Ahh, but you are forgetting one thing. The people in Canada have one power the US doesn't have, they have the power to vote governments out (ie decimate the party). See Campbell/Mulroney or the recent Liberal defeat. Yes they may jave 5 years to wreck the country, but at least you know you can get rid of them. In the US, with all the gerrymandering there are so many safe seats the equivalent could never happen.
Except it is very anti-tourist. My "zip code" has letters in it. I can't type it in, thus pay at the pump has ceased to work at most gas stations in the US. Major pain in the ass.
Bell/Rogers/etc are a monopoly. AKA a market failure, thus heavy government regulation is required since there is no real competition. Allowing bandwidth to be charged at 2$ per gigabyte is ridiculous when it really costs pennies. Have all the charges you want, but at 7 cents a gigabyte. Bell/Rogers/etc are in the TV business, they want expensive bandwidth charges to run companies like netflix out of business. What I find appalling is that the CRTC (regulator) should have investigated what bandwidth actually costs (all costs) and then put a proper return of 15% and regulate it.
Troll? What is the relationship between cows eating grass and not needing antibiotics. Dairy cows are given antibiotics to treat mastitis. That probably is 90% of antibiotic use on a dairy farm. Unless you are talking Monensin?
Fusion splices are the only acceptable option because you can't afford to have a 0.1 dB splice on a long fiber. Too much loss will upset your whole link budget and you will not get an acceptable SNR at the far end.
BTW, I have never read how a fusion splicer works, but all the ones I have used align the fiber and look like they send a current between two metal contacts for ~0.2 seconds that fuse the fiber. I'm pretty sure ultrasound isn't used. When you are trying to align two fibers exactly, vibrating them doesn't sound like a good idea.
I really love these discoveries, because it means someday a game like Spore or Elite will have the actual stars, with the actual planets, with the actual atmospheres. These planets will all be named, etc. etc.
When I was playing Elite/Frontier years ago, I (and I believe scientist too) weren't even 100% sure extra-solar planets existed.
Totally off topic, but I am not sure using an example of how legislators defeated a smoking ban bill is a good example of "Liberty-oriented culture, mindful of the proper small role of government force, this similarly tends to protect everyone's rights" working correctly. I see what you are getting at, but in this case it's a social health issue and "market forces" can't be applied with a broad stroke to social health issues in general and this one especially. Market forces in this case mean the poor/uneducated/etc. end up working in an unsafe (ie second hand smoke) enviroment. Which is just fine from a capitilistic/libertarian point of view, but not so good for the overall "health of society".
I was thinking exactly the same thing.I started reading/joined MUCH later than you, but if I remember right, I didn't see the point in registering before slashdot started the moderation system. Before that everyone read all the comments in a flat structure, so the anonymous cowards were just as important as anyone else.
After actually reading the article in spectrum posted by the parent and the newspaper artcle...Well there are lots of holes. There main argument seems to be the statistical analysis on airline crashes. They try to correlate this with electrical interference. Ok fine, not enough details to discuss it.
The article seems to carry a tone that the researchers are shocked that people break the rules and make phone calls from a plane. There tone seems overly alarming to me.
The actual experiment they do in a plane in just kind of ridiculous. Yes the hooked up a spectrum analyzer and were able to see frequency sprectums of cell phone calls when someone near them made a phone call. Yippee, the researchers have thus demonstrated they know how to use a spectrum analyzer. This is something that can be tested in a lab and check whether a paticular phone overlaps an important air plane frequency. Unless they investigate how signals bounce around a cabin (whcich they wern't with there equipment), I don't see the point.
It looks to me like the researchers took a potentially scary topic, wrote alarming statements ("clear and present danger") and don't have specific proof linking the downing of a plane to a cell phone that overlaps an air plane frequency (test can be done in a lab on all cell phones). Unless they produce better proof, it looks like there are just looking for piles of research cash to be thrown at them.
yes, I agree with you, but.....
I was thinking more for sales people (very likely to need mobile capability) vs. average joy cube worker.
I was just asking these questions because I would like it done right the first time and not half-assed, like I am sure it will be done.
Cell phone anttena are not arranged to point straight up in the air when installed on a tower. Your assumption that it is when a plane is directly overhead of a tower is almost certianly false. It is more likely that the phone is picking up towers off in a downward horizontal direction from the plane.
So? This proves zero. So since USA has 8.8 times more people than Canada then it takes 8.8 times longer to have DSL rolled out.....ummm no.
You can argue things like population density being a factor, but overall population numbers are really irellevant after you hit a certain critical mass. I suspect population densities in US and Canada are comparable.
What would make sense is to see what percentage of households have broadband available to them and see how many of these people of subscribed to broadband. Price and value can then be argued here. I didn't RTFA, so maybe they did this.
Why 100% of households don't have broadband available to them is something to do with phone/cable deregulation and population densisty. If you can prove there is a shortage in DSL/cable equipment you might be able to argue that the USA's larger population comes into play, this is not the case.
Replace CiteSeer and a whole bunch of others, remember not everyone is doing research in one field (CS, law, etc.). I do EE/Physics stuff and that makes it dificult because it is in two fields, I hope google scholar will solve this. A quick search of my name seems they have.
just a note FYI... my undergrad 1950's Physics building in Canada, had a whole helium recycle system for each room (if I remember correctly). When I did experiments we never used it and just let it escape. So I have a feeling, that Canada has the same deal as the US (same market??) and just buys new helium.
GPIB or IEEE488.2 is a standard? Why not use National Instruements (or one of the many generic rip-offs) cards that can be had for a few hundred $$$ (or euros). I have seen linux drivers for the NI cards, but have never used them myself.
This is not a computer screen that you'll be playing UT2K3 on. It's solely for text display, and the contrast is better than it needs to be already.
E-ink (contrast 11:1) states they are beating the wall street journal (7:1) for contrast ratio. This is good, but most people don't read newspaper quality documents all day because your eyes get sore. Laser printers have a contrast ratio of 500:1 or so. That is what they should be aiming for. To say they are all done now is very premature.
t's 800x600 in a ~8" screen, with a much higher DPI than a computer monitor. How much higher res do you want? Besides, this is not for playing games on, it's for reading text.
Umm yeah, fast moving game vs. reading text for long periods of time. The higher the contrast and DPI the less eye strain. Plane and simple.
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Ahh, but you are forgetting one thing. The people in Canada have one power the US doesn't have, they have the power to vote governments out (ie decimate the party). See Campbell/Mulroney or the recent Liberal defeat.
Yes they may jave 5 years to wreck the country, but at least you know you can get rid of them. In the US, with all the gerrymandering there are so many safe seats the equivalent could never happen.
We need a "just works" encryption system for this, so google doesn't know what is stored.
Many hours wasted here over the years, but definitely a very big net benefit.
Except it is very anti-tourist. My "zip code" has letters in it. I can't type it in, thus pay at the pump has ceased to work at most gas stations in the US. Major pain in the ass.
Bell/Rogers/etc are a monopoly. AKA a market failure, thus heavy government regulation is required since there is no real competition. Allowing bandwidth to be charged at 2$ per gigabyte is ridiculous when it really costs pennies. Have all the charges you want, but at 7 cents a gigabyte.
Bell/Rogers/etc are in the TV business, they want expensive bandwidth charges to run companies like netflix out of business.
What I find appalling is that the CRTC (regulator) should have investigated what bandwidth actually costs (all costs) and then put a proper return of 15% and regulate it.
I want a IPv6 /48 prefix from my ISP. That is all. Tunnels are great for testing, but really they have had years and years and years to prepare.
"That 10 MHz bandwidth can provide 60 Mbit/s of data throughput."
You sir have just won a Nobel prize if you can prove that!
Troll? What is the relationship between cows eating grass and not needing antibiotics. Dairy cows are given antibiotics to treat mastitis. That probably is 90% of antibiotic use on a dairy farm. Unless you are talking Monensin?
n=1
Fusion splices are the only acceptable option because you can't afford to have a 0.1 dB splice on a long fiber. Too much loss will upset your whole link budget and you will not get an acceptable SNR at the far end.
BTW, I have never read how a fusion splicer works, but all the ones I have used align the fiber and look like they send a current between two metal contacts for ~0.2 seconds that fuse the fiber. I'm pretty sure ultrasound isn't used. When you are trying to align two fibers exactly, vibrating them doesn't sound like a good idea.
I really love these discoveries, because it means someday a game like Spore or Elite will have the actual stars, with the actual planets, with the actual atmospheres. These planets will all be named, etc. etc.
When I was playing Elite/Frontier years ago, I (and I believe scientist too) weren't even 100% sure extra-solar planets existed.
In your first link it doesn't say it was published in "The Economist". It says written by the CPE Economist. Not the same thing.
moderators, helllo?????????
MOD UP.
Totally off topic, but I am not sure using an example of how legislators defeated a smoking ban bill is a good example of "Liberty-oriented culture, mindful of the proper small role of government force, this similarly tends to protect everyone's rights" working correctly. I see what you are getting at, but in this case it's a social health issue and "market forces" can't be applied with a broad stroke to social health issues in general and this one especially. Market forces in this case mean the poor/uneducated/etc. end up working in an unsafe (ie second hand smoke) enviroment. Which is just fine from a capitilistic/libertarian point of view, but not so good for the overall "health of society".
I was thinking exactly the same thing.I started reading/joined MUCH later than you, but if I remember right, I didn't see the point in registering before slashdot started the moderation system. Before that everyone read all the comments in a flat structure, so the anonymous cowards were just as important as anyone else.
The article seems to carry a tone that the researchers are shocked that people break the rules and make phone calls from a plane. There tone seems overly alarming to me.
The actual experiment they do in a plane in just kind of ridiculous. Yes the hooked up a spectrum analyzer and were able to see frequency sprectums of cell phone calls when someone near them made a phone call. Yippee, the researchers have thus demonstrated they know how to use a spectrum analyzer. This is something that can be tested in a lab and check whether a paticular phone overlaps an important air plane frequency. Unless they investigate how signals bounce around a cabin (whcich they wern't with there equipment), I don't see the point.
It looks to me like the researchers took a potentially scary topic, wrote alarming statements ("clear and present danger") and don't have specific proof linking the downing of a plane to a cell phone that overlaps an air plane frequency (test can be done in a lab on all cell phones). Unless they produce better proof, it looks like there are just looking for piles of research cash to be thrown at them.yes, I agree with you, but.....
I was thinking more for sales people (very likely to need mobile capability) vs. average joy cube worker.
I was just asking these questions because I would like it done right the first time and not half-assed, like I am sure it will be done.
Does it:
A) Hand off from Skype to GSM network when you go out of WiFi range?
B) Spoof call waiting when you are on Skype?
If it doesn't do these things it is fairly irrelevant for business.
Cell phone anttena are not arranged to point straight up in the air when installed on a tower. Your assumption that it is when a plane is directly overhead of a tower is almost certianly false. It is more likely that the phone is picking up towers off in a downward horizontal direction from the plane.
You can argue things like population density being a factor, but overall population numbers are really irellevant after you hit a certain critical mass. I suspect population densities in US and Canada are comparable.
What would make sense is to see what percentage of households have broadband available to them and see how many of these people of subscribed to
broadband. Price and value can then be argued here. I didn't RTFA, so maybe they did this.
Why 100% of households don't have broadband available to them is something to do with phone/cable deregulation and population densisty. If you can prove there is a shortage in DSL/cable equipment you might be able to argue that the USA's larger population comes into play, this is not the case.
Replace CiteSeer and a whole bunch of others, remember not everyone is doing research in one field (CS, law, etc.). I do EE/Physics stuff and that makes it dificult because it is in two fields, I hope google scholar will solve this. A quick search of my name seems they have.
Or in this case voting is a privelage , not a right.
just a note FYI...
my undergrad 1950's Physics building in Canada, had a whole helium recycle system for each room (if I remember correctly). When I did experiments we never used it and just let it escape. So I have a feeling, that Canada has the same deal as the US (same market??) and just buys new helium.
GPIB or IEEE488.2 is a standard? Why not use National Instruements (or one of the many generic rip-offs) cards that can be had for a few hundred $$$ (or euros). I have seen linux drivers for the NI cards, but have never used them myself.
E-ink (contrast 11:1) states they are beating the wall street journal (7:1) for contrast ratio. This is good, but most people don't read newspaper quality documents all day because your eyes get sore. Laser printers have a contrast ratio of 500:1 or so. That is what they should be aiming for. To say they are all done now is very premature.
Umm yeah, fast moving game vs. reading text for long periods of time. The higher the contrast and DPI the less eye strain. Plane and simple.
sources:
www.eink.com/pdf/eink_key_benefits_02.pdf
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