It has, in fact, the simplest of ways: legislation.
I take it you have zero experience with trying to pass any legislation even remotely controversial? It's not simple because such a measure would never pass, and if it did the Govt would be out on it's ear in the next election and the bill revoked. So no, not simple.
And, since you used "forcing" between quotes, you can also add tax benefits and grants as "forcing" tools.
Now you're on the right track, carrots usually work better than sticks with these types of things. Although this can also backfire too since anything involving tax incentives will get twisted by the opposition as "welfare for the rich" (since they pay more tax hence will get bigger breaks).
The road idea isn't such a bad one, assuming the engineering is correct (Which I do)
In this world there is religion, fundamentalist religion, and the Super Bowl. Perhaps the only reason why such an attack has not taken place is that everyone knows it would result in the immediate erasure of the Middle East. All of it.
Are you a Football fan? If religious nuts attacked sporting nuts, my reaction would be similar those soccer riots in the UK. Team A hates Team B and something bad happened, who cares, they're all idiots.
Really, sport is fun to watch sometimes, but the people who treat it like fundamentalist religion deserve the same fate...
Editors post an article about foobar. The article gets 437 comments; so clearly the community is interested in foobar, and might want to see more of them.
Not this. All this eventually achieves is a race to the bottom.
I don't want popular, or I'd be reading Bieber/Kardashian's Twitter feed. I want interesting and intelligent, regardless of popularity.
It's not about whether people are bastards or not, obvious pricks exist everywhere. But a game is supposed to be entertainment,
You might enjoy playing by the rules, whereas someone else might get their entertainment by spoiling your fun. The game itself is still entertainment in both cases.
Video, an update of any kind these days. If you have more than 2 IP entertainment devices. 20Mbps is reasonably good for up to around 3-5 users. Once you get beyond that, you have to enable QOS in order to maintain a consistent user experience.
Well the average house is 2.5 people, so we're all good there.
Edge cases can pay extra. Any standard should cover the average plus some, which you agree 20Mbps seems to do.
At least hybrid copper / FTTN is a partial buildout of FTTP and should be capable of 20Mbps.
*Should be* being the critical phrase here. The problem is the node eventually gets oversubscribed, so your 20Mbps can tune into 2Mbps if your neighbours are bandwidth hogs.
My bill has no fees - it's all under one umbrella monthly rate. If 20Mb is more than enough, then you shouldn't have a problem defining broadband at 25Mbps.
I don't have a problem with that, I was disputing the GP's point that 20mbps is the same as "640k is more than enough". IMO, 20Mbps (or 25Mbps even) is enough for most use cases, both now and the foreseeable future.
And if you build for 25Mbps, then you won't be going back in 5 years trying to do another upgrade.
I agree with you there. We just went through a large "nation building project" to upgrade the archaic carrier infrastructure. The argument was that FTTP, although expensive, was cheaper in the long term due to maintenance, economic stimulus, and most importantly it becomes a valuable public asset etc.
Unfortunately for us the Opposition won the last election and decided to spend 2/3rds as much on hybrid copper/FTTN which was already out of date 15 years ago.
Although this may seem silly, the concept isn't, and this is where Tesla has it wrong. An Electric DeLorean would just back into a Garage, and then let the Electronics take over. The DeLorean would be precisely positioned, and Robot Arms would delve in, swap depleted Batteries for recharged ones, and in less than the time it takes to fill a tank with Gasoline currently, one could start scraping Bugs off of the windshield, and then drive off.
Recharging Batteries in place is so Baker Electric, 1899.
I'm not sure if this was a joke or not, but that is the stupidest idea I've heard all day.
I agree. But my point was that Governments care less about their own citizens then about 'virtue signalling' to foreigners. Here we have an article about native Finns being put out of work at a university, due to hard economic times, meanwhile the Finns are spending large amounts of money on importing foreigners, rather than helping them closer to home. This is madness.
I'm not sure what you should expect to happen here. The administration of a university shouldn't be micromanaged by the Prime Minister, so the two events shouldn't be connected. It's quite possible (who knows) that the school was massively bloated with staff and needed culling. I noticed most cuts are non-teaching roles, and a good chunk are organic redundancies (ie through staff retirements). It sounds a lot worse than it is.
Because the people running the EU (I'm looking at you, Angela Merkel) have decided the solution to low birth rates is the mass importation of people from other countries.
So what's your solution?
It's cultural suicide.
Interesting. In my experience the most multicultural cities in the word tend to be the most interesting and best to live in. http://theculturetrip.com/nort...
I've be to all of these places except Sao Paolo, and all of them were excellent places (except maybe LA, which is more to do with the car oriented sprawl that is very tourist unfriendly)
For nearly everyone else, BMI is a perfectly good rule of thumb. For instance, looking around the room now I can see about 20 people, all of which if you calculated their BMI would give a perfectly good rough idea of where they fit.
You know, SlashDot could try to make the world a better place by drawing the line here and taking a public stand. Boycott forbes.com articles until they allow ad blockers.
Or just never go to Forbes ever again. I can't say I've ever been there so won't be concerned either way.
Imagine if a portion of that money had gone to existing citizens instead - and the asylum seekers kept closer to their point of origin while receiving the other portion for their care - it's cheaper to help them closer to their point of origin, like in a neighboring country.
It's a little more complicated than that. The point of foreign aid is not just to feel good about helping others, it's a National Security prevention measure. You can let other humans rot, and all they will do is find a way to kill you and take your stuff. Or you can try and help them out of a hole and hopefully they'll leave you alone, or even better become prosperous enough to buy your products and boost your economy.
There is no cheap option, you either lots of money, or a lot more.
2008 was MySpace's peak. "By late 2007 and into 2008, Myspace was considered the leading social networking site, and consistently beat out main competitor Facebook in traffic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
To my knowledge no one even had a use case for how that would be helpful.
And you don't have a use case of how super high speed networks will be helpful to most people. That was my point.
Just like car speeds increased steadily for 50 years then plateau'd at a reasonable limit, so to network speeds have increased to the reasonable speed of what is useful. Most Network analysis I've seen shows this to be somewhere in the region of 10-20Mbps.
To make the point even clearer, would you pay extra for a 100Gbps network, or 1Tbps? At the extra bandwidth is pointless, just like with car top speeds.
You'll only change someone's opinion by offering an insight to a better way of doing things, not simply disparaging the current model with one line comments.
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1,000 KM of solar panels to provide power for 5 million people does not sound like an experiment.
It does when your population is over 66 Million. And this is not alpha testing, it has already been proven elsewhere.
It has, in fact, the simplest of ways: legislation.
I take it you have zero experience with trying to pass any legislation even remotely controversial? It's not simple because such a measure would never pass, and if it did the Govt would be out on it's ear in the next election and the bill revoked. So no, not simple.
And, since you used "forcing" between quotes, you can also add tax benefits and grants as "forcing" tools.
Now you're on the right track, carrots usually work better than sticks with these types of things. Although this can also backfire too since anything involving tax incentives will get twisted by the opposition as "welfare for the rich" (since they pay more tax hence will get bigger breaks).
The road idea isn't such a bad one, assuming the engineering is correct (Which I do)
In this world there is religion, fundamentalist religion, and the Super Bowl. Perhaps the only reason why such an attack has not taken place is that everyone knows it would result in the immediate erasure of the Middle East. All of it.
Are you a Football fan? If religious nuts attacked sporting nuts, my reaction would be similar those soccer riots in the UK. Team A hates Team B and something bad happened, who cares, they're all idiots.
Really, sport is fun to watch sometimes, but the people who treat it like fundamentalist religion deserve the same fate...
Anonymous posting has become a haven of trolls, far from it's original goal of protecting people when discussing work conditions and the like.
Isn't that solved with the default post view at +2? AC's start at zero so most people never see them anyway.
Editors post an article about foobar. The article gets 437 comments; so clearly the community is interested in foobar, and might want to see more of them.
Not this. All this eventually achieves is a race to the bottom.
I don't want popular, or I'd be reading Bieber/Kardashian's Twitter feed. I want interesting and intelligent, regardless of popularity.
Please, could someone PLEASE explain the logic behind cheating in multiplayer games?
Because there are more possible outcomes than win or lose. Spoiling being quite a popular one.
It's not about whether people are bastards or not, obvious pricks exist everywhere. But a game is supposed to be entertainment,
You might enjoy playing by the rules, whereas someone else might get their entertainment by spoiling your fun. The game itself is still entertainment in both cases.
It is a false urban myth
Unlike those true urban myths...
Video, an update of any kind these days. If you have more than 2 IP entertainment devices. 20Mbps is reasonably good for up to around 3-5 users. Once you get beyond that, you have to enable QOS in order to maintain a consistent user experience.
Well the average house is 2.5 people, so we're all good there. Edge cases can pay extra. Any standard should cover the average plus some, which you agree 20Mbps seems to do.
At least hybrid copper / FTTN is a partial buildout of FTTP and should be capable of 20Mbps.
*Should be* being the critical phrase here. The problem is the node eventually gets oversubscribed, so your 20Mbps can tune into 2Mbps if your neighbours are bandwidth hogs.
My bill has no fees - it's all under one umbrella monthly rate. If 20Mb is more than enough, then you shouldn't have a problem defining broadband at 25Mbps.
I don't have a problem with that, I was disputing the GP's point that 20mbps is the same as "640k is more than enough". IMO, 20Mbps (or 25Mbps even) is enough for most use cases, both now and the foreseeable future.
And if you build for 25Mbps, then you won't be going back in 5 years trying to do another upgrade.
I agree with you there. We just went through a large "nation building project" to upgrade the archaic carrier infrastructure. The argument was that FTTP, although expensive, was cheaper in the long term due to maintenance, economic stimulus, and most importantly it becomes a valuable public asset etc.
Unfortunately for us the Opposition won the last election and decided to spend 2/3rds as much on hybrid copper/FTTN which was already out of date 15 years ago.
I think we have this already. It's called Mario Kart.
Although this may seem silly, the concept isn't, and this is where Tesla has it wrong. An Electric DeLorean would just back into a Garage, and then let the Electronics take over. The DeLorean would be precisely positioned, and Robot Arms would delve in, swap depleted Batteries for recharged ones, and in less than the time it takes to fill a tank with Gasoline currently, one could start scraping Bugs off of the windshield, and then drive off. Recharging Batteries in place is so Baker Electric, 1899.
I'm not sure if this was a joke or not, but that is the stupidest idea I've heard all day.
I agree. But my point was that Governments care less about their own citizens then about 'virtue signalling' to foreigners. Here we have an article about native Finns being put out of work at a university, due to hard economic times, meanwhile the Finns are spending large amounts of money on importing foreigners, rather than helping them closer to home. This is madness.
I'm not sure what you should expect to happen here. The administration of a university shouldn't be micromanaged by the Prime Minister, so the two events shouldn't be connected. It's quite possible (who knows) that the school was massively bloated with staff and needed culling. I noticed most cuts are non-teaching roles, and a good chunk are organic redundancies (ie through staff retirements). It sounds a lot worse than it is.
Because the people running the EU (I'm looking at you, Angela Merkel) have decided the solution to low birth rates is the mass importation of people from other countries.
So what's your solution?
It's cultural suicide.
Interesting. In my experience the most multicultural cities in the word tend to be the most interesting and best to live in.
http://theculturetrip.com/nort...
I've be to all of these places except Sao Paolo, and all of them were excellent places (except maybe LA, which is more to do with the car oriented sprawl that is very tourist unfriendly)
For nearly everyone else, BMI is a perfectly good rule of thumb. For instance, looking around the room now I can see about 20 people, all of which if you calculated their BMI would give a perfectly good rough idea of where they fit.
I assume none of them are Asian or Polynesian...
The calorie works great. Weight is calories in vs calories out. It's simple, effective, and efficient.
Yet it fails even the simplest test. No matter how healthy your diet, you will still urinate and excrete faeces. So where does that come from?
You know, SlashDot could try to make the world a better place by drawing the line here and taking a public stand. Boycott forbes.com articles until they allow ad blockers.
Or just never go to Forbes ever again. I can't say I've ever been there so won't be concerned either way.
I have it on good authority - years of reading Slashdot posts - that European countries are enlightened, problem-free utopias.
You mustn't read so good. That's not your fault though, it's the relatively poor education system you have.
Imagine if a portion of that money had gone to existing citizens instead - and the asylum seekers kept closer to their point of origin while receiving the other portion for their care - it's cheaper to help them closer to their point of origin, like in a neighboring country.
It's a little more complicated than that. The point of foreign aid is not just to feel good about helping others, it's a National Security prevention measure. You can let other humans rot, and all they will do is find a way to kill you and take your stuff. Or you can try and help them out of a hole and hopefully they'll leave you alone, or even better become prosperous enough to buy your products and boost your economy.
There is no cheap option, you either lots of money, or a lot more.
And 3D Printing!
but they sent them all over Europe to spread that ISIS crap.
Because ISIS communicates only by physically being next the person they wish to communicate with...
According to Youtube's statistics, they have about 1bil unique visitors with the majority of them in the age range of 18-49
Youtube's recommended minimum is 500kbps, even hi-def would only be a few Mbps. Tell me again what you *need* more than 20Mbps for?
In 2008 Myspace was on the decline.
2008 was MySpace's peak. "By late 2007 and into 2008, Myspace was considered the leading social networking site, and consistently beat out main competitor Facebook in traffic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
To my knowledge no one even had a use case for how that would be helpful.
And you don't have a use case of how super high speed networks will be helpful to most people. That was my point.
Just like car speeds increased steadily for 50 years then plateau'd at a reasonable limit, so to network speeds have increased to the reasonable speed of what is useful. Most Network analysis I've seen shows this to be somewhere in the region of 10-20Mbps.
To make the point even clearer, would you pay extra for a 100Gbps network, or 1Tbps? At the extra bandwidth is pointless, just like with car top speeds.
You'll only change someone's opinion by offering an insight to a better way of doing things, not simply disparaging the current model with one line comments.