What about breaking it down to areas that are of similar size.
The most densely populated city in Japan is Tokyo. 8 million people in 630 square kilometres (13,000 per k2)
The most densely populated city in the US is New York. 8 million people in 830 square kilometres (10,000 per k2)
The most densely populated city in the world is Seoul. 10 million people in 615 square kilometres (17,000 per k2)
In Tokyo we have 100% ADSL availability offering 40 mbits down there is also limited (~10%) FTTP availability offering 100 mbits
Why is there not even one company attempting to offer something similar in New York, Korea has near 100% availability of dsl and cable yet they too are limited to US like services.
The real reason we have insane connection bandwidth in Japan is because the telecoms monopoly is restricted from price gouging, they must lease there cables at a flat rate irrespective of the amount of data that flows over them.
When I had an ADSL connection I would pay $20 a month to NTT for the ADSL connection, then my ISP could push as much or as little data over that connection as they wished.
Now I have a Fibre connection, I pay $40 a month for the wire, I actually pay $70 a month to my ISP but I get a static IP range and national wireless coverage too over the AirH network.
The reason Japan has stupid fast internet connections, and the second highest broadband penetration in the world? Competition, who would have thought of it.
taking into consideration that japanese people are more likely to want to visit japanese sites rather than american sites the US speeds are more than acceptable.
when downloading using bittorrent I have hit 10MBytes a second on some very popular torrents, they finish very very quickly at those kinds of speeds.
direct downloads, of course these depend on the originating servers, in japan I can on occasion hit 5+ Mbytes a second (ftp.jp.freebsd.org), from the US I can hit 2 megs on occasion but typically I will hit 500k to 1 meg.
game servers, there is only one consideration when connecting to game servers, ping times, it doesnt matter if you have a 128k connection or a 1gig connetion, all that matters is ping. Ping times within japan are fast but there is a 90 - 100 ms penalty for a transpacific hop.
the problem I am having right now is that my ISP only has 2 international links. one serves south america and asia (all via San Francisco) one servers the rest of the world (all via LA)
the LA link has been buggered stupid for 3 weeks now, it is going into a cable and wireless hub that has been over allocated, connecting to anywhere in north america and europe has been abysmal for 3 weeks, though the last week has improved somewhat.
9 channels devoted exclusively to news; check, cnn, fox, bbc news, itv news, euro news, sky news and more including chinese, arabic and german. 11 channels devoted to science, nature, or history; check, we get the discovery family of channels too. 5 channels devoted to education or public affairs; check, c-span, bbc parliament, multiple history and documentary channels, home improvement / diy (where do these go?) 6 channels devoted to children's programming; check, toonami, cartoon network, fox kids, trouble, cbbc, citv, cbeebies, nick, nick jr, trouble and more. 6 channels devoted to religion and religious affairs; check, multiple god channels in English, various other faith channels and related channels. 3 channels devoted exclusively to providing "family friendly" entertainment; check, hallmark, uk living and the like 2 channels that show nothing but classic old movies; 3 of the 10 odd movie channels we have are TCN and sky cinema, though I think SC are showing slightly more contemporary features now. 7 channels devoted to various genres of music; The Amp, Scuzz, Flaunt, MTV, MTV Hits, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH2, MTV 2, MTV Base, MTV Dance, TMF, The Box, KISS, Smash Hits, Magic, Q, Kerrang!, The Hits, Music Choice (10 channels), Plus over 75 radio channels 9 sports channels; check, does the wrestling channel count here too? a host of specialty channels, including one with nothing but cooking and food-related shows, one channel about home maintenance and improvement, one for fitness and exercise, one for computers and technology, and one entire channel devoted to nothing but golf. check, I think they get more than 2 channels about food, god knows how many home improvement channels health and fitness, men and motors, oh yes and the golf channel (we also have a home shopping channel dedicated to golf).
with almost 250 channels I still agree with the original poster, most of it is recycled garbage.
How long did it take them to unbundle the local loop again ?
Considering oftel were created to oversee the un-bundling of the local loop and specifically chartered with watching BT to make sure they didn't trample on any new companies, I would have to say....
I am quite interested in the quicktime one. How long has that been around, and how is that implemented. Is it actually a swallowed app? If yes I stand corrected.
The doc icons are not swallowed apps, that is correct. But they are another canvas that the app can write on.
rather than just displaying images the app can treat them just like a 128x128 pixel window and draw anything it wants, the OSX doc will then display it scaled to the correct viewl.
advantages over a swallowed app, you can reuse the icon space that was used to launch the app and you can use the standard context menus. disadvantage, they are not directly interactive it is not possible to have forwards and back buttons directly in the icon space only in the sub-menu.
there are other elements to it, but that is the basic context.
for N years XFree86 has been languishing under incompitent leadership and has been resisting the changes that would close the gap between it and other Windowing systems
because it is Open Source software another set of developers could step up to the plate, start there Windowing project and be only 5 years behind the competition a huge head start and a real money saver for the new developers.
This story is an example of the dramatic progress that has been made in the last year under this new leadership and shows what we could have been doing if the previous leadership had there act together. If Xfree86 had been a closed source project none of this new progress could be possible because, like the berlin project, we would still be waiting for the core to be finished.
This is what shows the superiority of Open Source Software
DLLs on the Mac live inside the Application, the application icon on a mac is in fact a folder that when double clicked launches the real application contained within.
This.app folder is called a bundle dir and should contain everything the app needs to run, the system handles shared DLLs in an interesting way, every app includes the DLLs inside its bundle but if multiple apps use the same DLLs the OS will use the one already resident in memory. Early on this caused a significant performance hit when launching apps and now the system will run a Pre-Binding process that will search all bundles for there DLLs and keep them in a central lookup cache.
There are also frameworks, which are essentially collections of DLLs in there own bundle dir, these are like the DLLs in the windows system dir and can be used by any app, it is quite rare for 3rd parties to install frameworks as the standard DLL handling covers most of the benefits that a 3rd part would gain.
Probably more information than you required to answer your question.
Its a good thing the article is talking about full duplex connections then.
Sweden, Korea and Japan are all installing full duplex fiber services directly to peoples homes on a large scale. I am using a 100Mbit fiber connection right now and host multiple websites for friends, one site is using over 2Mbits of bandwidth 24/7 and my ISP contacted me because of my usage and asked if I could take part in a survey to see how they could improve my service.
and they did, I now have an 8 IP address subnet (5 usable, one router) and can configure my own reverse DNS entries.
orac: womby# ping 203.141.142.163 PING 203.141.142.163 (203.141.142.163) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=3.44 ms 64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.88 ms 64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=4.42 ms 64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3.38 ms 64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=3.25 ms
Sacrifice current sales by announcing that the future MCE will kick multiple asses on so many levels that you would be crazy to buy something now.
But other ideas are spot on, multi user features need to be added to the tivo, its the only issue I have ever had, my wife likes romantic comedy, I like kevin smith, my wife likes pop idol, I like poking my eyes out with forks.
What I want is the option to say, "if there is ever a conflict, record what my wife wants". I know who wears the pants in our house, and it isn't me.
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just to note, the pdfs went online yesterday, this review probably been in the queue for longer than 1 day.
bittorrent has proved that just using ftp or http to transfer large amounts of data is not practical in many real situations and has also proved that it is better for a number of those situations
WW is not replacing ftp or http it is trying to bridge the gap between bittorrent and http or ftp
1. bittorrent puts a huge strain on the central tracker as it keeps track of every peer WW would only need to keep track of the proxies 2. bittorrent users on the same local network cant "find" eachother WW knows about the internal and external network 3. bittorrent depends on the peers staying arround for a long time WW is designed to be left running on a gateway 24/7
will it be better or worse than BT we wont know but what we do know is will be better than http caching
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What about breaking it down to areas that are of similar size.
The most densely populated city in Japan is Tokyo. 8 million people in 630 square kilometres (13,000 per k2)
The most densely populated city in the US is New York. 8 million people in 830 square kilometres (10,000 per k2)
The most densely populated city in the world is Seoul. 10 million people in 615 square kilometres (17,000 per k2)
In Tokyo we have 100% ADSL availability offering 40 mbits down
there is also limited (~10%) FTTP availability offering 100 mbits
Why is there not even one company attempting to offer something similar in New York, Korea has near 100% availability of dsl and cable yet they too are limited to US like services.
The real reason we have insane connection bandwidth in Japan is because the telecoms monopoly is restricted from price gouging, they must lease there cables at a flat rate irrespective of the amount of data that flows over them.
When I had an ADSL connection I would pay $20 a month to NTT for the ADSL connection, then my ISP could push as much or as little data over that connection as they wished.
Now I have a Fibre connection, I pay $40 a month for the wire, I actually pay $70 a month to my ISP but I get a static IP range and national wireless coverage too over the AirH network.
The reason Japan has stupid fast internet connections, and the second highest broadband penetration in the world? Competition, who would have thought of it.
taking into consideration that japanese people are more likely to want to visit japanese sites rather than american sites the US speeds are more than acceptable.
when downloading using bittorrent I have hit 10MBytes a second on some very popular torrents, they finish very very quickly at those kinds of speeds.
direct downloads, of course these depend on the originating servers, in japan I can on occasion hit 5+ Mbytes a second (ftp.jp.freebsd.org), from the US I can hit 2 megs on occasion but typically I will hit 500k to 1 meg.
game servers, there is only one consideration when connecting to game servers, ping times, it doesnt matter if you have a 128k connection or a 1gig connetion, all that matters is ping. Ping times within japan are fast but there is a 90 - 100 ms penalty for a transpacific hop.
the problem I am having right now is that my ISP only has 2 international links.
one serves south america and asia (all via San Francisco)
one servers the rest of the world (all via LA)
the LA link has been buggered stupid for 3 weeks now, it is going into a cable and wireless hub that has been over allocated, connecting to anywhere in north america and europe has been abysmal for 3 weeks, though the last week has improved somewhat.
9 channels devoted exclusively to news; ;
check, cnn, fox, bbc news, itv news, euro news, sky news and more including chinese, arabic and german.
11 channels devoted to science, nature, or history;
check, we get the discovery family of channels too.
5 channels devoted to education or public affairs;
check, c-span, bbc parliament, multiple history and documentary channels, home improvement / diy (where do these go?)
6 channels devoted to children's programming;
check, toonami, cartoon network, fox kids, trouble, cbbc, citv, cbeebies, nick, nick jr, trouble and more.
6 channels devoted to religion and religious affairs
check, multiple god channels in English, various other faith channels and related channels.
3 channels devoted exclusively to providing "family friendly" entertainment;
check, hallmark, uk living and the like
2 channels that show nothing but classic old movies;
3 of the 10 odd movie channels we have are TCN and sky cinema, though I think SC are showing slightly more contemporary features now.
7 channels devoted to various genres of music;
The Amp, Scuzz, Flaunt, MTV, MTV Hits, VH1, VH1 Classic, VH2, MTV 2, MTV Base, MTV Dance, TMF, The Box, KISS, Smash Hits, Magic, Q, Kerrang!, The Hits, Music Choice (10 channels), Plus over 75 radio channels
9 sports channels;
check, does the wrestling channel count here too?
a host of specialty channels, including one with nothing but cooking and food-related shows, one channel about home maintenance and improvement, one for fitness and exercise, one for computers and technology, and one entire channel devoted to nothing but golf.
check, I think they get more than 2 channels about food, god knows how many home improvement channels health and fitness, men and motors, oh yes and the golf channel (we also have a home shopping channel dedicated to golf).
with almost 250 channels I still agree with the original poster, most of it is recycled garbage.
But ya know, you wasnt to know all that, its not like the channel information is easily avalable.
which of course kicks me into line
How long did it take them to unbundle the local loop again ?
....
Considering oftel were created to oversee the un-bundling of the local loop and specifically chartered with watching BT to make sure they didn't trample on any new companies, I would have to say
Anywhere from 0 days to -1 year.
I am quite interested in the quicktime one. How long has that been around, and how is that implemented. Is it actually a swallowed app? If yes I stand corrected.
The doc icons are not swallowed apps, that is correct.
But they are another canvas that the app can write on.
rather than just displaying images the app can treat them just like a 128x128 pixel window and draw anything it wants, the OSX doc will then display it scaled to the correct viewl.
advantages over a swallowed app, you can reuse the icon space that was used to launch the app and you can use the standard context menus.
disadvantage, they are not directly interactive it is not possible to have forwards and back buttons directly in the icon space only in the sub-menu.
there are other elements to it, but that is the basic context.
for N years XFree86 has been languishing under incompitent leadership and has been resisting the changes that would close the gap between it and other Windowing systems
because it is Open Source software another set of developers could step up to the plate, start there Windowing project and be only 5 years behind the competition a huge head start and a real money saver for the new developers.
This story is an example of the dramatic progress that has been made in the last year under this new leadership and shows what we could have been doing if the previous leadership had there act together. If Xfree86 had been a closed source project none of this new progress could be possible because, like the berlin project, we would still be waiting for the core to be finished.
This is what shows the superiority of Open Source Software
DLLs on the Mac live inside the Application, the application icon on a mac is in fact a folder that when double clicked launches the real application contained within.
.app folder is called a bundle dir and should contain everything the app needs to run, the system handles shared DLLs in an interesting way, every app includes the DLLs inside its bundle but if multiple apps use the same DLLs the OS will use the one already resident in memory. Early on this caused a significant performance hit when launching apps and now the system will run a Pre-Binding process that will search all bundles for there DLLs and keep them in a central lookup cache.
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There are also frameworks, which are essentially collections of DLLs in there own bundle dir, these are like the DLLs in the windows system dir and can be used by any app, it is quite rare for 3rd parties to install frameworks as the standard DLL handling covers most of the benefits that a 3rd part would gain.
Probably more information than you required to answer your question.
Its a good thing the article is talking about full duplex connections then.
Sweden, Korea and Japan are all installing full duplex fiber services directly to peoples homes on a large scale. I am using a 100Mbit fiber connection right now and host multiple websites for friends, one site is using over 2Mbits of bandwidth 24/7 and my ISP contacted me because of my usage and asked if I could take part in a survey to see how they could improve my service.
and they did, I now have an 8 IP address subnet (5 usable, one router) and can configure my own reverse DNS entries.
give away music, sell bandwidth, seems like a way to make money to me.
NTT seem to be doing ok with latency
orac: womby# ping 203.141.142.163
PING 203.141.142.163 (203.141.142.163) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=3.44 ms
64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=2.88 ms
64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=4.42 ms
64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3.38 ms
64 bytes from 203.141.142.163: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=3.25 ms
its not a misleading story for me, I am living here.
I worked out why, I have apt-get auto update every week and today was the day, it updated apache so I guess it was offline when you tried.
interesting, are you sure, I am sitting here and it appears to be running fine.
the blog itself is running on a small shuttle box and the internet connection is one of the 100Mbit fibre connections mentioned in the article.
wordpress is supposed to scale ok, I have my fingers crossed.
docomo have had a sony phone on the market with a 2megapixel camera for at least a year now.
How the heck is the average person walking into Sam's Club supposed to know there's an EE coming?
By looking at the point of sale material that said, 2 disk standard edition available XX of XXX and 4 disk extended edition available XX of XXX
You are absolutely right and that is what we do.
Sacrifice current sales by announcing that the future MCE will kick multiple asses on so many levels that you would be crazy to buy something now.
But other ideas are spot on, multi user features need to be added to the tivo, its the only issue I have ever had, my wife likes romantic comedy, I like kevin smith, my wife likes pop idol, I like poking my eyes out with forks.
What I want is the option to say, "if there is ever a conflict, record what my wife wants". I know who wears the pants in our house, and it isn't me.
just to note, the pdfs went online yesterday, this review probably been in the queue for longer than 1 day.
any docs on how to correct that, I have read nothing about php5 but I do know that my use of memcached is similar to your example.
made me think it would work well in a forum type situation, I didn't for one second think of usenet, the worlds largest forum.
this is either going to be the best thing ever or the end of the world as we know it
or even both.
doesn't make it right
nothing should steel your focus, and if you are using gaim you should mail the developers and complain.
the forks are there for historical reasons
bundles are the replacement technology
until all data on a macos system has no resource fork they cant remove the support.
bittorrent has proved that just using ftp or http to transfer large amounts of data is not practical in many real situations
and has also proved that it is better for a number of those situations
WW is not replacing ftp or http it is trying to bridge the gap between bittorrent and http or ftp
1. bittorrent puts a huge strain on the central tracker as it keeps track of every peer WW would only need to keep track of the proxies
2. bittorrent users on the same local network cant "find" eachother WW knows about the internal and external network
3. bittorrent depends on the peers staying arround for a long time WW is designed to be left running on a gateway 24/7
will it be better or worse than BT we wont know but what we do know is will be better than http caching