ICQ could do this a very long time ago. While it is great the main thing here is that finally a major provider is offering this service in a way which can interoperate with other networks. The only two networks that have been able to interoperate thus far have been AIM and ICQ and they don't count because they are owned by the same company. IM is finally going to mature into the same level of ubiquity as email--ISPs will begin runnning Jabber servers in addition to the mail and news servers they currently run. While this has been a long time coming and the technology has been available for a while (though to be honest jabber hasn't been standardized that long) it really took someone like Google to make it happen on a wide scale. How Google will turn this into revenue is anyone's guess but it gives them major major goodwill to the people out there who have been waiting on this.
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That last bit isn't true at all. The FCC limits are stricter than you think. Many of these routers have firmware patches to increase the range--do you think that if that was all it took linksys wouldn't do it themselves? They don't because it goes well over the limits when you even double the power (let alone increase it by "several times").
Hah that's not patentable! You obviously are just playing an armchair attorney without a grounding in legal principles or logic.
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How does this not violate the FCC restrictions on power? Granted you could buy 2 routers and put a peice of metal in between them and say the same thing but this is sold as a single package.
You don't ever get that high of latency.. the idea that you said it was based on his distance is a big indicator of your misunderstanding. Distance on any scale where you would use a wireless router contributes almost nothing to ping time. Congestion and noise can contribute significantly as you keep waiting for a clear spot to send over your frame. Even still, flat out packet loss becomes a bigger problem long before the network is congested enough to cause high latencies.
The US has a spread out population. Canada doesn't. While Canada might have a lower population density that is because almost all of the pop. is concentrated at the border and then there is a large predominately empty expanse above it all. The US in comparison is completely different; while it does have some major population centers it also has large percentages living in rural areas.
You gave one example. The fact is that the vast majority of Canadian population is compacted along the border. The US is much more spread out. If Japan were to Annex the Pacific Ocean tomorrow it would be comparable to Canada:extremely high population densities in a small area combined with extremely low densities in a huge area. It's broadband penetration rate would remain the same and yet they could then make your same claim, "what is the US's problem, our population density is worse and yet we have better broadband coverage."
I don't think they can call it blindness unless testers can't identify a second bloody image after it. They never seemed to test this, and it would disprove their theory.
What if in your children's book you had two pages stuck together and inbetween them there was a porno image. Kid's can't see it unless they "hack the game." Most people would see that as a very different thing than a book having a blank page saying "draw something here" and a kid drawing pornography onto it. That is the difference between downloading a hack that unlocks content and downloading a nude patch that adds the content in.
He actually didn't berate them, he acknowledged that it is where the industry is going and they probably don't have much choice. He simply warned that the performance leap of this generation over the last won't be that great because it will take developers a long while to adjust.
Two body problems are analytically solvable (but none past that) but Kepler ellipses don't fall into this category because the effects of one body aren't considered on the other. The sun is seen as a stationary gravity well, it's position not affected by the gravity of the earth. If the earth and sun were actually the only two objects out there they would actually orbit each other in the way two stars can be seen to do; though the movement of the sun would be extremely extremely slight. Kepler's laws deal with one body and a static gravity well.
A better analogy would be the Wankel engine to a standard 4 banger. While the Wankel was in theory simpler and more elegant it turned out to be too inefficient.
Did valve actually have a license to do this? From what I read near the beginning of the development they were going to be going solely with their own engine, from scratch.
The parent didn't say that they got better mileage in the city than the highway. He said that compared to their non-hybrid siblings they got worse mileage on the highway (e.g. a 20mpg city/35mpg highway regular civic compared to a 30mpg city/25mpg highway hybrid civic (these numbers are completely made up but the greater than/less than relations still hold up the same on them)). Hybrids help the efficiency of accelleration and decceleration something that happens a lot in the city--all they do on the highway (besides the on and off ramp) is add extra weight to the vehicle.
I don't think you quite understood his point about ethanol. He wasn't referring to the efficiency of it in your engine; he was referring to the efficiency of producing it. Currently it takes more BTUs of work to produce it than you get back from the resulting ethanol! It is a net loss economically and environmentally.
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ICQ could do this a very long time ago. While it is great the main thing here is that finally a major provider is offering this service in a way which can interoperate with other networks. The only two networks that have been able to interoperate thus far have been AIM and ICQ and they don't count because they are owned by the same company. IM is finally going to mature into the same level of ubiquity as email--ISPs will begin runnning Jabber servers in addition to the mail and news servers they currently run. While this has been a long time coming and the technology has been available for a while (though to be honest jabber hasn't been standardized that long) it really took someone like Google to make it happen on a wide scale. How Google will turn this into revenue is anyone's guess but it gives them major major goodwill to the people out there who have been waiting on this.
That last bit isn't true at all. The FCC limits are stricter than you think. Many of these routers have firmware patches to increase the range--do you think that if that was all it took linksys wouldn't do it themselves? They don't because it goes well over the limits when you even double the power (let alone increase it by "several times").
Hah that's not patentable! You obviously are just playing an armchair attorney without a grounding in legal principles or logic.
How does this not violate the FCC restrictions on power? Granted you could buy 2 routers and put a peice of metal in between them and say the same thing but this is sold as a single package.
You don't ever get that high of latency.. the idea that you said it was based on his distance is a big indicator of your misunderstanding. Distance on any scale where you would use a wireless router contributes almost nothing to ping time. Congestion and noise can contribute significantly as you keep waiting for a clear spot to send over your frame. Even still, flat out packet loss becomes a bigger problem long before the network is congested enough to cause high latencies.
Podcast blogospherirati! This development will undoubtly help podcasts take over radio.
The US has a spread out population. Canada doesn't. While Canada might have a lower population density that is because almost all of the pop. is concentrated at the border and then there is a large predominately empty expanse above it all. The US in comparison is completely different; while it does have some major population centers it also has large percentages living in rural areas.
You gave one example. The fact is that the vast majority of Canadian population is compacted along the border. The US is much more spread out. If Japan were to Annex the Pacific Ocean tomorrow it would be comparable to Canada:extremely high population densities in a small area combined with extremely low densities in a huge area. It's broadband penetration rate would remain the same and yet they could then make your same claim, "what is the US's problem, our population density is worse and yet we have better broadband coverage."
I don't think they can call it blindness unless testers can't identify a second bloody image after it. They never seemed to test this, and it would disprove their theory.
20GB laptop drives (2.5") are cheap.
Newsflash laptop 20gig drives aren't $99 either. And these aren't pccard sized drives.
HIV and tractors?
Didn't Seinfeld already make that episode?
What if in your children's book you had two pages stuck together and inbetween them there was a porno image. Kid's can't see it unless they "hack the game." Most people would see that as a very different thing than a book having a blank page saying "draw something here" and a kid drawing pornography onto it. That is the difference between downloading a hack that unlocks content and downloading a nude patch that adds the content in.
Burnout 3 uses it extensively as well.
The design for the 360 showed a removable HD but not a removable optical drive.
He actually didn't berate them, he acknowledged that it is where the industry is going and they probably don't have much choice. He simply warned that the performance leap of this generation over the last won't be that great because it will take developers a long while to adjust.
"But they don't take American Express."
On a bottle of Equate Mouthwash from Walmart: "Compare to Listerine active ingredients*"
"*This product is not manufacted or distributed by Warner Lambert Consumer HealthCare, Distributor of Listerine"
Two body problems are analytically solvable (but none past that) but Kepler ellipses don't fall into this category because the effects of one body aren't considered on the other. The sun is seen as a stationary gravity well, it's position not affected by the gravity of the earth. If the earth and sun were actually the only two objects out there they would actually orbit each other in the way two stars can be seen to do; though the movement of the sun would be extremely extremely slight. Kepler's laws deal with one body and a static gravity well.
Hah nice try. It is obvious that your post is a part of that same viral marketing ploy.
A better analogy would be the Wankel engine to a standard 4 banger. While the Wankel was in theory simpler and more elegant it turned out to be too inefficient.
Did valve actually have a license to do this? From what I read near the beginning of the development they were going to be going solely with their own engine, from scratch.
I don't know if you realize this but he used to work for slashdot.
I'm glad (as it is quite telling) that you didn't address my second point at all.
The parent didn't say that they got better mileage in the city than the highway. He said that compared to their non-hybrid siblings they got worse mileage on the highway (e.g. a 20mpg city/35mpg highway regular civic compared to a 30mpg city/25mpg highway hybrid civic (these numbers are completely made up but the greater than/less than relations still hold up the same on them)). Hybrids help the efficiency of accelleration and decceleration something that happens a lot in the city--all they do on the highway (besides the on and off ramp) is add extra weight to the vehicle.
I don't think you quite understood his point about ethanol. He wasn't referring to the efficiency of it in your engine; he was referring to the efficiency of producing it. Currently it takes more BTUs of work to produce it than you get back from the resulting ethanol! It is a net loss economically and environmentally.