DSL IMHO is the big problem. Our digital economy is to reliant on it, and it's to limited. Here's why:
It's limited based on distance from the POP (point of presence). As a result, there needs to be rather plentiful hardware to cover an area. So when they started deployment, they scattered some about. See if DSL would catch on... it did.
But the problem is, filling in the gaps isn't cost effective. So there are many small gaps, but it isn't worth the cost to the DSL provider to blanket the area.
Cable on the other hand, has the advantage of blanket coverage. They know they have customers with no options (other than satellite). As a result, they can charge however much they want. If you want broadband, you'll pay it.
IMHO the best option will be when Phone, TV, Internet come in as one fiber into the house. Enough bandwidth for all communications/entertainment needs. As easy to get as a phoneline is today. Connected when they build a house, and you can call to have them activate it.
That will be when broadband will rule.
Phone #, IP should be issued with the line.
Then you pay for service (phone service, email, music download service, Cable TV, VOD, etc.) Anyone can provide them.
Some federal solution IMHO would be best. Provide the bandwidth and IP's. Terminate the line in the house basement. From there on, the homeowner deals with it. Get a router, go wireless, etc. etc.
Cap uplink at perhaps 512k (more than enough for a home user).
If you want to run your own servers, you can contract someone to run a dedicated line for them. communications lines are for personal use only.
That would IMHO be the best option. Fast stable internet in every home...
Imagine how great it would be knowing all americans had broadband. Communication could be endless. Things such as webhosting would include the ability to run a streaming TV station. Talk about taking back the media. You could have your own TV station with nationwide reach.
Cable companies no longer have a monopoly over networks in neighborhoods. In theory as an IP network, it could be a company in CA providing service to your NYC appartment.
Could even get Japaneese TV as good as the Japaneese do.
VoIP would make phone calls much cheaper too.
Life would be sweet.
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Well the only thing more annoying than betamax IMHO is those 3/4 inch tapes. For some reason they are still used by some media companies internally, and B2B. Large, heavy, and the decks are a real pain in the ass to operate. Not to mention dub to another tape, and quite a bit of quality is lost.
Ah quicktime, the ideal video format for transfering video across offices.
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1. Marketing: Trade shows, and when games are plugged on TV, it's very rarely the games sounds. It's normally a mix tape providing some audio to set the mood. Often techno, or hard rock. The focus in this case needs to be the graphics. Graphics are what makes the game look attractive in these important media outlets. Graphics are what sell. The audio is a mere bonus.
2. People don't care as much about sound. Not to many people have a 5.1 system hooked up to their computer. More and more college kids have a laptop now. This means the 18-21 crowd has intel integrated audio, rather than high tech audio PCI cards. And quite often headphones are used.
Audio is expensive. Between a card (which isn't to bad), and expensive speakers. Video is mainly the card.
If you have to sacrifice one, most people pick audio. Because having a low frame rate stinks. But playing a game on mute (and having the football game on tv instead) is more desirable.
It's marketing. People care more about video, so that's the focus. Drastically less is audio. So that's why audio is 'forgotten'.
Tomorrow intel will announce it's achieved tempuratures greater than Sun (fire ball in middle of solar system, not server company).
Intel's product line will include an alternative to the popular "George Foreman Grill". Intel's grill, powered by the PIV processor will grill a "Big George" style hamburger in under 30ns.
Microsoft is expected to make an announcement in coming weeks to annouce it plans to dominate the college cookware industry by selling inferior products at lower costs with Hamburger DRM.
Here is what I used to do
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I took a bunch of free hosting accounts, plus my personal site. And posted my papers online. Sometimes each word in the paper linked to another copy of the paper (which did the same thing).
So when the paper's due date had enough time to let me pull this little prank... it was normally never returned to me.
A few times the teacher exempt me from what was a terrible paper, simply because they never got it back from the librarian running the plagarism check.
Sometimes my name would be on top of the line copies, sometimes on the bottom, sometimes even in the HTML (when I wanted to really tick them off).
Other times I would break up my paper, and post a sentence on each page.
No rule against doing stuff like this. And it's a boatload of fun knowing your wasting someone's time!
Perhaps in the future they will pay you based on where you drive? Or perhaps speed?
Go 70 Miles in an hour on a road with a 65MPH limit... your rate goes up.
Go drive alongside a mountain... your rate goes up.
Perhaps night driving too? Especially on New Years Eve.
I could see this working for some people, and saving them a load of cash. But I could see some people really do get a bargan with insurance if you think about the cr@p they do.
I wrote a paper about how some of this stuff is impacting the environment not to long ago. I thought I had an idea, ends up the actual numbers are WAY higher than I ever would have thought.
It was an Environmental Bio paper, for my gen ed lab requirement. I'm a Business MIS/Comp Sci student, so like all students in the class, you orient the paper towards your field.
Airport express is more compact (no extra crap to carry around). It also has airtunes (hopefully someone will get a driver for mac/windows/linux so it can do more than just music).
when more conservative countries in the middle east and NK, China were/are censoring what their people are allowed to see... saying it violates the rights of 'free people'.
I think it's time for people to stop urinating on the constitution. Sadly, it's not just those who hate America. It's the very politicians who accuse everyone of hating america.
200 years later America is still only for upper class white males between the ages of 18-35 gainfully employed with an automobile, and a dwelling of at least 2 bedrooms for rent (in a neighborhoood deemed 'middle class' or better) or a dwelling of at least 2 bedrooms which they own or pay a morgage no more than 20 years on.
I'm sure there's more to add to the above, but it's just to depressing.
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DSL IMHO is the big problem. Our digital economy is to reliant on it, and it's to limited. Here's why:
It's limited based on distance from the POP (point of presence). As a result, there needs to be rather plentiful hardware to cover an area. So when they started deployment, they scattered some about. See if DSL would catch on... it did.
But the problem is, filling in the gaps isn't cost effective. So there are many small gaps, but it isn't worth the cost to the DSL provider to blanket the area.
Cable on the other hand, has the advantage of blanket coverage. They know they have customers with no options (other than satellite). As a result, they can charge however much they want. If you want broadband, you'll pay it.
IMHO the best option will be when Phone, TV, Internet come in as one fiber into the house. Enough bandwidth for all communications/entertainment needs. As easy to get as a phoneline is today. Connected when they build a house, and you can call to have them activate it.
That will be when broadband will rule.
Phone #, IP should be issued with the line.
Then you pay for service (phone service, email, music download service, Cable TV, VOD, etc.) Anyone can provide them.
Some federal solution IMHO would be best. Provide the bandwidth and IP's. Terminate the line in the house basement. From there on, the homeowner deals with it. Get a router, go wireless, etc. etc.
Cap uplink at perhaps 512k (more than enough for a home user).
If you want to run your own servers, you can contract someone to run a dedicated line for them. communications lines are for personal use only.
That would IMHO be the best option. Fast stable internet in every home...
Imagine how great it would be knowing all americans had broadband. Communication could be endless. Things such as webhosting would include the ability to run a streaming TV station. Talk about taking back the media. You could have your own TV station with nationwide reach.
Cable companies no longer have a monopoly over networks in neighborhoods. In theory as an IP network, it could be a company in CA providing service to your NYC appartment.
Could even get Japaneese TV as good as the Japaneese do.
VoIP would make phone calls much cheaper too.
Life would be sweet.
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Granted. But how many times do you accidentally throw your beta tape against the wall?
Normally you would do that to a John Asscroft and Barbara Bush porno tape "Giving Sweet Hot Justice to the first Mother".
In those cases, being frail is a good thing.
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Well the only thing more annoying than betamax IMHO is those 3/4 inch tapes. For some reason they are still used by some media companies internally, and B2B. Large, heavy, and the decks are a real pain in the ass to operate. Not to mention dub to another tape, and quite a bit of quality is lost.
Ah quicktime, the ideal video format for transfering video across offices.
---
Was my post Informative? Help me get an iPod, by signing up and completing an offer. Get a cool eBay credit card and help me out!
Send you computers to a country that wishes it smelled like that.
:-D
Not to mention save on labor costs.
by slashdotting their site to a grinding hault.
Guess they are taking advantage of their own linux promo.
It's actually 2 parts:
1. Marketing: Trade shows, and when games are plugged on TV, it's very rarely the games sounds. It's normally a mix tape providing some audio to set the mood. Often techno, or hard rock. The focus in this case needs to be the graphics. Graphics are what makes the game look attractive in these important media outlets. Graphics are what sell. The audio is a mere bonus.
2. People don't care as much about sound. Not to many people have a 5.1 system hooked up to their computer. More and more college kids have a laptop now. This means the 18-21 crowd has intel integrated audio, rather than high tech audio PCI cards. And quite often headphones are used.
Audio is expensive. Between a card (which isn't to bad), and expensive speakers. Video is mainly the card.
If you have to sacrifice one, most people pick audio. Because having a low frame rate stinks. But playing a game on mute (and having the football game on tv instead) is more desirable.
It's marketing. People care more about video, so that's the focus. Drastically less is audio. So that's why audio is 'forgotten'.
Not for the dialup dudes, but great for broadband buddies:
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http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2004/23/images
Tomorrow intel will announce it's achieved tempuratures greater than Sun (fire ball in middle of solar system, not server company).
Intel's product line will include an alternative to the popular "George Foreman Grill". Intel's grill, powered by the PIV processor will grill a "Big George" style hamburger in under 30ns.
Microsoft is expected to make an announcement in coming weeks to annouce it plans to dominate the college cookware industry by selling inferior products at lower costs with Hamburger DRM.
Hmm...
I get lots of blog spam like this.
I'll just stick to K-Y.
Well somethings here prove America has serious issues with freedom of speach.
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May want to read why Harry Potter is being attacked in so many places.
Then read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/27
Even the Vatican approves of it!!!
I've went over a few of these on a blog post
finally a girl for the geeks.
/. as well.
Hmm. I'm wondering if perhaps the first MIT student to have sex will make
He should have made one for webservers when the apache process hangs.
His datacenter would be groovy right now.
I'm still going to be lonely.
How much you want to bet, she'll either blow a capacitor or overheat after 10 minutes with me.
Then she's gunna dump me.
And cheat on me with my Mac.
it's about time! :-D
I took a bunch of free hosting accounts, plus my personal site. And posted my papers online. Sometimes each word in the paper linked to another copy of the paper (which did the same thing).
So when the paper's due date had enough time to let me pull this little prank... it was normally never returned to me.
A few times the teacher exempt me from what was a terrible paper, simply because they never got it back from the librarian running the plagarism check.
Sometimes my name would be on top of the line copies, sometimes on the bottom, sometimes even in the HTML (when I wanted to really tick them off).
Other times I would break up my paper, and post a sentence on each page.
No rule against doing stuff like this. And it's a boatload of fun knowing your wasting someone's time!
Perhaps in the future they will pay you based on where you drive? Or perhaps speed?
Go 70 Miles in an hour on a road with a 65MPH limit... your rate goes up.
Go drive alongside a mountain... your rate goes up.
Perhaps night driving too? Especially on New Years Eve.
I could see this working for some people, and saving them a load of cash. But I could see some people really do get a bargan with insurance if you think about the cr@p they do.
Not quite
Do you know how bad people treat disposable cameras?
It's 1-2 uses, then trash.
Most people have no problem treating it like crap... no big deal, your not fined. Just don't go so far that your pics get destroyed.
So 1-2 uses, and LCD in the trash is very bad, since the LCD would likely break first.
The battery they'd most likely reuse.
this is ugly.
I wrote a paper about how some of this stuff is impacting the environment not to long ago. I thought I had an idea, ends up the actual numbers are WAY higher than I ever would have thought.
http://robert.accettura.com/archives/000380.shtml
for anyone interested.
It was an Environmental Bio paper, for my gen ed lab requirement. I'm a Business MIS/Comp Sci student, so like all students in the class, you orient the paper towards your field.
For ages it was rumored that there would be a MS WiFi adapter. Then one was done, but only for certain OS 5 PDA's.
6 .shtml
I emailed SanDisk, and here's what they said:
http://robert.accettura.com/archives/00026
Sucks don't it?
Airport express is more compact (no extra crap to carry around). It also has airtunes (hopefully someone will get a driver for mac/windows/linux so it can do more than just music).
That extra couple dollars is worth the design.
when more conservative countries in the middle east and NK, China were/are censoring what their people are allowed to see... saying it violates the rights of 'free people'.
I think it's time for people to stop urinating on the constitution. Sadly, it's not just those who hate America. It's the very politicians who accuse everyone of hating america.
200 years later America is still only for upper class white males between the ages of 18-35 gainfully employed with an automobile, and a dwelling of at least 2 bedrooms for rent (in a neighborhoood deemed 'middle class' or better) or a dwelling of at least 2 bedrooms which they own or pay a morgage no more than 20 years on.
I'm sure there's more to add to the above, but it's just to depressing.
At least now when I say I had sex with someone who didn't have a pulse, they won't look at me funny.
If only they knew....
... oh wait... that's common already.
I'm still curious about sex.
Doesn't look real Microsoft like.
More stylesheeting, and more XML-like than normal (though still missing a doctype).Freaky.
Perhaps outsourcing is making Microsoft move like tar (rather than a rock) towards web-standards?
Considering MS owns MSNBC, I wouldn't be suprised if it's a bit bias towards it's own property.
I like Google partly for neutrality.