want more than 1 CPU).
There's a lot more to "a PC" than just "any ol' mobo + some CPU + some RAM". Especially once you get out of the "all I do is e-mail and Facebook" realm.
If you get really bored, dip gold fish in whiskey before dropping them in the tank with the Oscar.:) They do funny things when they're drunk. 3 whiskey-soaked gold fish seems to be the limit, though.:D Never knew fish could swim while lying sideways until we did that.
There are two type of ARM licenses: CPU architecture license, and CPU 'hardware' license.
Samsung and TI license hardware IP from ARM, basically using ARM's 'building blocks' to build SoCs. Thier current SoCs are basically bog-standard Cortex-A9s.
Qualcomm and Apple license the architecture and instruction set from ARM but build their own custom CPUs and SoCs. Thier CPUs are better than Cortex-A9s, but slightly less than Cortex-A15s.
Tell that to all the people who happily upgraded from MS Office 6 (version number) to MS Office 95 (name change) to MS Office XP (name change) to MS Office 2003 (name change) to MS Office 2007 (name change) to MS Office 2010 (name change) to MS Office 14 (version number).
Not really that different going from OpenOffice to LibreOffice (name change).
But the man page points to info. And the info page points to a website. And the website is currently slashdotted. And there's no source code for either tooth(4) or skyfairy(4). So what's a hacker supposed to do?
Maybe in the East (which tends to consider itself separate from the rest of Canada).
Here in the West, you hear "couple of loonies", "couple of twonies", "a loonie or two", and so forth for values under $5. You'll even see "loonie bin" and "twonie bin" for the value items in some stores.
Once you get over $5, though, then it's all dollars, bucks, etc.
Problem with Wind is network coverage. If you aren't in one of the 6 major cities in Canada... you're roaming. And Wind's roaming charges aren't tiny.
Rogers may not be the best telco out there, but at least they have coverage in major cities, minor cities, and most little towns. Highway coverage between towns is spotty. But at least there's some.
Plus, Rogers has LTE across all the major cities, with most of the minor cities going online this year, and the tiny towns getting it next year.
The only real downside to Rogers these days is that you still have to pay for voicemail and call display separately.:(
Oh, you mean like Shoot'em Up? Watching that show was like watching someone play a FPS. There's was just enough plot/story to keep the camera moving from one shoot-out to the next, with the same kind of one-liners and catch-phrases you hear in FPS voice-overs.
Ah, but you are uploading "chunks", which tend to be either 128 KB or 1 MB in size. Compared to the average size of a file (say 800 MB), that's very small, and could be considered "fair use". After all, is sharing under 1% if the work really considered infringement?
Oh, and it is possible to disable uploads. You can't totally disable people connecting to you, but you can block the uploads.
Now, if they can show that you shared 100% of the file with a single person, that's infringement for sure. But is sharing sub-1% chunks with a thousand people infringement?
Before ActiveSync, you needed a hodge-podge of protocols and services to sync your e-mail, calendar, contacts, todo lists, etc, etc, etc to a phone. Walking people through that over a phone was not a lot of fun. Especially since every phone supported things just a little differently. And you had to open up a slew of ports on the firewall.
After ActiveSync, you only needed 1 protocol to sync all of the above, the phone calls became a lot simpler, and only 1 port needed to be open on the firewall.
Yeah, it's so horrible having to support ActiveSync!
The GPU core in the mobile (as in phone/tablet) Atom (aka Medfield) is a PowerVR SGX540. And the GPU core in several mobile (as in netbook) Atoms are PowerVR as well. There's only a couple of versions of the Atom CPU that include Intel GPUs.
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DOCSIS 2.x modems can do 25 Mbps over existing coax. I have one, with a 20/7 Mbps plan, and routinely get between 2 and 2.5 MBps (aka ~20 Mbps) at all times during the day. I haven't switched to a DOCSIS 3.x plan as they all have lower upload speeds in our area (25/0.5 Mbps to 50/2.5 Mbps; it's only expensive 100/17 Mbps plans that have better upload).
Please don't lump the West Coast telecoms companies with the East Coast telecoms companies.
Shaw is doing some amazing things out West, and has been stringing fibre pretty much everywhere it can. 20/7 Mbps links are under $80 with many deals for less. And they have plans all the way up to 250 Mbs down.
And, since Shaw has been doing all these upgrades the past 2-3 years, Telus has been forced to start stringing their own fibre around everywhere. While their ADSL is still limited to around 15/1 Mbps, their Optik fibre is becoming more affordable and more accessible. Vancouver, at least, has access to 50 Mbps and 100 Mbps plans. And it's moving into the BC Interior this year.
Just because Bell/Rogers are dicks about their Internet service in the East doesn't mean all of them are.
Plus, Bell/Telus and Rogers Wireless have been expanding their HSPA+ and LTE wireless coverage out here in the West. There's even 1700 km of new wireless coverage by Bell/Telus on the highways out here in BC this year.
Sick and tired of being wallet-raped by the telcos in the East? Then move out West! :)
https://www.google.ca/search?q=lawsuit+over+disk+usage+on+surface+tablets
MS is being taken to court over this already.
And for the polar bear on the twonie? ;)
Every gas pump in BC and Alberta (possibly all of Canada), shows the price breakdown for a litre of gas (federal taxes and fees, provincial taxes and fees, regional taxes and fees, and the little bit left as profit).
Sucks to be you! Move to Canada!
Rogers SGSIII users just got an OTA update to 4.1.1. Bell and Telus SGSII users are getting theirs this week.
Although, I believe the AT&T version is getting it this month.
I haven't personally played with the multiple user accounts support in Android 4.2, but from what I've read about it online, it already does everything that you want (with the exception of completely separate OSes).
Each account has their own separate filesystem space that is not accessible to other accounts. Each account has its own Play store account. Each account has their own separate apps installed. Etc.
Or, I don't know, just upgrade to Android 4.2 which includes multiple user accounts on a single machine, each with their own apps, data, profiles, etc.
Android 4.2 (at least on tablets) supports multiple users. Not sure if this feature is enabled on phones (4.1.2 is the latest I've used).
Not sure why you'd need a hypervisor.
Number and type of PCIe slots is very important.
Want a skookum gaming PC? Better hope the mobo supports two PCIe x16 slots, preferrably separated enough to allow 2 double-wide videocards.
Want a skookum storage box? Better hope the mobo supports more than four PCIe x8 slots. There's a SuperMicro board that support 7 of those, which you can stuff with LSI 9211-8 or 9211-16 SATA controllers. :)
Want a skookum router/firewall? Better hope that mobo has dual gigabit NICs onboard. Or, at least enough x1 and x4 PCIe slots to handle the NICs you install.
You also need to watch how many memory channels there are (2, 3, 4?) and also how many separate sockets (in case you want more than 1 CPU).
There's a lot more to "a PC" than just "any ol' mobo + some CPU + some RAM". Especially once you get out of the "all I do is e-mail and Facebook" realm.
If you get really bored, dip gold fish in whiskey before dropping them in the tank with the Oscar. :) They do funny things when they're drunk. 3 whiskey-soaked gold fish seems to be the limit, though. :D Never knew fish could swim while lying sideways until we did that.
Not true for GSM networks.
All you need is a phone that supports the GSM bands the carrier uses, and slip in a SIM card from that carrier, and the phone will work just fine.
It's the SIM card that controls access to the network, not the phone.
Samsung uses Qualcomm SoCs in North America because Qualcomm's the only one that has a single-chip SoC with LTE integrated.
Nobody else has a 1-chip SoC including LTE. nVidia is close to integrating Icera radios into a Tegra SoC, but it's not commercially available yet.
Next year will be interesting as several LTE-solutions are coming.
Uhm, not even close.
There are two type of ARM licenses: CPU architecture license, and CPU 'hardware' license.
Samsung and TI license hardware IP from ARM, basically using ARM's 'building blocks' to build SoCs. Thier current SoCs are basically bog-standard Cortex-A9s.
Qualcomm and Apple license the architecture and instruction set from ARM but build their own custom CPUs and SoCs. Thier CPUs are better than Cortex-A9s, but slightly less than Cortex-A15s.
AMD had an ARM license and SoC division which they sold to Qualcomm. The Adreno GPU inside each Snapdragon SoC is derived from AMD IP.
Tell that to all the people who happily upgraded from MS Office 6 (version number) to MS Office 95 (name change) to MS Office XP (name change) to MS Office 2003 (name change) to MS Office 2007 (name change) to MS Office 2010 (name change) to MS Office 14 (version number).
Not really that different going from OpenOffice to LibreOffice (name change).
But the man page points to info. And the info page points to a website. And the website is currently slashdotted. And there's no source code for either tooth(4) or skyfairy(4). So what's a hacker supposed to do?
Considering the anymosity between BC and AB right now over the whole Northern Gateway pipeline, "the West" is really only BC. ;)
Just like how "Canada" is really only ON.
Maybe in the East (which tends to consider itself separate from the rest of Canada).
Here in the West, you hear "couple of loonies", "couple of twonies", "a loonie or two", and so forth for values under $5. You'll even see "loonie bin" and "twonie bin" for the value items in some stores.
Once you get over $5, though, then it's all dollars, bucks, etc.
Problem with Wind is network coverage. If you aren't in one of the 6 major cities in Canada ... you're roaming. And Wind's roaming charges aren't tiny.
Rogers may not be the best telco out there, but at least they have coverage in major cities, minor cities, and most little towns. Highway coverage between towns is spotty. But at least there's some.
Plus, Rogers has LTE across all the major cities, with most of the minor cities going online this year, and the tiny towns getting it next year.
The only real downside to Rogers these days is that you still have to pay for voicemail and call display separately. :(
Oh, you mean like Shoot'em Up? Watching that show was like watching someone play a FPS. There's was just enough plot/story to keep the camera moving from one shoot-out to the next, with the same kind of one-liners and catch-phrases you hear in FPS voice-overs.
Ah, but you are uploading "chunks", which tend to be either 128 KB or 1 MB in size. Compared to the average size of a file (say 800 MB), that's very small, and could be considered "fair use". After all, is sharing under 1% if the work really considered infringement?
Oh, and it is possible to disable uploads. You can't totally disable people connecting to you, but you can block the uploads.
Now, if they can show that you shared 100% of the file with a single person, that's infringement for sure. But is sharing sub-1% chunks with a thousand people infringement?
Before ActiveSync, you needed a hodge-podge of protocols and services to sync your e-mail, calendar, contacts, todo lists, etc, etc, etc to a phone. Walking people through that over a phone was not a lot of fun. Especially since every phone supported things just a little differently. And you had to open up a slew of ports on the firewall.
After ActiveSync, you only needed 1 protocol to sync all of the above, the phone calls became a lot simpler, and only 1 port needed to be open on the firewall.
Yeah, it's so horrible having to support ActiveSync!
It'll be interesting when Qualcomm's S4 Pro SoC is released, as it combines the CPU power of the Krait with the GPU power of the Adreno 300-series.
The GPU core in the mobile (as in phone/tablet) Atom (aka Medfield) is a PowerVR SGX540. And the GPU core in several mobile (as in netbook) Atoms are PowerVR as well. There's only a couple of versions of the Atom CPU that include Intel GPUs.