Not even superconductors can carry the amount of power we are talking about here as the magnetic fields created by such a current destroy the superconductivity of all known examples of superconductors well before this amount of current is reached.
Are they more resistive but with a much greater ability to take the heat? How hot and resistive is this super-charged nanotube cable?
But now? Well, I've heard enough horror stories by now from friends and colleagues about entering the USA that, despite me having no criminal convictions whatsoever, I'm afraid it ain't on my "to-do" list any more.
Eh, keep it on the end of your list. Our system has to collapse under its own weight in the pretty near future.
the protocols are fine, but the crimes can be committed from Layer 2 on up, while they're trying to define the crime as being reliant on a Layer 7 application.
>>it's really not ready That mantra is getting old. What does it not do that either of the other two do?
Things that frustrate me on a daily basis would include: pulseaudio is always crapping out (they blame the hardware drivers that work under ALSA), wake from sleep on my netbook is hit-or-miss, syncing my phone isn't yet possible (maybe the next-next version of OpenSync will work), no detection of unplugging an external display (kms will handle this in the next xorg), DPI rendering issues depending on the toolkit/window manager in use (better in KDE 4.3 but still some problems), no usable multi-head configuration tool, crazy-hard file manager, crazy-hard file chooser (depending on toolkit), multimedia codec difficulties (improving), no tear-free video (maybe in Wayland), difficult to setup some printers (had to manually configure one wireless HP last week with lots of googling), video drivers that don't support currently available hardware, Network Manager hoses my routing table, task bar requires too many clicks. I can handle lots of these but my parents can't.
I understood when Linux was difficult to set up but now you just pop in your KUbuntu CD and go...>>Apple is somewhat more open - it at least sponsors a bunch of open source work What does donating some money have to do with being open? As a consumer why do I care?
They actively employ these guys and integrate their work into their OS. gcc is one. CUPS is another - the list is of fairly good size. As a consumer you're probably unaware. You might notice your linux apps get faster thanks to the SSA trees in gcc or your printing doesn't hang thanks to the work on CUPS, to borrow from above.
It does not prevent me from installing them or disable my device when I do. Clearly the Apple way is more evil there.
You're referring to iPhone here. Most of my comments were about Macintosh. I'll grant you that Macintosh has its days numbered and there will be desktop iPhones in the near future.
I can only imagine what Apple would do if they ever did have monopoly power.
see the iPhone.
Keep buying their junk!
nah, they've abandoned the cost curve - I was just posting on twitter yesterday about how a new MBP is the same price as it was 3 years ago and really hasn't improved in any significant way, plus the manufacturing costs have gone down. I bought one then, but now it's not a good deal.
>>as long as that hardware only ran Windows...I'm not exactly giving Microsoft credit for this as it certainly isn't due to anything they have done but how does your statement make any sense?
See US vs. Microsoft - they threatened to revoke OEM Windows licenses if they sold competing OS's.
>>This is only new as of iPhone. Microsoft is always playing catch-up. Yes, this particular way of being closed is currently limitted to iPhone. I suppose Microsoft could follow even. They may even have to, now with carriers empowered by Apple they don't need Microsoft as much and they can demand that Microsoft close down their platform. Still, any way this happens, even if Microsoft does this totally of their own free will it will always be Apple that did this to their customers first. How is Apple not the more evil of the two very evil companies? This sounds like such fanboy logic. If it's evil and Microsoft does it first they are evil for doing it first. If Apple does it first then Microsoft is playing catch-up by not thinking of it first?
Good and evil aren't really useful metrics here. I've personally abandoned Apple over iPhone tactics and their prosecution of bloggers, but I can still recognize that they make useful contributions to the Open Source community and that they make pretty decent computers that are relatively easy to use and secure. Microsoft really does me no good at all and has a history of actively attacking the Open Source community while releasing shoddy products. The question was, "which is worse, Apple or Microsoft?", and for me, Microsoft does all harm, Apple does less and provides some benefits.
Apple is somewhat more open - it at least sponsors a bunch of open source work.
So does Microsoft.
Could you elaborate?
Except Microsoft strikes me as more open -- just compare the iPhone to Win Mobile. Even with their desktop operating systems, OS X may be better engineered, but it's certainly not more customizable than Windows.
Apple publishes the source code for the UNIX part of its operating system under an OSI license. Isn't that dramatically more open?
If ars is accurate, it's not - they revised the definition but it's probably still very broad. There's no such thing as P2P at a network level. To lean on a broken model, this sounds like Layer 7 legislation trying to solve a Layer 2 problem. That and a PEBKAC-layer problem (yeah, really, Waxman said so).
At 30 minutes per disc, this is five hours of continuous burning, during which time you have to have someone swapping out discs every half hour.
Wow, this sounds exactly like backing up to floppy, then QIC-80 tapes. Maybe it's a constant. We used incremental backups in both cases to avoid the problem, except on a monthly basis we did full.
I just back up to redundant site-diverse hard drives these days.
So, I thought the Milky Way visible in the sky at night was made up of stars you can resolve individually and stars you can't resolve individually. Apparently it's also made up of gas and dust that reflects the star light.
+1 intarwebs.
And since I'm commenting, this graphic from Wikipedia is among the most awesome I've seen:
I don't see why you can't have dedicated repeaters in your home or business that plug into the wall. If enough people did that, you would only need to use phones for repeaters when there were no dedicated repeaters around.
I guess my point is that refusing money because you don't like the strings is one thing, but when the government starts retroactively adding on strings that is something else. It is hard to know whether the government is offering you a good deal when they can arbitrarily alter it whenever they want.
Don't make deals with Darth Vader. You'll always wind up in the belly of a Sarlac, even if you do get some slave girl jollies for a short time.
If you want more flexibility and longer lifespan, you pretty much HAVE to go up to workgroup printers.
I've got a Brother MFC-7820N at home and work that I've been using for a few years and shows now signs of slowing. I picked them up for under $200 each and only do enough printing that I've bought one replacement toner cartridge - from InkjetMadness, probably. I looked at their color laser, but it's $800 for the first year of ownership - only affordable if offsetting a print shop's cost.
It's got PostScript emulation that works great from GNOME, but KDE fails (with the generic drivers). The obvious solution (other than installing the Brother CUPS drivers) would be to setup a print server that does a ghostscript postscript/postscript rip before sending it out to print. One could argue that in the era of gigabit networking rasterizing to PCL is sufficient these days, though it seems like a good printer could always do better antialiasing than a generic rasterizer.
Not to defend Microsoft but how are they worse (or even as bad) as Apple?
With Apple you pay up front, with Microsoft you pay on the back-end. Apple's stuff is typically better engineered and is safer for its users. Linux+KDE is even safer, but usability is still in-progress (it's really not ready, as much as I'd like it to be).
Both are proprietary. Apple is somewhat more open - it at least sponsors a bunch of open source work.
Apple has always controlled the whole widget for typical customers (though I've run NetBSD, BeOS and Linux on various Macs). Microsoft has attempted to do so through anti-competitive measures and monopoly pressures.
at least they never cared what hardware you ran it on
as long as that hardware only ran Windows
or what other software you might chose to add.
This is only new as of iPhone. Microsoft is always playing catch-up.
the corporations are now in control of our government, our institutions and our resources. They have all this power but no real responsibility behind it.
Yes, but it's worse than that - corporations are extensions of government. Only the government grant of existence, immunity, and immortality enables a corporation. Without government, we just have partnerships.
So, you have tentacles of government controlling government, especially regarding how those tentacles are operated, but with massive bleed-over into anything that could negatively impact those tentacles (at the citizens' expense). This is a classic positive feedback loop. Our system of government was designed with checks and balances - explicit negative feedback loops to prevent this kind of anti-human power center from forming (one could argue the design has some bugs).
The trick is, un-doing Santa Clara is big thread to tug on, and *lots* of things unravel when you do so. I'd argue it's necessary, but the government, errr, I mean corporations (or do I?) will fight it tooth and nail.
Yet the power derives from the consent of the people - we just need to step up and exert the power we have. Hey, what's on TV tonight?
If the pricing is reasonable it wouldn't be so bad. But as we already know the pricing won't be reasonable so...
This is where the monopoly part gets tricky. I'm not yet convinced about whether transit and last-mile ought to be the same provider or not.
Another nice side effect is that it also would be much harder for ISP to oversell because you can always find something else to download to use your paid for bytes.
I understand the words in your sentence, but could you clarify why it would be harder to oversell? They ought to be encouraging people to download more, and have the infrastructure to enable profit.
Sounds like a good way to kill, just about everything one would use for entertainment on the web, streaming videos, games, etc etc
Consider the folks who can't afford a premium cable modem fee and so don't watch HD video streams at all. Now consider a service with a $10/mo connection fee, 20GB included, and 10 cents per GB after that. The average person facing the Comcast 250GB throttle would instead be paying $35/mo. Watching a movie on Netflix would cost about 15 cents. This seems very reasonable.
Charging per byte is the only thing that will encourage the ISP to support things like P2P rather than try to defeat it. They'll have incentives to improve infrastructure. Now, if the government grants a monopoly and does not enforce deflation in proportion to Moore's Law then there's a separate failure, but let's not throw out the free market assuming failed government interference.
c. 1998 I was working for a hospital with frequent user changes on shared computers, and we had this kind of problem. I wanted to prototype an infra-red proximity detector that would just clear the user's Kerberos ticket when he walked away (we were looking to make the common case good, not perfect the security). I already had most of the code from writing a screensaver to do the same, but IT management wouldn't fund the project because toilets had similar sensors, and that was just 'too goofy a similarity to be taken seriously.' This is how security decisions really get made.
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The US is the only country in the world to care about a stupid posession misdemeanor - I could go anywhere else without issue at all..
C'mon, we're puritans over here. What, you don't think we have a president who sold coke on the street, do you?
Interviewer: And what will you do once you're in the U.S.?
Sorry, the correct answer was, "Octo-stacker".
Surely there was at least one episode of Voyager where they shat upon whatever canon of subspace had been carefully preserved for 30 years?
Not even superconductors can carry the amount of power we are talking about here as the magnetic fields created by such a current destroy the superconductivity of all known examples of superconductors well before this amount of current is reached.
Are they more resistive but with a much greater ability to take the heat? How hot and resistive is this super-charged nanotube cable?
But now? Well, I've heard enough horror stories by now from friends and colleagues about entering the USA that, despite me having no criminal convictions whatsoever, I'm afraid it ain't on my "to-do" list any more.
Eh, keep it on the end of your list. Our system has to collapse under its own weight in the pretty near future.
The age for enlistment in the armed forces of course stays the same, as nobody else would actually do it.
And most people would not support soldiers who can't vote, so unless politicians stop making war the odds for progress are low.
Whats wrong at Layer 2?
the protocols are fine, but the crimes can be committed from Layer 2 on up, while they're trying to define the crime as being reliant on a Layer 7 application.
>>it's really not ready
That mantra is getting old. What does it not do that either of the other two do?
Things that frustrate me on a daily basis would include: pulseaudio is always crapping out (they blame the hardware drivers that work under ALSA), wake from sleep on my netbook is hit-or-miss, syncing my phone isn't yet possible (maybe the next-next version of OpenSync will work), no detection of unplugging an external display (kms will handle this in the next xorg), DPI rendering issues depending on the toolkit/window manager in use (better in KDE 4.3 but still some problems), no usable multi-head configuration tool, crazy-hard file manager, crazy-hard file chooser (depending on toolkit), multimedia codec difficulties (improving), no tear-free video (maybe in Wayland), difficult to setup some printers (had to manually configure one wireless HP last week with lots of googling), video drivers that don't support currently available hardware, Network Manager hoses my routing table, task bar requires too many clicks. I can handle lots of these but my parents can't.
I understood when Linux was difficult to set up but now you just pop in your KUbuntu CD and go...>>Apple is somewhat more open - it at least sponsors a bunch of open source work
What does donating some money have to do with being open? As a consumer why do I care?
They actively employ these guys and integrate their work into their OS. gcc is one. CUPS is another - the list is of fairly good size. As a consumer you're probably unaware. You might notice your linux apps get faster thanks to the SSA trees in gcc or your printing doesn't hang thanks to the work on CUPS, to borrow from above.
It does not prevent me from installing them or disable my device when I do. Clearly the Apple way is more evil there.
You're referring to iPhone here. Most of my comments were about Macintosh. I'll grant you that Macintosh has its days numbered and there will be desktop iPhones in the near future.
I can only imagine what Apple would do if they ever did have monopoly power.
see the iPhone.
Keep buying their junk!
nah, they've abandoned the cost curve - I was just posting on twitter yesterday about how a new MBP is the same price as it was 3 years ago and really hasn't improved in any significant way, plus the manufacturing costs have gone down. I bought one then, but now it's not a good deal.
>>as long as that hardware only ran Windows ...I'm not exactly giving Microsoft credit for this as it certainly isn't due to anything they have done but how does your statement make any sense?
See US vs. Microsoft - they threatened to revoke OEM Windows licenses if they sold competing OS's.
>>This is only new as of iPhone. Microsoft is always playing catch-up.
Yes, this particular way of being closed is currently limitted to iPhone. I suppose Microsoft could follow even. They may even have to, now with carriers empowered by Apple they don't need Microsoft as much and they can demand that Microsoft close down their platform. Still, any way this happens, even if Microsoft does this totally of their own free will it will always be Apple that did this to their customers first. How is Apple not the more evil of the two very evil companies? This sounds like such fanboy logic. If it's evil and Microsoft does it first they are evil for doing it first. If Apple does it first then Microsoft is playing catch-up by not thinking of it first?
Good and evil aren't really useful metrics here. I've personally abandoned Apple over iPhone tactics and their prosecution of bloggers, but I can still recognize that they make useful contributions to the Open Source community and that they make pretty decent computers that are relatively easy to use and secure. Microsoft really does me no good at all and has a history of actively attacking the Open Source community while releasing shoddy products. The question was, "which is worse, Apple or Microsoft?", and for me, Microsoft does all harm, Apple does less and provides some benefits.
Apple is somewhat more open - it at least sponsors a bunch of open source work.
So does Microsoft.
Could you elaborate?
Except Microsoft strikes me as more open -- just compare the iPhone to Win Mobile. Even with their desktop operating systems, OS X may be better engineered, but it's certainly not more customizable than Windows.
Apple publishes the source code for the UNIX part of its operating system under an OSI license. Isn't that dramatically more open?
I wonder if this was an intentional knock-off?
Sure seems that way, though I appreciate the CC license.
This looks like great technology. It also appears to be GPL-incompatible and not landable in linux, my development platform of preference.
Anybody here using free alternatives?
If ars is accurate, it's not - they revised the definition but it's probably still very broad. There's no such thing as P2P at a network level. To lean on a broken model, this sounds like Layer 7 legislation trying to solve a Layer 2 problem. That and a PEBKAC-layer problem (yeah, really, Waxman said so).
Wow, this sounds exactly like backing up to floppy, then QIC-80 tapes. Maybe it's a constant. We used incremental backups in both cases to avoid the problem, except on a monthly basis we did full.
I just back up to redundant site-diverse hard drives these days.
So, I thought the Milky Way visible in the sky at night was made up of stars you can resolve individually and stars you can't resolve individually. Apparently it's also made up of gas and dust that reflects the star light.
+1 intarwebs.
And since I'm commenting, this graphic from Wikipedia is among the most awesome I've seen:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Universe_Reference_Map_(Location)_001.jpeg
Wait for the WiMax gear to fall under $200.
Apparently GE funds its research appropriately.
Don't make deals with Darth Vader. You'll always wind up in the belly of a Sarlac, even if you do get some slave girl jollies for a short time.
Last time I thought that I bought some shares instead and downloaded CentOS.
I've got a Brother MFC-7820N at home and work that I've been using for a few years and shows now signs of slowing. I picked them up for under $200 each and only do enough printing that I've bought one replacement toner cartridge - from InkjetMadness, probably. I looked at their color laser, but it's $800 for the first year of ownership - only affordable if offsetting a print shop's cost.
It's got PostScript emulation that works great from GNOME, but KDE fails (with the generic drivers). The obvious solution (other than installing the Brother CUPS drivers) would be to setup a print server that does a ghostscript postscript/postscript rip before sending it out to print. One could argue that in the era of gigabit networking rasterizing to PCL is sufficient these days, though it seems like a good printer could always do better antialiasing than a generic rasterizer.
That's right - the bad guys' behind-the-walls vision technology will be completely thwarted.
With Apple you pay up front, with Microsoft you pay on the back-end. Apple's stuff is typically better engineered and is safer for its users. Linux+KDE is even safer, but usability is still in-progress (it's really not ready, as much as I'd like it to be).
Both are proprietary. Apple is somewhat more open - it at least sponsors a bunch of open source work.
Apple has always controlled the whole widget for typical customers (though I've run NetBSD, BeOS and Linux on various Macs). Microsoft has attempted to do so through anti-competitive measures and monopoly pressures.
as long as that hardware only ran Windows
This is only new as of iPhone. Microsoft is always playing catch-up.
Yes, but it's worse than that - corporations are extensions of government. Only the government grant of existence, immunity, and immortality enables a corporation. Without government, we just have partnerships.
So, you have tentacles of government controlling government, especially regarding how those tentacles are operated, but with massive bleed-over into anything that could negatively impact those tentacles (at the citizens' expense). This is a classic positive feedback loop. Our system of government was designed with checks and balances - explicit negative feedback loops to prevent this kind of anti-human power center from forming (one could argue the design has some bugs).
The trick is, un-doing Santa Clara is big thread to tug on, and *lots* of things unravel when you do so. I'd argue it's necessary, but the government, errr, I mean corporations (or do I?) will fight it tooth and nail.
Yet the power derives from the consent of the people - we just need to step up and exert the power we have. Hey, what's on TV tonight?
If the pricing is reasonable it wouldn't be so bad. But as we already know the pricing won't be reasonable so...
This is where the monopoly part gets tricky. I'm not yet convinced about whether transit and last-mile ought to be the same provider or not.
Another nice side effect is that it also would be much harder for ISP to oversell because you can always find something else to download to use your paid for bytes.
I understand the words in your sentence, but could you clarify why it would be harder to oversell? They ought to be encouraging people to download more, and have the infrastructure to enable profit.
Consider the folks who can't afford a premium cable modem fee and so don't watch HD video streams at all. Now consider a service with a $10/mo connection fee, 20GB included, and 10 cents per GB after that. The average person facing the Comcast 250GB throttle would instead be paying $35/mo. Watching a movie on Netflix would cost about 15 cents. This seems very reasonable.
Charging per byte is the only thing that will encourage the ISP to support things like P2P rather than try to defeat it. They'll have incentives to improve infrastructure. Now, if the government grants a monopoly and does not enforce deflation in proportion to Moore's Law then there's a separate failure, but let's not throw out the free market assuming failed government interference.
Nice, thanks for that.
c. 1998 I was working for a hospital with frequent user changes on shared computers, and we had this kind of problem. I wanted to prototype an infra-red proximity detector that would just clear the user's Kerberos ticket when he walked away (we were looking to make the common case good, not perfect the security). I already had most of the code from writing a screensaver to do the same, but IT management wouldn't fund the project because toilets had similar sensors, and that was just 'too goofy a similarity to be taken seriously.' This is how security decisions really get made.