yeah, for a family of 4, I suppose you might want to multiply by... 4.
I think you're still fine. It would be fair to use something like REDCODE Raw as an upper limit for home viewership at 10GB per minute. It actually costs more to process uncompressed video these days, so nobody would put money into such silicon.
Presumably for deployed stereo they'll come up with a 'joint-stereo'-like algorithm that doesn't duplicate the data-rate.
Browsers? They shouldn't care about DNSSEC either way, all of that should be handled by the local resolver. To be fair I'm presuming here that you mean web browsers as opposed to say DNS browsers.
What should the user see if a DNS failure occurs because of a failed signature? "Host not found?" Something like a TLS certificate mismatch dialog?
USB3, HDMI, DVI, Ethernet, DisplayPort, FireWire, eSATA, proprietary. There should be one kind cable that can be used for all of these purposes. We have the technology. Consumers will thank you.
You're mixing protocols, libraries and applications.
And Skype's echo cancellation works perfectly, or close to it. Even with a crappy laptop with built-in mic and speakers. Nothing open source works on SIP channels (unless you offload to expensive hardware, but then, that's not really open source).
How is it for handling multiple connections at once?
Good question, I haven't pushed it beyond a few. I usually figure on an access point per dozen active clients. Apartment buildings are often built like they're made to absorb radio. You're better off putting in a cheap access point every 50' or so and setting them to minimize interference. If your building was 50' wide, you'd probably stagger them like:
1.........6 .....11....
6.........1 .....11....
1.........6
(gah, ignore the extra space, stupid lameness filter)
to spread coverage. Set the SSID's to be identical and most decent NIC's will roam properly (some older ones hang on tenaciously, but there's not much you can do.
I don't mind spending money on a good setup, but many of my customers are handicapped or living on fixed incomes, and they do...
Do they really need -n then? I'm a bit of a computer geek and am perfectly fine with a -g network at home. The 520g's go on special for $35 if they need the USB, which is less than the typical monthly ISP bill.
I run lots of dd/open-wrt for all kinds of strange and quirky applications, but I have to admit, the $29 Rosewill 802.11n access point from NewEgg is a champ. It's tiny, sips power, and just plain works. I'm not sure what the OS is, which in my experience has always been a disaster (I'm lookin' at you, D-Link) but the price tempted me and I wasn't disappointed. It's never needed a reset.
It 'only' has a hundred-meg uplink, and two rather than three antennas, but I can get signal from the parking lot of my office building 300' away from my data closet with the stock antennas. It doesn't do any of those fancy things listed in TFA, but I have an ASUS 520g running an open source firmware behind it which can do all that. So, I get the holy grail for $70 and only have to sacrifice 5GHz and gigabit uplinks.
The market may really be slow to respond because the exisiting products are good-enough.
Probably with the DoJ watchdogs on their tail (anemically, but there), Microsoft didn't dare start a Windows AppStore.
Ironically, it's the linux distributions that have had the 3rd-party software distribution infrastructure for ages. Is anybody selling commercial software running yum/apt repos with SSL client identification required?
Thanks. You can take a simple ratio then to my numbers, from 60% to, what are the steam towers 90% efficient?
If it went to 100%, for the sake of argument, then you're covering about 4.8% of the Sahara to do the above. With no gaps. It's only slightly less impossible.
I did some math a while back, counting all energy sources, not just electric, and the result I came to is it would take 1/4 the land area of New Mexico, with 60% efficient cells.
Doing some more quick math, that's 4% of the Sahara, or 8% in your hydrolysis scenario (the agriculture benefit of all that distilled water is separately interesting in Africa).
The problem is we don't have production-quality 60% cells and humans have never accomplished a task so enormous in scale. I kind of doubt we have enough raw materials unless we use less efficient cells, but then we're up to a quarter of the Sahara. And then there's the matter of the 2000-mile superconducting cable needed, under the Sea.
Sorry, Europe, this won't work. Feel free to make fun of me in five years when I'm proven wrong (he says overly-optimistically).
So if it's the government doing it then it's proof government is evil. If it's not the government doing it... then it's still the government doing it and it's proof government is evil.
Are you claiming all people are servants of the government?
I think I've seen this kind of argument before.
Then you should be able to clearly explain what you mean...
Exactly. The real architects are busy designing skyscrapers and expensive custom homes, not shitty subdivisions full of tract homes.
I think you have the AIA to blame for that. I recently worked on a $3M building project for a nonprofit and the architects routinely wanted 20% of the total cost for their design work, even a two-man shop, and weren't willing to negotiate. They chose to blame AIA rules for their fee. We chose to not work with a design architect and hired a (rare) structural architect for a very high hourly rate to verify the work the engineer and designer did (both on hourly rates themselves). The only reason we chose to hire an architect at all is that the government mandated it (no changes were required). Sweet work when a coercive monopoly mandates your rates. The AMA seems to work similarly.
Given fixed percentages, the savvy architect will naturally want the most expensive jobs.
I didn't start this comment intending to implicate government in our energy efficiency woes, but there it is.
Distribution has nothing to do with making a good movie, I'm just saying very few people make a good movie. We've had very-low-cost distribution channels for 10-15 years now, since DVDs have become standard
Sure it does - without good distribution and marketing there's little incentive to make a good movie.
DVD's don't have any coupling to marketing the way online distribution does.
This is good news - 'unlimited data' is a marketing fantasy, belied by the actual 5GB caps on plans. There is finite spectrum, even if we're not close to full utilization, and there is definitely capital cost associated with each unit of bits/time in service.
Anybody who thinks he's really getting 'free' unlimited data now is being fooled and/or billed (I hear there's one obscure MVNO still offering it, but for the most part there are steep overage charges).
When the carriers drop these pretences, they're left to compete on packet prices. Where markets are competitive, this can only serve to bring down the price of wireless Internet over time. And everybody knows the cell network is just wireless Internet pretending to be a phone system. Re-investment of profits into infrastructure (increasing capacity) should also improve as they seek to compete on service to counter-balance price.
To be frank, I thought they'd milk another couple years out of the status quo before caving to the inevitable.
Obviously people are going to make good movies for a small amount of money, but they almost never do so consistently
Right, and right. There's a product and a demand, but not yet an effective market. We don't need to duplicate 35mm reels and ship them on trains anymore, so the task is relatively easy, but there's momentum still favoring the big distributors. This is changing.
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yeah, for a family of 4, I suppose you might want to multiply by ... 4.
I think you're still fine. It would be fair to use something like REDCODE Raw as an upper limit for home viewership at 10GB per minute. It actually costs more to process uncompressed video these days, so nobody would put money into such silicon.
Presumably for deployed stereo they'll come up with a 'joint-stereo'-like algorithm that doesn't duplicate the data-rate.
And a good LDS family can used a bonded pair.
It's a magical land where people are happy
With your tax rates and no legal right to refuse an anal probe?
I mean shit, yes, the city of NY would like to pretend they're the whole state, but there's like, a lot more than NYC...
I figured he'd finally been run out of office for massive corruption and found a new gig down South.
Browsers? They shouldn't care about DNSSEC either way, all of that should be handled by the local resolver. To be fair I'm presuming here that you mean web browsers as opposed to say DNS browsers.
What should the user see if a DNS failure occurs because of a failed signature? "Host not found?" Something like a TLS certificate mismatch dialog?
What about stereo? Multiple users?
USB3, HDMI, DVI, Ethernet, DisplayPort, FireWire, eSATA, proprietary. There should be one kind cable that can be used for all of these purposes. We have the technology. Consumers will thank you.
Are you here from Intel marketing?
<wp:Light_Peak>
Oh, heck, that's still not working. fine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak
our Branches out in the Toronto Area felt it quite a bit
Funny, that's about 25% further away than I am in New Hampshire, but there was nothing to feel here. I suppose that's indicative of the geology.
You're mixing protocols, libraries and applications.
And Skype's echo cancellation works perfectly, or close to it. Even with a crappy laptop with built-in mic and speakers. Nothing open source works on SIP channels (unless you offload to expensive hardware, but then, that's not really open source).
Dang, clever tip to the French Canadians.
How is it for handling multiple connections at once?
Good question, I haven't pushed it beyond a few. I usually figure on an access point per dozen active clients. Apartment buildings are often built like they're made to absorb radio. You're better off putting in a cheap access point every 50' or so and setting them to minimize interference. If your building was 50' wide, you'd probably stagger them like:
1.........6
.....11....
6.........1
.....11....
1.........6
(gah, ignore the extra space, stupid lameness filter)
to spread coverage. Set the SSID's to be identical and most decent NIC's will roam properly (some older ones hang on tenaciously, but there's not much you can do.
I don't mind spending money on a good setup, but many of my customers are handicapped or living on fixed incomes, and they do...
Do they really need -n then? I'm a bit of a computer geek and am perfectly fine with a -g network at home. The 520g's go on special for $35 if they need the USB, which is less than the typical monthly ISP bill.
I run lots of dd/open-wrt for all kinds of strange and quirky applications, but I have to admit, the $29 Rosewill 802.11n access point from NewEgg is a champ. It's tiny, sips power, and just plain works. I'm not sure what the OS is, which in my experience has always been a disaster (I'm lookin' at you, D-Link) but the price tempted me and I wasn't disappointed. It's never needed a reset.
It 'only' has a hundred-meg uplink, and two rather than three antennas, but I can get signal from the parking lot of my office building 300' away from my data closet with the stock antennas. It doesn't do any of those fancy things listed in TFA, but I have an ASUS 520g running an open source firmware behind it which can do all that. So, I get the holy grail for $70 and only have to sacrifice 5GHz and gigabit uplinks.
The market may really be slow to respond because the exisiting products are good-enough.
Probably with the DoJ watchdogs on their tail (anemically, but there), Microsoft didn't dare start a Windows AppStore.
Ironically, it's the linux distributions that have had the 3rd-party software distribution infrastructure for ages. Is anybody selling commercial software running yum/apt repos with SSL client identification required?
Thanks. You can take a simple ratio then to my numbers, from 60% to, what are the steam towers 90% efficient?
If it went to 100%, for the sake of argument, then you're covering about 4.8% of the Sahara to do the above. With no gaps. It's only slightly less impossible.
but then just take 2%.
I did some math a while back, counting all energy sources, not just electric, and the result I came to is it would take 1/4 the land area of New Mexico, with 60% efficient cells.
Doing some more quick math, that's 4% of the Sahara, or 8% in your hydrolysis scenario (the agriculture benefit of all that distilled water is separately interesting in Africa).
The problem is we don't have production-quality 60% cells and humans have never accomplished a task so enormous in scale. I kind of doubt we have enough raw materials unless we use less efficient cells, but then we're up to a quarter of the Sahara. And then there's the matter of the 2000-mile superconducting cable needed, under the Sea.
Sorry, Europe, this won't work. Feel free to make fun of me in five years when I'm proven wrong (he says overly-optimistically).
So if it's the government doing it then it's proof government is evil. If it's not the government doing it... then it's still the government doing it and it's proof government is evil.
Are you claiming all people are servants of the government?
I think I've seen this kind of argument before.
Then you should be able to clearly explain what you mean...
the Big Bad Gubmint wolf is trying to huff and puff and blow down the free market rather than the filthy rich corporations colluding with each other
Corporations are tentacles of government - they're a legal fiction engaged in regulatory capture.
How cute that you think they're separate entities.
you are allowed to suck down data all day long at that rate.
On wireless?
Maybe you're looking for Zotero or Instapaper?
Exactly. The real architects are busy designing skyscrapers and expensive custom homes, not shitty subdivisions full of tract homes.
I think you have the AIA to blame for that. I recently worked on a $3M building project for a nonprofit and the architects routinely wanted 20% of the total cost for their design work, even a two-man shop, and weren't willing to negotiate. They chose to blame AIA rules for their fee. We chose to not work with a design architect and hired a (rare) structural architect for a very high hourly rate to verify the work the engineer and designer did (both on hourly rates themselves). The only reason we chose to hire an architect at all is that the government mandated it (no changes were required). Sweet work when a coercive monopoly mandates your rates. The AMA seems to work similarly.
Given fixed percentages, the savvy architect will naturally want the most expensive jobs.
I didn't start this comment intending to implicate government in our energy efficiency woes, but there it is.
Governments can impede markets, but they always lose in the end. Clearly that takes too long.
Many US markets have wireless competition, despite the regulatory hurdles.
Distribution has nothing to do with making a good movie, I'm just saying very few people make a good movie. We've had very-low-cost distribution channels for 10-15 years now, since DVDs have become standard
Sure it does - without good distribution and marketing there's little incentive to make a good movie.
DVD's don't have any coupling to marketing the way online distribution does.
This is good news - 'unlimited data' is a marketing fantasy, belied by the actual 5GB caps on plans. There is finite spectrum, even if we're not close to full utilization, and there is definitely capital cost associated with each unit of bits/time in service.
Anybody who thinks he's really getting 'free' unlimited data now is being fooled and/or billed (I hear there's one obscure MVNO still offering it, but for the most part there are steep overage charges).
When the carriers drop these pretences, they're left to compete on packet prices. Where markets are competitive, this can only serve to bring down the price of wireless Internet over time. And everybody knows the cell network is just wireless Internet pretending to be a phone system. Re-investment of profits into infrastructure (increasing capacity) should also improve as they seek to compete on service to counter-balance price.
To be frank, I thought they'd milk another couple years out of the status quo before caving to the inevitable.
Obviously people are going to make good movies for a small amount of money, but they almost never do so consistently
Right, and right. There's a product and a demand, but not yet an effective market. We don't need to duplicate 35mm reels and ship them on trains anymore, so the task is relatively easy, but there's momentum still favoring the big distributors. This is changing.
That shit's fucking hard in HTML!
The problem is with the perspective in your ASCII art.
Try drawing Muhammad praying on Jabal al Noor as seen from Mecca:
.
see, much easier.
This sort of statement is paranoia at its best.
And sarcasm.