Aaah...But you see the 175K people who died haven't changed YOUR life... The murder of the 2K however changed the life of most of the people on this planet..
Can it get worse? Do you want to find out?
Or at least that might be the theory of those opposed to this db being in public...
Do you absolutely need the data to be randomly accessed on board? Cos you might just take a DVD writer and a lot of DVD's, Or how a bout a tape drive, and a few tapes to write on? These might serve your purpose just as well - IF you don't need to read stuff on the shuttle, but merely record. Less power, probably less weight as well. Just change the tape every day or so.
Except that neither China, nor India are really as scared of loss-of-life as Europe/America. This is one of the fundamental differences Asians see when they come to America/Europe.
It probably has something to do with the culture. People are ready to accept that the loss-of-life is something acceptable compared to the gain.
When the Yang-tze flooded in China, and when a dam broke-up years ago, the death toll was in excess of 100K. Did you even hear of that? When you hear of Kashmir, you never hear of the 60K deaths in the last 50yrs. Do you think Europe/America would have taken anything of that magnitude?
Space exploration will cost lives. Those who are willing to pay that price, will be able to make it. Those who are not, will not.
For a world-wide problem with worms, cross-platform worms are not required - just a simultaneous release of single platform worms. The spreading algo would be common, the payload and infection mechanism platform specific.
One for windows, one for linux, one for routers/switches...
Imagine the impact. Would the internet survive?
The only things preventing this might be the fact that no single person has the required experience in all the platforms, and vulnerabilities in non-windows OS's are typically more difficult to exploit.
There's a company called radiotime working on something like this. Don't know if they are doing the hardware, but they are working on cataloging of radio sites. You should be able to choose the programs you want, and download on to your portable mp3 player, and also time-shift it to whenever you want.
I don't think either of those countries really realizes the power a nuclear weapon contains, and a nuclear exchange between them would mess up economies in the entire region for years.
Looks like you don't really realize the power of nucs. Years will more likely be centuries or millenia.
It doesn't mean that the person scanned 700K IP's. It might mean that it is a possibility based on the code, or a possible code flow causes a memory leak.
A lot of people seem to think that the pricing is too high. However, the target market - the middle-class/upper-class, could easily afford this. In my house the telephone bill (mostly due to net) comes to around Rs.2,500. I would jump at this opportunity, and so would almost all of my friends.
Now whether 128Kbps is broadband is a different argument, but it sure beats crappy 33.1Kbps, and there would be no per-minute charge!!
Slightly OT. The IIT (Indian Inst of Tech. ) decided a few years ago, that waiting for multi-nationals to bring in new tech that was cheap enough for use in India was pointless. The MNC's were used to at least $40 revenue per phone line per month, and that is what they were expecting in India. The IIT decided that it would go for lower-cost/lower-speed solutions using the latest in tech to drive the prices down, instead of increasing the features.
A famous anecdote that one of the Professors there likes to relate - Around the 80's , all the digital phone switches used in India were imported. Companies like Alcatel, Ericsson, etc. used to charge a hefty bundle for them. Then C-DoT (Center for Development of Telecom) stepped in and made their own digital switch for a fraction of the cost. Almost overnight, the MNC's were forced to drop their prices in order to compete. This is what Banyan Networks, and a host of other small startups, incubated at IIT, want to do in India.
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.com - whole prog was loaded directly into a 64Kb segment, and executed. Execution started with the first byte of the program. There was no way you could use more. (both data and code).
.exe - you could use more than one segment for data, and code. However, getting a single piece of data larger than 64Kb was still a pain IIRC. In this, there was a block of data at the beginning specifying the number of segments used, etc.
Oh yeah, going above 640Kb was reserved strictly for the SM fans. One had to deal with all sorts of interrupts etc. to 'get' memory from the OS.
How anyone ever programmed anything is still an unsolved mystery. Although some might argue that it forced a great deal of thriftyness. If we saw that kind of coding now, no one would need a 2.4GHz P4 for word processing - although the apps would probably take a few years longer to develop - or maybe more of us would have jobs;-)...
Okay, let me get this straight. One guy calls world public opinion a second superpower. Another guy calls informed netizens a second superpower a few days (weeks?) later. Now the Reg is upset that the first guy is not showing up on Google? What the f*** ??
Does he have a right to come first on a google search? Maybe if more people linked to him, he would be first. How is this a conspiracy? Is there any evidence that Google actively did this? If they are so pissed about it, may be they should start a link campaign, or propagate their version of the "second superpower" more...
That statement doesn't say whether he will NOT buy _free_ software, merely says that they might not develop their own open-source sw. They might buy proprietary sw, they might buy free sw, just as long as the lead-in time is cut down.
This guy didn't even read the article, or is simply flame-baiting, what the minister said isn't too bad.
Mr.Shourie, the Minister for IT, said, "Do not expect a general decision from government on this," and said that each branch of the government would make a case-by-case decision on which software to use.
Remember software is a tool, not a religion. There are some cases where closed-source may be more appropriate.
For example - "If there is an important security software that we need urgently, for example, we are more likely to buy it, than spend time deciding whether we should develop it in India in open source," Shourie added.
While the standard is part of CDMA2000, and part of the uplink from the cell phone to the base station uses CDMA, the downlink uses TDMA exclusively to increase the total throughput. The downlink is transmitting to only ONE user at a time.
If you want to make sure go ahead and read one of the published papers that you have linked to on the Qualcomm site.
This is in fact not even CDMA - the voice technology used by Verizon. It is a TDMA technique which uses the fact that data is NOT delay-sensitive to increase the data-rate by waiting out 'bad times'. The technology provides a high bandwidth to users who are in 'less noisy' areas, where the signal is powerful, and a lower rate, delayed stream to users who are in 'more noisy' areas.
The technology is Qualcomm's and they are coming up with a hybrid voice-data called EV-DV where DV = Data Voice).
Sorry, you're right. However in the Ev-DO standard, each packet is acked at the wireless layer itself, so there is not much chance of packet errors/loss.
You don't need such a high reliability for IP anyway. Also the phones are constantly in touch with different base stations and request the data through the base station which provides the strongest signal, and also let the BS know what the SNR of the link is. This means that the data is rarely lost.
And even if some data is lost, that's ok, because it's only IP, and as we all know TCP/IP has been designed for highly lossy networks. All the loss will add to is the latency, and it is not really that important for plain IP traffic.
Everyone would not be using voice for everything...
The keyboard and mouse are much more powerful in their own ways, and I think most programmers might prefer that.
Come to think of it though, imagine a dictation engine tied to your programming language of choice. The number of possible elements is highly reduced, and it might actually be easier to code....
And they played fair when supplying power, didn't fake maintenance, didn't show false loads on the distribution lines, and try to make themselves a profit, sell power out-of-state and sell it back in-state at higher prices again?
Yeah, and exactly the same thing happened in California right? There was all this demand for electricity and the private companies supplied it without govt. intervention. They didn't exploit the situation and create an artificial scarcity did they.....
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Can it get worse? Do you want to find out?
Or at least that might be the theory of those opposed to this db being in public...
Amazingly it does!!!
... last-year ;-)...
It actually reduces the length of the 'pits' made in the CD. Nothing to do with compressing the data...
But I guess expecting you to read the article would be so
When the Yang-tze flooded in China, and when a dam broke-up years ago, the death toll was in excess of 100K. Did you even hear of that? When you hear of Kashmir, you never hear of the 60K deaths in the last 50yrs. Do you think Europe/America would have taken anything of that magnitude?
Space exploration will cost lives. Those who are willing to pay that price, will be able to make it. Those who are not, will not.
For a world-wide problem with worms, cross-platform worms are not required - just a simultaneous release of single platform worms. The spreading algo would be common, the payload and infection mechanism platform specific.
One for windows, one for linux, one for routers/switches...
Imagine the impact. Would the internet survive?
The only things preventing this might be the fact that no single person has the required experience in all the platforms, and vulnerabilities in non-windows OS's are typically more difficult to exploit.
It'a actually already there... We just think they are dupes :-)
There's a company called radiotime working on something like this. Don't know if they are doing the hardware, but they are working on cataloging of radio sites. You should be able to choose the programs you want, and download on to your portable mp3 player, and also time-shift it to whenever you want.
Looks like you don't really realize the power of nucs. Years will more likely be centuries or millenia.
It doesn't mean that the person scanned 700K IP's. It might mean that it is a possibility based on the code, or a possible code flow causes a memory leak.
... they would know anyway??
A lot of people seem to think that the pricing is too high. However, the target market - the middle-class/upper-class, could easily afford this. In my house the telephone bill (mostly due to net) comes to around Rs.2,500. I would jump at this opportunity, and so would almost all of my friends.
Now whether 128Kbps is broadband is a different argument, but it sure beats crappy 33.1Kbps, and there would be no per-minute charge!!
Slightly OT. The IIT (Indian Inst of Tech. ) decided a few years ago, that waiting for multi-nationals to bring in new tech that was cheap enough for use in India was pointless. The MNC's were used to at least $40 revenue per phone line per month, and that is what they were expecting in India. The IIT decided that it would go for lower-cost/lower-speed solutions using the latest in tech to drive the prices down, instead of increasing the features.
A famous anecdote that one of the Professors there likes to relate - Around the 80's , all the digital phone switches used in India were imported. Companies like Alcatel, Ericsson, etc. used to charge a hefty bundle for them. Then C-DoT (Center for Development of Telecom) stepped in and made their own digital switch for a fraction of the cost. Almost overnight, the MNC's were forced to drop their prices in order to compete. This is what Banyan Networks, and a host of other small startups, incubated at IIT, want to do in India.
Oh yeah, going above 640Kb was reserved strictly for the SM fans. One had to deal with all sorts of interrupts etc. to 'get' memory from the OS.
How anyone ever programmed anything is still an unsolved mystery. Although some might argue that it forced a great deal of thriftyness. If we saw that kind of coding now, no one would need a 2.4GHz P4 for word processing - although the apps would probably take a few years longer to develop - or maybe more of us would have jobs ;-)...
You wanna share 2Mbps,( and pay through your nose), or you wanna share 11Mbps (.11b), 54Mbps(.11a,g) ??
Especially if this is a fixed application, and doesn't need to be truly mobile?
Okay, let me get this straight. One guy calls world public opinion a second superpower. Another guy calls informed netizens a second superpower a few days (weeks?) later. Now the Reg is upset that the first guy is not showing up on Google? What the f*** ??
Does he have a right to come first on a google search? Maybe if more people linked to him, he would be first. How is this a conspiracy? Is there any evidence that Google actively did this? If they are so pissed about it, may be they should start a link campaign, or propagate their version of the "second superpower" more...
That statement doesn't say whether he will NOT buy _free_ software, merely says that they might not develop their own open-source sw. They might buy proprietary sw, they might buy free sw, just as long as the lead-in time is cut down.
But with Quantum Programming it would be a correct requirement, all you need to figure out is how to program in multiple universes at the same time!!!
;-)!!
Voila! An infinite amount of experience to be had, even in one day!!
Although the problem might then be producing something that an infinite number of monkeys can't do
Arguing with a Quantum Programmer is like wrestling with an infinite number of monkeys - or something...
This guy didn't even read the article, or is simply flame-baiting, what the minister said isn't too bad.
Mr.Shourie, the Minister for IT, said, "Do not expect a general decision from government on this," and said that each branch of the government would make a case-by-case decision on which software to use.
Remember software is a tool, not a religion. There are some cases where closed-source may be more appropriate.
For example - "If there is an important security software that we need urgently, for example, we are more likely to buy it, than spend time deciding whether we should develop it in India in open source," Shourie added.
While the standard is part of CDMA2000, and part of the uplink from the cell phone to the base station uses CDMA, the downlink uses TDMA exclusively to increase the total throughput. The downlink is transmitting to only ONE user at a time.
If you want to make sure go ahead and read one of the published papers that you have linked to on the Qualcomm site.
This is in fact not even CDMA - the voice technology used by Verizon. It is a TDMA technique which uses the fact that data is NOT delay-sensitive to increase the data-rate by waiting out 'bad times'.
The technology provides a high bandwidth to users who are in 'less noisy' areas, where the signal is powerful, and a lower rate, delayed stream to users who are in 'more noisy' areas.
The technology is Qualcomm's and they are coming up with a hybrid voice-data called EV-DV where DV = Data Voice).
It's the fake desktop ones that do...
Sorry, you're right. However in the Ev-DO standard, each packet is acked at the wireless layer itself, so there is not much chance of packet errors/loss.
And even if some data is lost, that's ok, because it's only IP, and as we all know TCP/IP has been designed for highly lossy networks. All the loss will add to is the latency, and it is not really that important for plain IP traffic.
Everyone would not be using voice for everything...
The keyboard and mouse are much more powerful in their own ways, and I think most programmers might prefer that.
Come to think of it though, imagine a dictation engine tied to your programming language of choice. The number of possible elements is highly reduced, and it might actually be easier to code....
And they played fair when supplying power, didn't fake maintenance, didn't show false loads on the distribution lines, and try to make themselves a profit, sell power out-of-state and sell it back in-state at higher prices again?
BTW. that's sarcasm...