I tried to get X-windows running, failed miserably, and went back to Windows. This was 1998-ish, I think. It may have even been earlier. Back then, you had to have actual SysAdmin skills to use Linux successfully.
I installed Ubuntu on my current machine after a hard drive crash. It works fine. There are a few web-games and videos I can't play/see because they are Windows-centric, but most everything else is good.
So, according to your theory, high-density cities like New York should have broadband on a par with Japan.
No, it would just be a fair comparison at that point. Japan may still win. They probably will, given that they built their way out of their own economic collapse recently.
Of course, this overlooks the fact tht in Japan, just as in New York, it's MORE expensive to trench in a high-density area than in the exurbs, where you can just quickly string the cable along existing utility poles.
And have the cable/internet/phones go down every time it snows. Verizon isn't stringing fiberoptic cable along poles for the simple reason that a break in the fiberoptic is not anywhere near as easy to patch as a break in telephone lines. They are trenching.
And the advantage of high density population centers is that you dig a trench to one apartment building, and now you can snake through the walls to hundreds of customers. And often the utilities already have runs to all of these buildings in place.
And what is the population density in the areas where they are installing this $20/house fiber optic? Do they need to trench through miles of yards to get the lines there? And how much time and resources do they have to exert fighting the local dictators in each and every state/county before they can even begin? A straight "it costs $x vs $y" comparison without looking at all the factors is useless.
Full disclosure: I'm a Christian who 100% believes in evolution and science. The existence of quill pens does not mean Thomas Jefferson did not write the Declaration of Independence.
What the hell do you think religious people have been doing? They've gone a hell of a lot further than 'bashing atheism and nonreligious people'.
Building hospitals, feeding the poor, protesting injustice, treating atheists with respect.
They've also been inciting war, promoting bigotry, and treating anyone outside their sect like pariahs.
Much like atheists, we are not a monolithic block and have VERY diverse opinions. And much like atheists, some of us are dicks.
But from my experience there are a lot more people in the 'building hospitals' camp. It's just that the other camp is really loud.
as an aside, in my fantasy world couldn't we fire the nuclear waste into the Sun? It strikes of the anti-environ folks who claim that humans can't possibly affect the global climate. But as a serious question, could we as a planet possibly produce enough nuclear waste to actually affect the Sun significantly enough to matter to us? If we shorten it's life by a million years, isn't that still 2-3 million years before we get there?
Are you seriously asking if our nuclear waste would adversely affect an uncontrolled fusion reaction almost a million times the mass of the Earth?
No, this is Maryland. They will just create new scratchoff lottery tickets to pay for 'upgrades' to the cameras. And somehow that money will never be spent on the vaporware cameras.
My take on Ruby (admittedly limited), is that it's Perl written in Reverse Polish Notation. Instead of 'sort list', you do 'list.sort'.
If you'rea big fan of OO, Ruby is the tool for you. If you're dashing off a quick hack to rearrange that text file, Perl is gonna be your tool of choice.
So now they will need to monitor the amount of bandwidth you use, set up a database to keep track of it, change their billing software so it can deal with variable billing, and verify that the customer actually paid the (variable) correct amount. All to collect a few bucks from a few customers.
There's a reason the phone companies go to unlimited calling plans. It means they save big bucks on the hardware and software needed to keep track of your usage. Those systems are not cheap and they eat into the computing power that could be used for routing calls. So instead they jack up your bill by the average amount you would spend, and let you go to town. They still get the money, but they don't have to maintain (as much of) a billing system.
AT&T will try this for a while, realize it's a losing proposition that annoys their customers, and go back to the way it was.
(This assumes rational behavior, of course. That is definitely not a given)
There's this amazing device combo called pen-and-paper that is astonishingly good for jotting down a quick note. Zero boot time, no batteries, very light, and costs about $3.
The search capabilities are pretty primitive, but examples have been shown to be still accessible after nearly 2000 years!
How in the world would you enforce such a licensing clause? Unless the output is DRMed in some way, they could just remove any markings that indicate it came from your program. Besides, an ethical researcher using your program would already cite the source of the data and an unethical researcher would just ignore any stipulations in the license.
* M-type (16 Psyche) metallic objects, the third most populous group.
* E-type (44 Nysa, 55 Pandora) differ from M-type mostly by high albedo
* P-type (259 Aletheia, 190 Ismene; CP: 324 Bamberga) differ from M-type mostly by low albedo
So, the probe has encountered a shiny metal asteroid. Has anyone informed Bender?
They didn't because it turns out the number is 7. The math crowd are really embarrassed that they missed it when they were checking the first time.
"Look, no one searches for Mersenne Primes down there, because we all know they've been found. That someone made a typo and left out 7 went undiscovered for years. We don't like to talk about it."
The "looking over the shoulder" vs. "read someone's email" analogy is flawed. This would need to be two separate analogies. Looking over their shoulder to read a letter vs. looking over their shoulder to read an email on the screen, and accessing someone's email account vs. breaking onto their house and reading the letters they keep in a drawer in their bedroom.
The former is rude, but not generally prosecuted. The latter is a crime.
Is there some reason why a router in orbit would behave differently in any way from a router sitting in a rack in the server room? (Other than floating, etc.)
Here's a reply from a non-realtor who once tried to sell a house, then gave up and had a realtor do it. You get . . .
Your house listed in the MLS that all the local realtors are looking at. This is where a LOT of people are looking for houses.
Someone to show the house off in a professional manner. A good realtor know how to emphasize the good parts, and downplay the flaws, while not violating due disclosure laws.
Someone to be there when the potential buyer wants to see the house. Never underestimate the value of not having to take time off of work only to find out the buyer isn't even vaguely serious.
Someone to fill out the legal papers. This is doable by a layman, but it's nice to know someone who has done it a few times is taking care of it.
Someone to smack you in the back of head and remind you that it's not going to be your house. Swallow your damn pride and paint over that mural of Gandalf dueling Obi Wan you put in the dining room.
Contacts. You don't know the realtors in the area, or the people who are looking to buy. Your realtor does (if they're any good).
Now, you have to ask yourself if all of that is worth between 5% and 7% of the sale price of your house. If you're a good salesman, and are willing to put up with the hassles, selling the house yourself will save you some money. But if time is not on your side or you just don't want to deal with the process, hiring someone can be a good deal.
Wait, are you trying to tell me the earth is not composed of precisely circular layers colored red, orange, and yellow, with an itty-bitty circle of brown on the outside? Next you'll try telling me there isn't a gigantic wedge-shaped cutout from pole to pole in the pacific ocean.
If you think people don't care about over-the-air programming anymore, you're probably only talking to well-off people. I know people who can't afford extra money every month for cable. But they could afford a one-time outlay for a small TV.
Also, how's that cable gonna work on a boat, or camping? There's still a good market for cheap TVs.
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Oh dear God.
The original Trek only rarely dealt with the Klingons. It was more about the crew exploring the unknown.
This is just a fanboi snit.
I tried to get X-windows running, failed miserably, and went back to Windows. This was 1998-ish, I think. It may have even been earlier. Back then, you had to have actual SysAdmin skills to use Linux successfully.
I installed Ubuntu on my current machine after a hard drive crash. It works fine. There are a few web-games and videos I can't play/see because they are Windows-centric, but most everything else is good.
No, it would just be a fair comparison at that point. Japan may still win. They probably will, given that they built their way out of their own economic collapse recently.
And have the cable/internet/phones go down every time it snows. Verizon isn't stringing fiberoptic cable along poles for the simple reason that a break in the fiberoptic is not anywhere near as easy to patch as a break in telephone lines. They are trenching.
And the advantage of high density population centers is that you dig a trench to one apartment building, and
now you can snake through the walls to hundreds of customers. And often the utilities already have runs to all of these buildings in place.
And what is the population density in the areas where they are installing this $20/house fiber optic? Do they need to trench through miles of yards to get the lines there? And how much time and resources do they have to exert fighting the local dictators in each and every state/county before they can even begin? A straight "it costs $x vs $y" comparison without looking at all the factors is useless.
Full disclosure: I'm a Christian who 100% believes in evolution and science. The existence of quill pens does not mean Thomas Jefferson did not write the Declaration of Independence.
Building hospitals, feeding the poor, protesting injustice, treating atheists with respect.
They've also been inciting war, promoting bigotry, and treating anyone outside their sect like pariahs.
Much like atheists, we are not a monolithic block and have VERY diverse opinions. And much like atheists, some of us are dicks.
But from my experience there are a lot more people in the 'building hospitals' camp. It's just that the other camp is really loud.
Damnit, you owe me a new Coke-free keyboard.
as an aside, in my fantasy world couldn't we fire the nuclear waste into the Sun? It strikes of the anti-environ folks who claim that humans can't possibly affect the global climate. But as a serious question, could we as a planet possibly produce enough nuclear waste to actually affect the Sun significantly enough to matter to us? If we shorten it's life by a million years, isn't that still 2-3 million years before we get there?
Are you seriously asking if our nuclear waste would adversely affect an uncontrolled fusion
reaction almost a million times the mass of the Earth?
Ah, but were you showing them TV a lot? That tends to destroy even invertebrates'
personalities.
No, this is Maryland. They will just create new scratchoff lottery tickets to pay for 'upgrades' to the cameras. And somehow that money will never be spent on the vaporware cameras.
My take on Ruby (admittedly limited), is that it's Perl written in Reverse
Polish Notation. Instead of 'sort list', you do 'list.sort'.
If you'rea big fan of OO, Ruby is the tool for you. If you're dashing off
a quick hack to rearrange that text file, Perl is gonna be your tool of choice.
So now they will need to monitor the amount of bandwidth you use, set up a database to keep track of it, change their billing software so it can deal with variable billing, and verify that the customer actually paid the (variable) correct amount. All to collect a few bucks from a few customers.
There's a reason the phone companies go to unlimited calling plans. It means they save big bucks on the hardware and software needed to keep track of your usage. Those systems are not cheap and they eat into the computing power that could be used for routing calls. So instead they jack up your bill by the average amount you would spend, and let you go to town. They still get the money, but they don't have to maintain (as much of) a billing system.
AT&T will try this for a while, realize it's a losing proposition that annoys their customers, and go back to the way it was.
(This assumes rational behavior, of course. That is definitely not a given)
My plan is perhaps in the next 12 months I'll begin maybe to believe this is something more than vaporware.
There's this amazing device combo called pen-and-paper that is astonishingly good for jotting down a quick note. Zero boot time, no batteries, very light, and costs about $3.
The search capabilities are pretty primitive, but examples have been shown to be still accessible after nearly 2000 years!
Not every problem requires a high tech solution.
How in the world would you enforce such a licensing clause? Unless the output is DRMed in some way, they could just remove any markings that indicate it came from your program. Besides, an ethical researcher using your program would already cite the source of the data and an unethical researcher would just ignore any stipulations in the license.
They're a race of evil inhuman plunderers. There's no way you'll be able to win against THEIR lawyers.
From the linked Wikipedia entry:
# X-group
* M-type (16 Psyche) metallic objects, the third most populous group.
* E-type (44 Nysa, 55 Pandora) differ from M-type mostly by high albedo
* P-type (259 Aletheia, 190 Ismene; CP: 324 Bamberga) differ from M-type mostly by low albedo
So, the probe has encountered a shiny metal asteroid. Has anyone informed Bender?
They didn't because it turns out the number is 7. The math
crowd are really embarrassed that they missed it when they
were checking the first time.
"Look, no one searches for Mersenne Primes down there, because
we all know they've been found. That someone made a typo and
left out 7 went undiscovered for years. We don't like to talk
about it."
The "looking over the shoulder" vs. "read someone's email" analogy is flawed. This would need to be two separate analogies. Looking over their shoulder to read a letter vs. looking over their shoulder to read an email on the screen, and accessing someone's email account vs. breaking onto their house and reading the letters they keep in a drawer in their bedroom.
The former is rude, but not generally prosecuted. The latter is a crime.
I try not to talk loudly around it, and make sure it's emotional needs are met.
Yes, because there aren't 746 helicopters flying over it.
Is there some reason why a router in orbit would behave differently in any way from a router sitting in a rack in the server room? (Other than floating, etc.)
Now, you have to ask yourself if all of that is worth between 5% and 7% of the sale price of your house. If you're a good salesman, and are willing to put up with the hassles, selling the house yourself will save you some money. But if time is not on your side or you just don't want to deal with the process, hiring someone can be a good deal.
I have yet to find a diet that makes my legs shorter.
Wait, are you trying to tell me the earth is not composed of precisely circular layers colored red, orange, and yellow, with an itty-bitty circle of brown on the outside? Next you'll try telling me there isn't a gigantic wedge-shaped cutout from pole to pole in the pacific ocean.
If you think people don't care about over-the-air programming anymore, you're probably only talking to well-off people. I know people who can't afford extra money every month for cable. But they could afford a one-time outlay for a small TV.
Also, how's that cable gonna work on a boat, or camping? There's still a good market for cheap TVs.