thanks for the links. I checked them out and I will keep a look out for this technolgy. The Faraday thing only degrades signal at greater than 10 Ghz or so, so not a big deal:)
Also fibre requires additonal percaustion since it really can't be spliced if it is going over any sort of distance.
This is false, unless you are talking about plastic fiber or something. Fiber that is deployed across the country is usually splicd every 2 km or so. It depends on the thikness of the cable. You can only get so much cable to fit on the width of a truck. Splice loss is like.01 dB on a good splice. Sometimes you can't even see the splices on an OTDR.Compared to the attenuation from the glass, the splices are alot less.
You can't compare: a GDP of $10 trillion in 2001, compared to $7.8 trillion for the entire EU
The EU doesn't use dollars it uses euros. You need to take into account purchasing power.It WAS generally accepted that the US dollar WAS overvalued. Not sure if this is still true now (it might have dropped enough?).
So the difference is not as great now. I'm pretty sure the US is still ahead....
Canada has GPRS GSM for 93% of the population. If your in the middle of the wilderness of course you will not get cell phone coverage. The UK doesn't have wilderness. In a country bigger than all of Europe with less than 10% of the EU population, 93% is pretty damn good.
Now if you take a look at the coverage maps below you will see the whole of the USA covered by Cingular (GSM provider w/ proper plan), except for places like rural Nevada, etc. Rural Nevada looks like mars. The only things using cell phones out there are the cacti.
Yes, your right, but go look at your transcript and tell me how many classes the mean mark is F. This varies greatly between schools. I can go take ENG at school #1 and they fail half the class every year. I can go take it at school #2 and they pass 90%. Which is right?
As an aside I took a thermodynamics class once. The highest mark on the exam was a 50%. The class had 10 people. The prof rounded it out so only a few on the bottom failed. 4 of the people in the class are now finishing Med school or grad school at top schools. Was he right to curve?
I took engineering in undergrad and was basically asked to leave at the end of 2nd year, so I switched to physics. Anyway, I was looking at my transcript the other day and I have numerous classes where I got a "D" or so and the class average was an "F". These are classes with 50 or more people. Something seems wrong to me with this. Either the school should have: 1. Tougher entry requirements to ENG or 2. Get rid of the mythical requirements for the course and get the average mark so at least half the class passes. It's ok to make engineering hard, but when they are making it so most of the class is failing that is just crazy and doesn't serve any purpose, but to waste the students time and money.
If ENG is really that hard make it so that the entry rquirement is A+ out of high school. / end rant
And that's not just the bubble - America's GDP growth rate last quarter was much higher than either Germany's or France's, and is predicted to be much higher for next year as well.
And according to this weeks "Economist Magaizine" your socialist northern neighbor will have 2002/2003 of 3.4/3.2 GDP growth vs. the US of 2.4/2.7. So whats your point? It is not as simple as you make it out to be. GDP growth rates are not just based on people working more effiecently (not even close).
The economist also had an article a few months back dispelling the myth that the US was way more effiecent through the 1990's. It was slightly more effiecient than coutries such as Britian, but not as much as the numbers led you to believe.
How about the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory of Eastern Ontario.
The High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) was formed by a consortium of four universities located in Eastern Ontario (Carleton University, Queen's University, The Royal Military College of Canada, and the University of Ottawa). http://www.hpcvl.org/
It's also in the Top 500 supersomputer list, so it must be half-decent. So if four universities can have a dencent computer in Canada, others probably do too.
Could you provide a link to how milk causes cancer? Searching google for "milk cancer" and skipping to the seventh hit...
Milk may help prevent hypertension, stroke, diabetes and osteoporosis, - and now cancer has been added to the list of diseases it protects against. http://www.cancer.org.au/
Now why did I skip to the seventh hit? The vegen and organic sites don't really count.
As for hormones, depends where you live, many places have banned them.
Dietitians still recommend multiple servings of dairy products everyday.
After reading over the original posters message again. I tend to agree it is not a troll at all. They actually belive what they are saying.
To quote the original poster: Sure, convenience is nice, but isn't this just a bit much? They offer a $5 rebate to people who bring them back, but I doubt $5 is going to tempt the rich executives who the article suggests these might be marketed at (though it probably will tempt the lower income people it also mentions).
I believe it is common knowledge that the above statement is false in NA. If you set your 10 cent beer bottles on the curb (becasue you are lazy). They will magically disapear before a recycling truck ever sees them. At least this is true in San Francisco and Ottawa. A $5 return fee would be a large incentive for lower income people to make sure that the rich executives cell phones got returned whether they wanted them to be or not.
Supply/Deman takes care of humans using everything up. The trick is to put the enviormental cost into things.
I would also like to see Euro-style disposal laws for products. I believe this is what you are alluding too?
From the article you quote: Most of the world's declared supply of tantalum is mined as tantalite ore, and comes from Australia. There are also significant reserves in Brazil, Canada and Nigeria. But unofficially, 80 per cent of the world's tantalum reserves are believed to be in Africa, and 80 per cent of those in Congo.
AUSTRALIA is a nice western nation. Stop trolling. If it's not a troll, go take an economics class. Mod this drivel down.
I didn't look too hard at the site, but it seems to me that they are going by a reverse DNS of the hackers domain name. Many countries use.com and.net,etc. So I hope this isn't all counted as the US. If so... well no shit the US has higher numbers.
It is possible that they are smarter than that, advertisers have it figured out.
Copper telephone wires have a THEORETICAL maximum bandwidth that has not changed. Simple physics. The bandwidth is X and the attenuation per meter is Y. All the advances have been in Tx and Rx. They haven't been doping the copper etc. (AFAIK) to increase SNR. So it depends what you call common knowledge. TX and Rx has gotten better, the copper has not.
mod the parent down. Lithium Niobate Modulaters go at 20 Ghz ( I have one sitting in front of me in a box). http://www.eospace.com/ Hell they even have a 40 Gb/s, but it isn't that good. Anyway if you want to redirect the light beam you can use a lithium niobate polarization controller and have polarization dependent componets at the output that only let certain states of light through (and attenuate the rest) and thus you are redirecting the beam down a different waveguide in the ps range.
I am sure there are easier ways. But it is saturday morning....
The author of the article seems to keep saying there isn't a problem with USENET encoding, but then goes onto complain that yenc shouldn't be used. He points out flaws in how this encoding scheme is implemented. fine fine fine.
There was a market for this thing, it spread like wild fire. It's too bad that no one made a better spec and program (the author aludes that there was planty of time to do this). yenc meets the "GOOD ENOUGH" criteria, thus it will be used, shitty, non-robust standard or not.
I assume it woould be on Rogers. They will have GPRS nation-wide in all markets by the summer. It is in all major cities now. So I'm guessing this thing will work almost everywhere.
The American Dollar is overvalued. That is a fact. The Economist harps on about it every week. This would not matter if America didn't trade with any other countries and were there own little island. The Dollar will drop soon though, it is not sustainable.
The UK is not in a recession. The US (and NA, Japan, most of the EU, etc) all are in a recession. I would guess CD sales are 80% a function of how much disposible income someone has and 20% a function of file shring and other things.....
The English versions will just be pirated over IRC, etc. There are little windows tools to turn the English in programs into Chinese (or any other language). So withdrawing from the market will not really kill priacy. It is only worth withdrawing if your not making money (obviously).
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thanks for the links. I checked them out and I will keep a look out for this technolgy. The Faraday thing only degrades signal at greater than 10 Ghz or so, so not a big deal :)
Do you have any links to this technology?
BTW, Faraday effect WILL change the polarization state of the light.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/
Says it's starting Season 32. There are many show called Marketplace.
Also fibre requires additonal percaustion since it really can't be spliced if it is going over any sort of distance.
This is false, unless you are talking about plastic fiber or something. Fiber that is deployed across the country is usually splicd every 2 km or so. It depends on the thikness of the cable. You can only get so much cable to fit on the width of a truck. Splice loss is like
a GDP of $10 trillion in 2001, compared to $7.8 trillion for the entire EU
The EU doesn't use dollars it uses euros. You need to take into account purchasing power.It WAS generally accepted that the US dollar WAS overvalued. Not sure if this is still true now (it might have dropped enough?).
So the difference is not as great now. I'm pretty sure the US is still ahead....
Now if you take a look at the coverage maps below you will see the whole of the USA covered by Cingular (GSM provider w/ proper plan), except for places like rural Nevada, etc. Rural Nevada looks like mars. The only things using cell phones out there are the cacti.
sources:
http://www.pcsws.com/coverage.html
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As an aside I took a thermodynamics class once. The highest mark on the exam was a 50%. The class had 10 people. The prof rounded it out so only a few on the bottom failed. 4 of the people in the class are now finishing Med school or grad school at top schools. Was he right to curve?
It is not a simple as you paint it.
I took engineering in undergrad and was basically asked to leave at the end of 2nd year, so I switched to physics.
Anyway, I was looking at my transcript the other day and I have numerous classes where I got a "D" or so and the class average was an "F". These are classes with 50 or more people. Something seems wrong to me with this.
Either the school should have:
1. Tougher entry requirements to ENG
or
2. Get rid of the mythical requirements for the course and get the average mark so at least half the class passes.
It's ok to make engineering hard, but when they are making it so most of the class is failing that is just crazy and doesn't serve any purpose, but to waste the students time and money.
If ENG is really that hard make it so that the entry rquirement is A+ out of high school.
/ end rant
And that's not just the bubble - America's GDP growth rate last quarter was much higher than either Germany's or France's, and is predicted to be much higher for next year as well.
And according to this weeks "Economist Magaizine" your socialist northern neighbor will have 2002/2003 of 3.4/3.2 GDP growth vs. the US of 2.4/2.7.
So whats your point? It is not as simple as you make it out to be. GDP growth rates are not just based on people working more effiecently (not even close).
The economist also had an article a few months back dispelling the myth that the US was way more effiecent through the 1990's. It was slightly more effiecient than coutries such as Britian, but not as much as the numbers led you to believe.
tiny mirrors are MEMS. MEMS work well (in small quantities). They don't suck.
Virtual Laboratory of Eastern Ontario.
The High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) was formed by a consortium of four universities located in Eastern Ontario (Carleton University, Queen's University, The Royal Military College of Canada, and the University of Ottawa).
http://www.hpcvl.org/
It's also in the Top 500 supersomputer list, so it must be half-decent. So if four universities can have a dencent computer in Canada, others probably do too.
This was posted Sept 27/02
Here's the link:
Repost
Milk may help prevent hypertension, stroke, diabetes and osteoporosis, - and
now cancer has been added to the list of diseases it protects against.
http://www.cancer.org.au/
Now why did I skip to the seventh hit? The vegen and organic sites don't really count.
As for hormones, depends where you live, many places have banned them.
Dietitians still recommend multiple servings of dairy products everyday.
This thing will have Brutual PMD because of the freezing and thawing. They will most likely need an electrical regen somewhere or use slow speeds.
To quote the original poster:
Sure, convenience is nice, but isn't this just a bit much? They offer a $5 rebate to people who bring them back, but I doubt $5 is going to tempt the rich executives who the article suggests these might be marketed at (though it probably will tempt the lower income people it also mentions).
I believe it is common knowledge that the above statement is false in NA. If you set your 10 cent beer bottles on the curb (becasue you are lazy). They will magically disapear before a recycling truck ever sees them. At least this is true in San Francisco and Ottawa. A $5 return fee would be a large incentive for lower income people to make sure that the rich executives cell phones got returned whether they wanted them to be or not.
Supply/Deman takes care of humans using everything up. The trick is to put the enviormental cost into things.
I would also like to see Euro-style disposal laws for products. I believe this is what you are alluding too?
Most of the world's declared supply of tantalum is mined as tantalite ore, and comes from Australia. There are also significant reserves in Brazil, Canada and Nigeria. But unofficially, 80 per cent of the world's tantalum reserves are believed to be in Africa, and 80 per cent of those in Congo.
AUSTRALIA is a nice western nation.
Stop trolling. If it's not a troll, go take an economics class. Mod this drivel down.
It is possible that they are smarter than that, advertisers have it figured out.
I'll agree with you. I only know silica wave-guides. Dispersion is a huge problem (although mostly solved) in fiber.
Copper telephone wires have a THEORETICAL maximum bandwidth that has not changed. Simple physics. The bandwidth is X and the attenuation per meter is Y.
All the advances have been in Tx and Rx. They haven't been doping the copper etc. (AFAIK) to increase SNR.
So it depends what you call common knowledge. TX and Rx has gotten better, the copper has not.
Lithium Niobate Modulaters go at 20 Ghz ( I have one sitting in front of me in a box).
http://www.eospace.com/
Hell they even have a 40 Gb/s, but it isn't that good.
Anyway if you want to redirect the light beam you can use a lithium niobate polarization controller and have polarization dependent componets at the output that only let certain states of light through (and attenuate the rest) and thus you are redirecting the beam down a different waveguide in the ps range.
I am sure there are easier ways. But it is saturday morning....
There was a market for this thing, it spread like wild fire. It's too bad that no one made a better spec and program (the author aludes that there was planty of time to do this). yenc meets the "GOOD ENOUGH" criteria, thus it will be used, shitty, non-robust standard or not.
I assume it woould be on Rogers. They will have GPRS nation-wide in all markets by the summer. It is in all major cities now. So I'm guessing this thing will work almost everywhere.
The American Dollar is overvalued. That is a fact. The Economist harps on about it every week.
This would not matter if America didn't trade with any other countries and were there own little island.
The Dollar will drop soon though, it is not sustainable.
The UK is not in a recession.
The US (and NA, Japan, most of the EU, etc) all are in a recession.
I would guess CD sales are 80% a function of how much disposible income someone has and 20% a function of file shring and other things.....
The English versions will just be pirated over IRC, etc. There are little windows tools to turn the English in programs into Chinese (or any other language). So withdrawing from the market will not really kill priacy. It is only worth withdrawing if your not making money (obviously).