Goodness, the $40B broadband plan will be a disaster. Lets see. About 10 Million possible connection points (Business + Households) with say 25% takeup (after they will still be competing with ADSL/Cable which is already > 10 Mbits/sec to most) Thats $16k per connection. Lets assume cost of capital (6%) + maintainence(4%) is 10%/annum. So it will cost $1600/annum or $133/month before we add any data costs.
So USA, don't follow our example. Our dear leader K.Rudd is intent on sending us as broke as you.
These guys must have dominated about 50% of the online ads I have seen lateley, with the most cappy slogans. ie Picture of Busty Girl. 'What will you have me do my Lord' The temptation to click on the link has been 0.001% Suprised so many/.ers are into it.
Hmm something seemed to change a few years ago. Spam used to be overwhelming. Since we use the free Msf spam plug in for exchange, and I can't even rememember the last time I got genuine spam. Same with my gmail account.
Are the filters just that effective, or are the spammers giving up?
I just bought a new dell colour laser for $199.00AUD, with ethernet and a linear print path! We bought it for home casual use (100 pages/month) because we were sick of ink jets that clog up when you don't use them regularly. For that price, it will be cheaper for us to chuck the printer when the toner runs out! (I know, enviromental madness, but economic sense)
Nice Analogy pla. The USA is increasingly behaving like a empire at the end of its reign. Fascist behaviour. A beaurocracy out of touch with common morality/sense. A debt that is no longer repayable. The gig is nearly up!
If a script kiddy can get into their system, what do they think the Chineese, Indians, Russians are doing? They should be paying kids who find holes in their system.
I read a book called 'The Tipping Point', where an example was given where 'normal' college students were chosen for a week long experiment. Randomly, some were assigned as guards and some as prisoners. The 'gaurds' became so abusive they needed to terminate the experiment early.
This says to me, that human nature even for a relatively 'normal' person can become abusive given the right situational circumstance, and it's up to a minority of us to be vocal and bring back balance, which is why critisicm of public officials must be allowed.
Lets say I put a 100uF cap on a 100v 50Hz AC line. The reactance is Xc=-1/2piFC = -31.8j This requires about 3.2amps of current and uses 320VA of apparent power but 0W of real power. See a cap or an inductor is an energy storage device and in an AC system they give back what they take. (Of course in the real world there are no such things as perfect inductors/caps (except for superconductors)). They only energy the generator needs to supply are the resistive losses in the transmission system. Don't feel too bad though, it's takes a while to your head around reactive power.
Why not shorten the standard lifetime of patents from 20 years(I think its 20, anyways), to say, for example 5?
Because for most technology, it takes at least 5 years to ramp up, and you often havn't recovered your engineering by then. (I'm talking about real physical products here, not the stupid stuff you often see discussed here like business methods and software patents which should not be allowed)
As a development engineer, I can say that the 'invention' part is only a small part of the pain. The real pain is ironing out the bugs, testing, building relationships with customers and distribution networks, supporting the product and improving the product.
Part of the answer is to say the invention must be in 'active good faith use'. The courts need to determine good faith on a case by case basis. Those who sit on patents loose them, those actively developing and marketing their patented IP get to do so for at least 15 years.
You are being a bit harsh. Yes, they should be performing double blind scientific studies with rats or cows, and I very much doubt there would be measurable effects. BUT There is annecdotal evidence from brain surgeons that nearfield UHF (from cell phones) is causing an alarming increase in brain cancer. The effect is not thermal. Cells are polar and it seems radio waves can damage cells in non thermal ways. Rife found this out. In fact he found the RF resonant point of many cells, and claims he was able to 'selective destroy' certain cells such as cancer cells. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-dVXIcVng He was way ahead of his time, heterdyning two UV light sources to produce vis light, but to still have a wavelength small enough to image living cells.
We just use our company name and a sequential number. (Some machines like Automated Test don't have service tags numbers) eg MYBIZ001 then we put a big sticky label from a label printer somwhere easy to see on the PC/Laptop with its number. All the crap that came with the PC goes into a manila folder in a filing cabinet with the name on the folder. Any other data about the machine is stored in a spreadsheet.
So therefore, application code that is not a part of the kernal, is not subject to GPL? eg. If I write a game that uses an unmodified linux kernal, the game is not part of GPL.
Lets say I'm developing a commercial oven, and we use a Linux RTOS. Now if I write a driver for a specific chip, I have no problem sharing that code, but my customers is part of their competitive IP. Does GPL mean this userland code has to be shared, or would you write an abstration layer, and just share the abstration layer? eg
(have to share)
(don't have to share secret sauce)
Actually, one the main problems they will have is dealing with ETSI EN 300 330-1, which governs the field strength of inductive based transmitters. The USA also has a similar FCC standard but in screwed up volts/m units. We develop 134kHz RFID equipment, which pushes right on the boundary of this standard, and it aint a lot of power. eg a 1200mm x 600mm antenna can just power a 1" RFID tag at 1.5m Remember near field systems loose strength from the transmitter at 1/r3.
So to obey the standards and get useful power you either need to be very close, or use ferrites to help close the magnetic field.
These rapid-traders are mostly playing a game against each other, not against long-term investors.
Yes, but GS billion dollar tading profits come from someone, and I can't see it all from other trading houses.
Me thinks its like a small tax on everyone else ie the price you pay for coming to play.
Have you considered a career in politics?, as your figures are totally unrealistic for home use.
We use S3 for our critical stuff like family photos, videos, docs. Thats around 5GB. (75c/month) Music and DVD's that take up most of the file server space don't go to S3 but are on a mirrored server with very occasional offsite backup.
I also know the guy who's in charge of systems integration for the Ares project. He's a young-earth creationist. I have little faith in the engineering acumen of anyone who can accomplish such a massive feat of ignoring experimental evidence.
WTF has that got to do with systems integration engineering? You can't compare eviloution pseudo science (oh I'll just replicate the creation of new genetic information adding say an infrared sensitive eye through random mutations) with engineering.
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The article was a Joke :- Like Jeremy Clarkson type Joke.
Have you yanks lost your sense of humour?
(btw. My Australian plug which I love was upside down and got 2 out of 10!)
Goodness, the $40B broadband plan will be a disaster.
Lets see.
About 10 Million possible connection points (Business + Households) with say 25% takeup (after they will still be competing with ADSL/Cable which is already > 10 Mbits/sec to most)
Thats $16k per connection. Lets assume cost of capital (6%) + maintainence(4%) is 10%/annum.
So it will cost $1600/annum or $133/month before we add any data costs.
So USA, don't follow our example.
Our dear leader K.Rudd is intent on sending us as broke as you.
Finally! I don't need to switch my A/C to recycle on the way to work.
Just suck in the fumes and feel health benefits baby!!
These guys must have dominated about 50% of the online ads I have seen lateley, with the most cappy slogans. /.ers are into it.
ie Picture of Busty Girl. 'What will you have me do my Lord'
The temptation to click on the link has been 0.001%
Suprised so many
Hmm something seemed to change a few years ago. Spam used to be overwhelming.
Since we use the free Msf spam plug in for exchange, and I can't even rememember the last time I got genuine spam.
Same with my gmail account.
Are the filters just that effective, or are the spammers giving up?
I just bought a new dell colour laser for $199.00AUD, with ethernet and a linear print path!
We bought it for home casual use (100 pages/month) because we were sick of ink jets that clog up when you don't use them regularly.
For that price, it will be cheaper for us to chuck the printer when the toner runs out! (I know, enviromental madness, but economic sense)
Nice Analogy pla.
The USA is increasingly behaving like a empire at the end of its reign.
Fascist behaviour. A beaurocracy out of touch with common morality/sense.
A debt that is no longer repayable.
The gig is nearly up!
If a script kiddy can get into their system, what do they think the Chineese, Indians, Russians are doing? They should be paying kids who find holes in their system.
I read a book called 'The Tipping Point', where an example was given where 'normal' college students were chosen for a week long experiment. Randomly, some were assigned as guards and some as prisoners. The 'gaurds' became so abusive they needed to terminate the experiment early.
This says to me, that human nature even for a relatively 'normal' person can become abusive given the right situational circumstance, and it's up to a minority of us to be vocal and bring back balance, which is why critisicm of public officials must be allowed.
I fear though the USA is trending toward fascism.
Guess I'll have to find why 2 years of almost daily back pain went away after 2 choiro appointments... must of been a coincidence.
Mr C64, Chris is right.
I'm an EEng.
Lets say I put a 100uF cap on a 100v 50Hz AC line.
The reactance is Xc=-1/2piFC = -31.8j
This requires about 3.2amps of current and uses 320VA of apparent power but 0W of real power.
See a cap or an inductor is an energy storage device and in an AC system they give back what they take. (Of course in the real world there are no such things as perfect inductors/caps (except for superconductors)).
They only energy the generator needs to supply are the resistive losses in the transmission system.
Don't feel too bad though, it's takes a while to your head around reactive power.
Why not shorten the standard lifetime of patents from 20 years(I think its 20, anyways), to say, for example 5?
Because for most technology, it takes at least 5 years to ramp up, and you often havn't recovered your engineering by then. (I'm talking about real physical products here, not the stupid stuff you often see discussed here like business methods and software patents which should not be allowed) As a development engineer, I can say that the 'invention' part is only a small part of the pain. The real pain is ironing out the bugs, testing, building relationships with customers and distribution networks, supporting the product and improving the product. Part of the answer is to say the invention must be in 'active good faith use'. The courts need to determine good faith on a case by case basis. Those who sit on patents loose them, those actively developing and marketing their patented IP get to do so for at least 15 years.
BTW, you can do a whole lot from a c64 shell when you're clever.. You're obviously too young to know.
Watchit buddy. If you Peek at my iPhone code, I'll Poke you in the eye!
You are being a bit harsh. Yes, they should be performing double blind scientific studies with rats or cows, and I very much doubt there would be measurable effects. BUT
There is annecdotal evidence from brain surgeons that nearfield UHF (from cell phones) is causing an alarming increase in brain cancer. The effect is not thermal. Cells are polar and it seems radio waves can damage cells in non thermal ways.
Rife found this out. In fact he found the RF resonant point of many cells, and claims he was able to 'selective destroy' certain cells such as cancer cells.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-dVXIcVng
He was way ahead of his time, heterdyning two UV light sources to produce vis light, but to still have a wavelength small enough to image living cells.
Not only that. They want to develop phased array systems with a total power output of 10W. Watch out paper aeroplanes!
We just use our company name and a sequential number. (Some machines like Automated Test don't have service tags numbers)
eg MYBIZ001 then we put a big sticky label from a label printer somwhere easy to see on the PC/Laptop with its number.
All the crap that came with the PC goes into a manila folder in a filing cabinet with the name on the folder.
Any other data about the machine is stored in a spreadsheet.
So therefore, application code that is not a part of the kernal, is not subject to GPL?
eg. If I write a game that uses an unmodified linux kernal, the game is not part of GPL.
oopps.. 'Plain Old text' is not infact plain old text... the previous commant had an example
(Linux Kernal)(TCP/IP Socket)(secret IP) - have to share?
(Linux Kernal)(TCP/IP Socket)(my comms layer)(secret IP) - only share 'my comms layer' ???
So what is the go for niche developers.
Lets say I'm developing a commercial oven, and we use a Linux RTOS.
Now if I write a driver for a specific chip, I have no problem sharing that code, but my customers is part of their competitive IP. Does GPL mean this userland code has to be shared, or would you write an abstration layer, and just share the abstration layer?
eg
(have to share)
(don't have to share secret sauce)
Where's Alan Shore when you need him?
gallons, acres, miles, bushels.. ye gods man, don't you know the rest of the world is metric.
Actually, one the main problems they will have is dealing with ETSI EN 300 330-1, which governs the field strength of inductive based transmitters.
The USA also has a similar FCC standard but in screwed up volts/m units.
We develop 134kHz RFID equipment, which pushes right on the boundary of this standard, and it aint a lot of power.
eg a 1200mm x 600mm antenna can just power a 1" RFID tag at 1.5m
Remember near field systems loose strength from the transmitter at 1/r3.
So to obey the standards and get useful power you either need to be very close, or use ferrites to help close the magnetic field.
These rapid-traders are mostly playing a game against each other, not against long-term investors.
Yes, but GS billion dollar tading profits come from someone, and I can't see it all from other trading houses. Me thinks its like a small tax on everyone else ie the price you pay for coming to play.
Have you considered a career in politics?, as your figures are totally unrealistic for home use.
We use S3 for our critical stuff like family photos, videos, docs. Thats around 5GB.
(75c/month)
Music and DVD's that take up most of the file server space don't go to S3 but are on a mirrored server with very occasional offsite backup.
I also know the guy who's in charge of systems integration for the Ares project. He's a young-earth creationist. I have little faith in the engineering acumen of anyone who can accomplish such a massive feat of ignoring experimental evidence.
WTF has that got to do with systems integration engineering? You can't compare eviloution pseudo science (oh I'll just replicate the creation of new genetic information adding say an infrared sensitive eye through random mutations) with engineering.
Well done for making a positive contribution to society!