But don't make the same mistake in reverse (ie, don't assume that use of mesh means throwing out the towers).
Obviously adding hops adds delay; but lots of data applications don't mind some additional latency. Again, don't assume that it's always "all or nothing". Perhaps bulk data could use mesh links while urgent data could try to hit a tower more directly, when possible.
I'm excited to hear about "relay" being used with LTE. This seems like a small step forward.
What if spectrum were handled as follows: - FCC would dictate what "protocol" would be assigned to a given range. - Anyone who set up a tower for that range would have to accept communication from any device using that protocol and then route it to the internet. - Towers should automatically figure out what other towers are nearby and control their signals to not interfere with each other (as well as take care of hand-off).
Sure, there are various technical challenges in there, but I fully expect that technology could handle this.
I think the notion of giving only one company exclusive rights to spectrum is one that hasn't caught up with what technology allows.
You're making the assumption that the tower-node communication model is the only one possible. Let nodes talk to each other, and lots of possibilities open up.
You're taking him too literally. The idea is that Sealand would pay another entity, like say Sea Launch, to put the satellites up. Of course, in this case it wouldn't happen due to the expense.
But it's still a novel idea. What if you put the servers on the satellite as well? Anyone with an appropriate dish could access it. What country would be able to say "You can't put that data up there!" (This is assuming that one could overcome all the issues surrounding satellite positioning and bandwidth allocation and footprints and such; space is kind of crowded already.)
Same here. I don't care for plain coffee, but I like it very much once it's loaded with milk and sugar. I'm sensitive to caffeine (I sleep poorly if I have it post-noon), and I also have bad headaches if I discontinue it. I haven't found a substitute morning beverage that's quite as good, though. Tea is just too watery, although I admit I haven't tried every possible recipe. Hot chocolate seems to bother my stomach a bit. And anything else, I wouldn't get "for free" at work.
Yes. The key isn't that you have to scan everything you've got, but rather you just need to stop producing more paper, where possible. Eventually, you'll have less and less, and you'll be able to toss out stuff as it becomes pointless to keep. So sign up for paperless billing, avoid printing things when you can just send yourself an email to your phone, or jotting things down on paper when you can type into your phone, etc.
Although most people probably won't bother reading the actual article, the real gist isn't illustrated well by the anecdote.
There are multiple points brought out in the article. Foreign businesses: - Are much more willing to bend over backwards to meet demands. - Can scale manufacturing up or down much more rapidly. - Can much more quickly find large numbers of workers with the necessary skills. - Are located next to other large scale businesses in the supply chain. - Tend to easily get government financing to scale their operations.
There were additional points, but these ones stuck out for me. The main point wasn't that the US couldn't *do* any of the needed work, but that in the US it would happen much much more slowly and less conveniently.
The Chinese government stated that it has labor laws that technically make the anecdote illegal. But I suppose there may be some distance between having the laws and enforcing them.
I hear that in some localities, the rain water (that falls on your property) doesn't belong to you, and you're not legally allowed to have rain barrels.
Weather alteration will amplify issues like that, such that countries have to make treaties regarding who can claim which clouds.
Of course, you have to wonder about a range of possibilities: You can make your neighbor have a drought, or potentially have a flood.
If you looked in computer magazines from those days, you'd see some companies selling these black open-ended pyramids. The peak had a camera mount (and a hole for the lens, of course), and you put the big open end over the monitor face; the purpose was to eliminate all the reflected light.
It seems strange to argue about publish/no-publish as if those are the only 2 options. What about distributing information confidentially to labs that can work on fighting the disease? Sure, some would argue that that really amounts to "publish", given that nothing can be kept truly confidential. But in such cases (as with many), it's really about the timing. You want to maximize the time the "white hats" have the info and minimize the time that "black hats" can get to it easily. You want to provide the info to as many reliable "white hats" as you'll want to risk, since the larger the pool, the larger the chance of leaks. It really seems like an interesting optimization problem with multiple solutions, far beyond the original dilemma of publish/no-publish.
The concept is okay, but I'm sure there will be issues with the execution. Companies will attempt to grow this stuff using the lowest-cost possible inputs, and the result will more than likely not be something that you'd want to put into your body. Garbage in, garbage out. Think of farmed fish, for instance. While it could be a good idea, the reality is that fish farmers use the cheapest possible fish feed (often including waste products from other animal industries) and try to maximize the number of fish per pen. The result is lots of diseased fish in a small volume, so then they add in the antibiotics... and things go downhill from there.
The easiest approach to prototype or make a small number of devices is to hack existing devices such as USB game controllers (or HID devices of any sort, really). Tear them open, wire up your own switches and knobs. Then you can typically use the controller's own software to map each button to a keystroke or other action.
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"Hmm, it's not charging." "Try rebooting the power plug."
Heck, why not go all the way: have everyone live stream the video from their cell phones.
Traffic isn't always flowing, after all. (And traffic itself acts like a non-Newtonian fluid, as well.)
But don't make the same mistake in reverse (ie, don't assume that use of mesh means throwing out the towers).
Obviously adding hops adds delay; but lots of data applications don't mind some additional latency. Again, don't assume that it's always "all or nothing". Perhaps bulk data could use mesh links while urgent data could try to hit a tower more directly, when possible.
I'm excited to hear about "relay" being used with LTE. This seems like a small step forward.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network
What if spectrum were handled as follows:
- FCC would dictate what "protocol" would be assigned to a given range.
- Anyone who set up a tower for that range would have to accept communication from any device using that protocol and then route it to the internet.
- Towers should automatically figure out what other towers are nearby and control their signals to not interfere with each other (as well as take care of hand-off).
Sure, there are various technical challenges in there, but I fully expect that technology could handle this.
I think the notion of giving only one company exclusive rights to spectrum is one that hasn't caught up with what technology allows.
You're making the assumption that the tower-node communication model is the only one possible.
Let nodes talk to each other, and lots of possibilities open up.
You're taking him too literally. The idea is that Sealand would pay another entity, like say Sea Launch, to put the satellites up.
Of course, in this case it wouldn't happen due to the expense.
But it's still a novel idea. What if you put the servers on the satellite as well? Anyone with an appropriate dish could access it.
What country would be able to say "You can't put that data up there!" (This is assuming that one could overcome all the
issues surrounding satellite positioning and bandwidth allocation and footprints and such; space is kind of crowded already.)
Same here. I don't care for plain coffee, but I like it very much once it's loaded with milk and sugar. I'm sensitive to caffeine (I sleep poorly if I have it post-noon), and I also have bad headaches if I discontinue it. I haven't found a substitute morning beverage that's quite as good, though. Tea is just too watery, although I admit I haven't tried every possible recipe. Hot chocolate seems to bother my stomach a bit. And anything else, I wouldn't get "for free" at work.
Just don't underestimate the latency either!
Yes. The key isn't that you have to scan everything you've got, but rather you just need to stop producing more paper, where possible. Eventually, you'll have less and less, and you'll be able to toss out stuff as it becomes pointless to keep. So sign up for paperless billing, avoid printing things when you can just send yourself an email to your phone, or jotting things down on paper when you can type into your phone, etc.
I wonder what kind of MEMS sensors for accelerometers & gyros it uses that aren't destroyed by the initial acceleration when fired?
Although most people probably won't bother reading the actual article, the real gist isn't illustrated well by the anecdote.
There are multiple points brought out in the article. Foreign businesses:
- Are much more willing to bend over backwards to meet demands.
- Can scale manufacturing up or down much more rapidly.
- Can much more quickly find large numbers of workers with the necessary skills.
- Are located next to other large scale businesses in the supply chain.
- Tend to easily get government financing to scale their operations.
There were additional points, but these ones stuck out for me. The main point wasn't that the US couldn't *do* any of the needed work, but that in the US it would happen much much more slowly and less conveniently.
The Chinese government stated that it has labor laws that technically make the anecdote illegal. But I suppose there may be some distance between having the laws and enforcing them.
Just because it's improbable, doesn't mean it's impossible...
When I say "node", I mean the phone, not the cell tower. Who says the phone can only talk to the cell tower?
Or just a lack of innovation shortage?
With an appropriate network topology, adding more and more nodes to a network increases your overall bandwidth, not decreases it.
Of course, with enough innovation like this, who needs a centralized carrier model anyway?
It will be interesting to see which major carriers adapt to a decentralized model, and which ones die fighting it.
This is a sign that you are getting old. Time to buy a nose-hair trimmer.
I see international problems brewing with this...
I hear that in some localities, the rain water (that falls on your property) doesn't belong to you, and you're not legally allowed to have rain barrels.
Weather alteration will amplify issues like that, such that countries have to make treaties regarding who can claim which clouds.
Of course, you have to wonder about a range of possibilities: You can make your neighbor have a drought, or potentially have a flood.
If you looked in computer magazines from those days, you'd see some companies selling these black open-ended pyramids. The peak had a camera mount (and a hole for the lens, of course), and you put the big open end over the monitor face; the purpose was to eliminate all the reflected light.
No, no; you just need to advertise a new feature.
Here's a better way: http://malecontraceptives.org/methods/risug.php
I was thinking the opposite: A crotch-mounted pouch to keep your iPod or smart phone in.
It seems strange to argue about publish/no-publish as if those are the only 2 options.
What about distributing information confidentially to labs that can work on fighting the disease?
Sure, some would argue that that really amounts to "publish", given that nothing can be kept truly confidential.
But in such cases (as with many), it's really about the timing. You want to maximize the time the "white hats" have the info and minimize the time that "black hats" can get to it easily. You want to provide the info to as many reliable "white hats" as you'll want to risk, since the larger the pool, the larger the chance of leaks.
It really seems like an interesting optimization problem with multiple solutions, far beyond the original dilemma of publish/no-publish.
The concept is okay, but I'm sure there will be issues with the execution. Companies will attempt to grow this stuff using the lowest-cost possible inputs, and the result will more than likely not be something that you'd want to put into your body. Garbage in, garbage out. Think of farmed fish, for instance. While it could be a good idea, the reality is that fish farmers use the cheapest possible fish feed (often including waste products from other animal industries) and try to maximize the number of fish per pen. The result is lots of diseased fish in a small volume, so then they add in the antibiotics... and things go downhill from there.
The easiest approach to prototype or make a small number of devices is to hack existing devices such as USB game controllers (or HID devices of any sort, really). Tear them open, wire up your own switches and knobs. Then you can typically use the controller's own software to map each button to a keystroke or other action.