I just mentioned blooming above, inasmuchas I think it'd make the thing useless at anything like a useful distance. So I don't think it's an electron beam. I think it's an electron-filled chamber being used as a lasing medium. That's the most I could get from TFA.
The whole thing about laser vs. electron is confusing.
I think, reading between the lines in TFA, that the electrons are the lasing medium, and the beam is still light. Not sure how they're using electrons as a medium. It's much less clear how they'd use the electrons as a damaging weapon; the average CRT gets them up to 30 kV and doesn't even scrape a single layer of phosphor molecules off the front glass. And electrons, being charged, disperse rapidly when freed from the confines of your directional system. After a few meters it'd be less beam than spray. So, again, it seems to be a lasing medium.
MS's problem is what you say. Their remote-execution stack is still basically their first-cut of the design.
They need to rip it out and redo it from the nuts up, taking into account that at some level they'll have to go stock-standard into internet and HTML protocols.
Or we can just all start using Android and Ubuntu and leave MS behind. As recently as two years ago I thought such a thing would be impossible, but now, not so much. The apps that are microsoft-only are showing age and being replaced by alternatives that actually have rich and competitive feature sets.
So our problem here is reliance on legacy code bases that, really, we could probably redo from a blank page to certified code for a few percent of the original cost, now that we know what the requirements should have been...and how to use a requirement in our development processes...
The lower band is cellphones and DSL, and the upper band is cable providers.
Verizon is sort of by itself. I'm guessing that Netflix is averaging cellphones and home-fiber customers, because I would surely expect the FiOS folks to be getting the best speeds of all.
Most intersting fact is that Clearwire is totally shitty. AT&T is kicking their ass, but then, they do brag about being the fastest, they just don't mention how little coverage they have for any sort of broadband-speed service.
Also fascinating is that there's a sort of common-mode component to the chart. That would most likely be due to effects of Netflix's own connection to the backbone, but if it isn't it means the entire internet has some sort of dynamic effect on itself.
This is true, which is why you don't let it climb more than a few % before re-evaluating your theory of the stock's future.
Think of it this way: since part of your short bet involves predicting that the company may go out of business entirely, your time horizon is much shorter than if you'd made a long bet expecting it to last forever. Because it's shorter, your time horizon on the losing side of your short bet has to be shorter than if you had made a long bet.
You can also see it as setting your stop limits closer to your entry point because your gains are limited to the current price.
It's a combination of both.
Going long is shooting a rocket into space. Going short is throwing a hand-grenade in a closed building. Your choice of where to stand and where to run in case of malfunction is more critical in the latter case.
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I just mentioned blooming above, inasmuchas I think it'd make the thing useless at anything like a useful distance. So I don't think it's an electron beam. I think it's an electron-filled chamber being used as a lasing medium. That's the most I could get from TFA.
It's about 3.6 smoots per mississippi. Give or take an ear.
The whole thing about laser vs. electron is confusing.
I think, reading between the lines in TFA, that the electrons are the lasing medium, and the beam is still light. Not sure how they're using electrons as a medium. It's much less clear how they'd use the electrons as a damaging weapon; the average CRT gets them up to 30 kV and doesn't even scrape a single layer of phosphor molecules off the front glass. And electrons, being charged, disperse rapidly when freed from the confines of your directional system. After a few meters it'd be less beam than spray. So, again, it seems to be a lasing medium.
I thought the plot was about being true to yourself. And making popcorn and using near-zero kelvin water as a quarter.
Line of sight on the ocean is a long damn way, and lasers are zero time-of-flight. Gives you plenty of room to defend against any projectile known.
Don't give HP ideas, or we'll have printer insurance lobbyists all over state legislatures by summertime.
Why isn't it clear from that video what before-and-after look like?
It looks exactly like a /. posting. So yeah.
MS's problem is what you say. Their remote-execution stack is still basically their first-cut of the design.
They need to rip it out and redo it from the nuts up, taking into account that at some level they'll have to go stock-standard into internet and HTML protocols.
Or we can just all start using Android and Ubuntu and leave MS behind. As recently as two years ago I thought such a thing would be impossible, but now, not so much. The apps that are microsoft-only are showing age and being replaced by alternatives that actually have rich and competitive feature sets.
So our problem here is reliance on legacy code bases that, really, we could probably redo from a blank page to certified code for a few percent of the original cost, now that we know what the requirements should have been...and how to use a requirement in our development processes...
That's because we're either trying to keep them from attacking us, or supplanting their security forces because we want something from them.
And defense is only about 20% of the latest budget proposals, not half.
At what point will they realize that they are a threat, a nuisance, and an extragovernmental tyranny, and implode in a DDoS of self-awareness?
And will they have the power to do it by then?
The only difference is that DARPA didn't have a mandate to keep the work secret.
Most of this new cyber-security work will be done by contracted projects as well.
And some of it will result in things like enhanced encryption (like the new SHA-2 algorithm) that we can all take advantage of.
That's right. DARPA never produced anything of value.
Without security, you're not going to grow very much before the next guy realizes he can grow by taking what's yours instead of inventing his own.
That's not necessarily true.
NSA has a technology transfer program.
I leave it as an exercise to the googler to find out what things you're currently using that came from their labs.
Until the late 50s, all truly critical cybernetic things were offline.
Nope. That sentence was perfectly constructed.
Regardless, if I see a hummingbird this big, I'm getting a net. They just aren't common around my secret lair.
My password file is in plaintext.
Its location, however, is knowable only by breaking a 4096-bit key that changes daily.
I think everyone is cognizant of the "up to" in the brochure.
Innnnteresting.
The lower band is cellphones and DSL, and the upper band is cable providers.
Verizon is sort of by itself. I'm guessing that Netflix is averaging cellphones and home-fiber customers, because I would surely expect the FiOS folks to be getting the best speeds of all.
Most intersting fact is that Clearwire is totally shitty. AT&T is kicking their ass, but then, they do brag about being the fastest, they just don't mention how little coverage they have for any sort of broadband-speed service.
Also fascinating is that there's a sort of common-mode component to the chart. That would most likely be due to effects of Netflix's own connection to the backbone, but if it isn't it means the entire internet has some sort of dynamic effect on itself.
You can be the hole, or you can be the corn.
it is when you're shaking someone down
This is true, which is why you don't let it climb more than a few % before re-evaluating your theory of the stock's future.
Think of it this way: since part of your short bet involves predicting that the company may go out of business entirely, your time horizon is much shorter than if you'd made a long bet expecting it to last forever. Because it's shorter, your time horizon on the losing side of your short bet has to be shorter than if you had made a long bet.
You can also see it as setting your stop limits closer to your entry point because your gains are limited to the current price.
It's a combination of both.
Going long is shooting a rocket into space. Going short is throwing a hand-grenade in a closed building. Your choice of where to stand and where to run in case of malfunction is more critical in the latter case.
Um...rocket...computer...RC car*...iphone...
* - with RC slightly modified to buffer more commands and data.
If you don't have to keep a human alive and you aren't trying to pare excess baggage down to the last kilogram it gets pretty simple.