The BA system was put in by Sprint, IIRC, and may not have been the same HW as the SpeedChoice stuff.
I get pretty good ping times to the tower (40-50ms). It's latency in the IP between there and the rest of the Internet that sucks (goes up over 100ms real fast). But a lot of that is Genuity (their Black Rocket is a metaphor for what goes up your ass when you buy from them).
The only seemingly bad part left is that they put the DNS servers a long way out, linkwise. I shouldn't need 140 ms to ping my primary DNS. And the secondary DNS shouldn't be on the same subnet as the primary.
Other than that, $45/mo for T3 speed is totally cool by me.
You performed fair use, using a reasonable portion of their material for your own creative commentary. (Weak and misguided, but creative.)
What you did there didn't damage the DMN. Since you're not taking the place of their front page, you're not taking valuable clicks away from them. Quite the opposite.
The locations of articles within the Dallas Morning News website is content itself, created by their employees (and computers).
By replicating the service by which users may find articles in the website, the linker is copying the copyrighted table of contents information, and using it for profit.
Fair Use allows copying in small amounts in otherwise creative commentary, but if a website reorganizes the table of contents to most of the online newspaper just to keep people looking at their own banner ads, then it needs to pay for the privilege.
We have a government that promotes fraud in all areas of business, politics, medicine, and religion, so it's not unexpected that the population should lack all skepticism or any sense of the value of science.
People's Choice TV did this in Detroit and Phoenix. Then they adapted it to do broadband Internet, and changed their name to SpeedChoice.
Brilliant stuff. 10-mbit performance over a microwave link direct to my house.
Then Sprint bought SpeedChoice, because they wanted the bandwidth to start Sprint ION service, which was to be business telephone over wireless link. Sprint ION went bust, and afaik the original television service was ended (I never had it).
The internet service (Sprint Broadband Direct) still works great, and was even improved a few weeks ago by the replacement of some hinky equipment up on the mountain. I'm getting 400KB+ download rates, which translates to a really well-performing 10-mbit Ethernet link mediating TCP/IP traffic.
But Sprint refuses to add new customers. So attrition will mean that eventually--and this is likely their plan--the Corporation Commission will let them pull the plug on it, and they'll sell the band, and leave me quenched until I can get something else.
What's apropos here is, anyone doing terrestrial wireless "cable television" will need to find the RF bandwidth in which to implement it. Not easy to do, especially when Evil Empires want to take it over to implement their own nefarious and ill-planned escapades.
Actually, since only a few countries have larger populations than the U.S., the U.S. wins the relative comparison even more handily than the absolute one (smaller number of emigres divided by larger population).
The U.S. is the destination nation for international migration, and has positive net-immigration with every country on Earth (last time I looked; 2001 we may have had a negative net with India because of laid-off H-1B deportees).
Canard. The U.S. is made of people from somewhere else. The only people who are "insular" are the small minority of dirtbags who fear outsiders, and the politicians who troll them. Every country's got that.
People move where they think the good stuff is, and stay put if they think they can't do better. In many cases giving up everything--or more--to go.
If even half the U.S. is "insular", that leaves 140 million people savvy enough to go somewhere else, if there was anywhere else worth going.
I've been to several other countries, some of which have your attitude towards us. I think you have that "insular" thing backwards.
--Blair
P.S.
Q: How can you tell the difference between an American and a Canadian?
If you weren't so cheap, and actually gambled some money, the hotel would send the fscking plane to get you.
--Blair
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Oil is cheaper only because it's had a hundred-year head start, and because it is a highly concentrated energy source that we don't have to create, just dig up and deliver, but it is also non-renewable (unless you're prepared to bury canada under a mile of dirt and wait half a billion years).
At the point where we have "no oil left", production of petroleum will cost more than our chosen replacement for it.
Economies of scale should reduce the cost of solar steam, just as they did for driving steel pipe two miles into the ground.
It might never be cheaper per kWh. Free gunk is like free money, and we're living off the literal fat of the land. In the future, energy will be a larger part of the average person's budget (). But how big a part is it? 5%? 10%? If it goes to 12 or 15%, but is pollution-free, is that a good deal?
--Blair
Solar-array hydrogen-generator grid
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Build several (or several hundred) big (square-mile-plus) mirror-array collectors throughout the world (the dispersal reduces output fluctuation due to nightfall and weather).
Use the concentrated sunlight to generate steam which generates electricity which can be transmitted to grid subscribers, or to wet areas to generate hydrogen from easily available water (they hydrogen storage further reduces output fluctuations by acting as a chemical battery).
Use the hydrogen to run vehicles, electric generators for off-grid communities, and grid generators when sunlight is scarce.
The startup costs for this can't be any higher than for exploration, drilling, and refining of oil in the millions of wells we've sunk, and the resource costs aren't any lower than free gunk from the ground, and the maintenance can't be nearly as expensive as tankers and oil slicks, so this should work out fine until the sun quits on us.
that Carter's original arc for the series was only five years.
He had an exit strategy worked out from the beginning. And he had the thing lined up. But then the money started pouring in, and Fox talked him into extending it. Which blew the story line all to hell. Instead of being a mystery, it became a superstitious soap opera.
Then it outlasted David Duchovny's interest.
After he left, total Dullsville. I stopped watching. So did a lot of other people. Now they have no reason at all to keep it going.
I called VoiceStream about allowing a certain phone on their network. They initially indicated it wouldn't work, but when I pointed out it had the proper band, they said I was free to try it.
I don't think the complainers have much of a case. Phone systems are different because their designers start with different frequency allocations, and since they won't get any hardware reuse, they don't bother to make consistent protocols either. And nobody's telling them to do so.
This is the reason you don't want laissez-faire in some consumer industries. You get what you wish for.
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That would depend on the information that was being compiled, and who owns or is renting it.
--Blair
The BA system was put in by Sprint, IIRC, and may not have been the same HW as the SpeedChoice stuff.
I get pretty good ping times to the tower (40-50ms). It's latency in the IP between there and the rest of the Internet that sucks (goes up over 100ms real fast). But a lot of that is Genuity (their Black Rocket is a metaphor for what goes up your ass when you buy from them).
The only seemingly bad part left is that they put the DNS servers a long way out, linkwise. I shouldn't need 140 ms to ping my primary DNS. And the secondary DNS shouldn't be on the same subnet as the primary.
Other than that, $45/mo for T3 speed is totally cool by me.
--Blair
John Dean says he will reveal the identity of "Deep Link" in a posting to Everything2 during the premiere showing of Star Wars II: The Clone Wars, Coming to a Theater Near You!.
Choose wisely.
--Blair
You didn't.
You performed fair use, using a reasonable portion of their material for your own creative commentary. (Weak and misguided, but creative.)
What you did there didn't damage the DMN. Since you're not taking the place of their front page, you're not taking valuable clicks away from them. Quite the opposite.
--Blair
"IANAL, I don't even like looking at it."
You (or someone) paid for that copy you're reading, so you can do what you like with it. Except copy it.
The case here is more like if you xeroxed page 37 and posted it on telephone poles all over town with your business's phone number on it.
The locations of articles within the Dallas Morning News website is content itself, created by their employees (and computers).
By replicating the service by which users may find articles in the website, the linker is copying the copyrighted table of contents information, and using it for profit.
Fair Use allows copying in small amounts in otherwise creative commentary, but if a website reorganizes the table of contents to most of the online newspaper just to keep people looking at their own banner ads, then it needs to pay for the privilege.
Which makes me wonder how long www.1stHeadlines.com will survive.
--Blair
Biased review of biased book about company that doesn't do very well despite its imagined superiority.
--Blair
We have a government that promotes fraud in all areas of business, politics, medicine, and religion, so it's not unexpected that the population should lack all skepticism or any sense of the value of science.
--Blair
People's Choice TV did this in Detroit and Phoenix. Then they adapted it to do broadband Internet, and changed their name to SpeedChoice.
Brilliant stuff. 10-mbit performance over a microwave link direct to my house.
Then Sprint bought SpeedChoice, because they wanted the bandwidth to start Sprint ION service, which was to be business telephone over wireless link. Sprint ION went bust, and afaik the original television service was ended (I never had it).
The internet service (Sprint Broadband Direct) still works great, and was even improved a few weeks ago by the replacement of some hinky equipment up on the mountain. I'm getting 400KB+ download rates, which translates to a really well-performing 10-mbit Ethernet link mediating TCP/IP traffic.
But Sprint refuses to add new customers. So attrition will mean that eventually--and this is likely their plan--the Corporation Commission will let them pull the plug on it, and they'll sell the band, and leave me quenched until I can get something else.
What's apropos here is, anyone doing terrestrial wireless "cable television" will need to find the RF bandwidth in which to implement it. Not easy to do, especially when Evil Empires want to take it over to implement their own nefarious and ill-planned escapades.
--Blair
When a computer kicked the crap out of Kasparov.
And it will only get worse (or better; YMMV).
Machines will get smarter. People won't.
--Blair
Actually, since only a few countries have larger populations than the U.S., the U.S. wins the relative comparison even more handily than the absolute one (smaller number of emigres divided by larger population).
The U.S. is the destination nation for international migration, and has positive net-immigration with every country on Earth (last time I looked; 2001 we may have had a negative net with India because of laid-off H-1B deportees).
--Blair
Canard. The U.S. is made of people from somewhere else. The only people who are "insular" are the small minority of dirtbags who fear outsiders, and the politicians who troll them. Every country's got that.
People move where they think the good stuff is, and stay put if they think they can't do better. In many cases giving up everything--or more--to go.
If even half the U.S. is "insular", that leaves 140 million people savvy enough to go somewhere else, if there was anywhere else worth going.
I've been to several other countries, some of which have your attitude towards us. I think you have that "insular" thing backwards.
--Blair
P.S.
Q: How can you tell the difference between an American and a Canadian?
A: Ask them this question.
Bud?
Bud Selig?
Is that you?
--Blair
Simple litmust test:
How many people from the US want to immigrate to your country?
How many people from your country want to emigrate to the US?
Take your brainwash somewhere else.
There's no way the rest of the food you eat with this stuff is irrelevant to its carcinogenic potential.
These scientists are being irresponsible in releasing this information prematurely without copious disclaimers.
Apparently, fame (or profit) is more important than truth.
--Blair
NASA used pigs to test dry-land touchdown: Mercury Pig Capsule
--Blair
The sort of people who think email exploits are l33t don't know what an MBR is.
--Blair
The "OBVIOUS" tag, I mean.
--Blair
If you weren't so cheap, and actually gambled some money, the hotel would send the fscking plane to get you.
--Blair
Oil is cheaper only because it's had a hundred-year head start, and because it is a highly concentrated energy source that we don't have to create, just dig up and deliver, but it is also non-renewable (unless you're prepared to bury canada under a mile of dirt and wait half a billion years).
At the point where we have "no oil left", production of petroleum will cost more than our chosen replacement for it.
Economies of scale should reduce the cost of solar steam, just as they did for driving steel pipe two miles into the ground.
It might never be cheaper per kWh. Free gunk is like free money, and we're living off the literal fat of the land. In the future, energy will be a larger part of the average person's budget (). But how big a part is it? 5%? 10%? If it goes to 12 or 15%, but is pollution-free, is that a good deal?
--Blair
Build several (or several hundred) big (square-mile-plus) mirror-array collectors throughout the world (the dispersal reduces output fluctuation due to nightfall and weather).
Use the concentrated sunlight to generate steam which generates electricity which can be transmitted to grid subscribers, or to wet areas to generate hydrogen from easily available water (they hydrogen storage further reduces output fluctuations by acting as a chemical battery).
Use the hydrogen to run vehicles, electric generators for off-grid communities, and grid generators when sunlight is scarce.
The startup costs for this can't be any higher than for exploration, drilling, and refining of oil in the millions of wells we've sunk, and the resource costs aren't any lower than free gunk from the ground, and the maintenance can't be nearly as expensive as tankers and oil slicks, so this should work out fine until the sun quits on us.
--Blair
I hope he got carpal tunnel typing all that bullshit in.
that Carter's original arc for the series was only five years.
He had an exit strategy worked out from the beginning. And he had the thing lined up. But then the money started pouring in, and Fox talked him into extending it. Which blew the story line all to hell. Instead of being a mystery, it became a superstitious soap opera.
Then it outlasted David Duchovny's interest.
After he left, total Dullsville. I stopped watching. So did a lot of other people. Now they have no reason at all to keep it going.
--Blair
of work.
If Bill isn't going to employ them, when he's the one who put on the street, then what is he talking about?
--Blair
I called VoiceStream about allowing a certain phone on their network. They initially indicated it wouldn't work, but when I pointed out it had the proper band, they said I was free to try it.
I don't think the complainers have much of a case. Phone systems are different because their designers start with different frequency allocations, and since they won't get any hardware reuse, they don't bother to make consistent protocols either. And nobody's telling them to do so.
This is the reason you don't want laissez-faire in some consumer industries. You get what you wish for.
--Blair