So why are ISP's asking Google for more money, when QOS has very little to do with retrieving search results? Because telcos are greedy bastards who will do anything to exploit their natural monopoly?
Why does VoIP run at bitrates very close to modem speeds, but require broadband connections? Because the extra headroom is usually enough to provide sufficiently reliable service.
Why is it that ISP's can usually support VoIP just fine, until the point that they implement "QOS"? Maybe because it's not about quality?
But the missing info doesn't disappear, so there's no hurry. And I think it's probably a little less painful than checking every day and cleaning out vandalism, which people do already. And hopefully some people can write some tools that make it a little less painful.
It's a wiki though, so history is always there. If articles go downhill, ambitious editors can at any time revive good pieces of text that have been deleted or made significantly worse.
It does say though that "Heller was under contract as a word processor at Jones Day" "which represented Diebold at the time". It doesn't say whether it's known whether Heller could have feasibly run across the documents as a normal part of his job, or whether he would have had to intentionally seek them out.
I wouldn't call running across documents in the course of one's job "breaking and entering". On the other hand, he DID disclose information that was part of attorney-client privilege, so that part is a bit iffy.
Well, most HD-DVD consumers would want HD, not DVD (otherwise, what's the point of the discussion, of killing Blu-Ray? Blu-Ray and downloadable DVD are non-overlapping market niches).
Also, even if ISP's can offer peak download speeds, it doesn't mean that they're ready for the market to switch to everyone downloading their video content. eg. cable modems in particular share their last-mile bandwidth limits. And further upstream, ISP's aren't necessarily prepared for a 10x jump in bandwidth consumption.
Disc-based content distribution almost certainly won't die in the next... three years. Network download speeds are way too low, especially if one considers the average connection speed of all consumers, eg. red states too (eg. the content market isn't going to universally ditch physical media if 25% of the market is unable to use anything but physical media).
In the bandwidth/datacasting game, it's the DSL, cable, (and possibly satellite TV) companies who control everything right now. If/when bandwidth becomes universally cheaper and available, then Microsoft might have a chance at controlling that market, but you can bet the existing last-mile companies will do everything they can to try to control the market before then.
Sony HAS to eat some part of that cost, consumers won't pay $800-900 for a console (which is only fair, since Sony is the one making the blunder). Also, most people who have an HD set right now are somewhat early adopters (eg. something like 6% of deployed TVs are HD now) and more likely to buy players no matter what, and hopefully within a year or two, many players will support both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. I think the only positive outcome is for DVD-Peter or DVD-Olaf to break the new encyrption. I know I won't be able to stand the fast-forward locking and various other "features" even on non-pirated discs for very long.
Umm, if the means of production is completely in the hands of robots, there's no reason not to radically restructure the economy and go to something more like socialism, because there's no reason for humans to be forced to consistently generate productive output. Personally, if someone told me I was allowed to spend my whole time studying physics or math or producing silly flash animations, I'd be overjoyed.
Nobody in their right mind would buy a $300 XBox 360. At a bare minimum, you have to fork over another $40 for the memory card, but you're still far from the functionality provided by the $400 version of the console. In the end, the $400 version of the 360 turns out to be cheaper for like 90% of users.
Can you give a URL that states that DIY systems won't be trusted to output HDCP content? While it's a possibility, I hadn't heard that there was any solid evidence for this.
Same way the LCD TopGun does, I believe: there's an extra sensor-bar that needs to be placed beside the TV.
This page specifically says "[The controller] interacts with a sensor bar placed above, below, or near televisions. The bar contains two sensors that communicate with the controller using Bluetooth technology."
Well, weather balloons are only meant for initial testing phases of the robots and ribbons and such. Also, weather balloons can go ~21 miles up. While that's significantly less than the total 62,000 miles, 21 miles still provides significant challenges for current technology to overcome.
Umm, which is worse for kids, sex (consensual, mutually beneficial) or violence (beating/stabbing/shooting)? Okay, the sex is hinted at in the game, not real, though the real-world sex workers are real. And the violence is simulated, so it's not apples-to-apples.
But still, if it comes down to consensual sex versus beating/killing people, I'd think that the sex would be less harmful to children.
and make a robot to move back and forth along the string...
and shoot laser beams out of your head that powers the robot...
and have safety procedures in place in case the string breaks, and the robot comes plummeting towards your head...
and have the multinational population living on the surface of your head come to some agreement about who's going to finance, maintain, and operate the thing...
There isn't really a project underway for anyone to be fired from. Currently it's just investment by small companies in hopes that 1) the expertise and any new developments will be commercially useful now (or at least patentable, I guess), and 2) if a company starts now, and becomes an industry leader (eg. once/if the industry gets going), then they'll be much more likely to be dominant in their field and make bigger profits later.
We don't know if it's practical yet, but there are scientists and companies who are willing to work on it to figure that out, and that's a good thing.
Considering that rocket launches can be delayed for several days due to bad weather, and have a 1+ year lead-time, just shipping your project to the launch site probably takes several days at the very least (and for smaller cargo, means shipping it to Russia, and shipping high-tech gear across borders can take time), and that most space projects are currently planned several years ahead of time (besides the significant difference in launch cost, obviously), it doesn't really matter if it takes a day or three to get your object to space with a space elevator. Yeah, rocket launches will still be used for strategic nuclear war, but that doesn't mean that a space elevator doesn't have significant upsides of its own.
Space elevator ribbons can be designed so they break up on re-entry, decreasing the amount of force a ribbon could put on anything. (there are still possible environmental problems, and remotely possible health problems, but it shouldn't have a great chance of directly immediately hurting humans)
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Oh wait, weren't we supposed to be talking about something else? I recall something about blue disks...?
Why does VoIP run at bitrates very close to modem speeds, but require broadband connections? Because the extra headroom is usually enough to provide sufficiently reliable service.
Why is it that ISP's can usually support VoIP just fine, until the point that they implement "QOS"? Maybe because it's not about quality?
But the missing info doesn't disappear, so there's no hurry. And I think it's probably a little less painful than checking every day and cleaning out vandalism, which people do already. And hopefully some people can write some tools that make it a little less painful.
It's a wiki though, so history is always there. If articles go downhill, ambitious editors can at any time revive good pieces of text that have been deleted or made significantly worse.
When you said "exercise joystick", the first thing that popped into my head was animal husbandry. *shiver*
It does say though that "Heller was under contract as a word processor at Jones Day" "which represented Diebold at the time". It doesn't say whether it's known whether Heller could have feasibly run across the documents as a normal part of his job, or whether he would have had to intentionally seek them out.
I wouldn't call running across documents in the course of one's job "breaking and entering". On the other hand, he DID disclose information that was part of attorney-client privilege, so that part is a bit iffy.
Also, even if ISP's can offer peak download speeds, it doesn't mean that they're ready for the market to switch to everyone downloading their video content. eg. cable modems in particular share their last-mile bandwidth limits. And further upstream, ISP's aren't necessarily prepared for a 10x jump in bandwidth consumption.
In the bandwidth/datacasting game, it's the DSL, cable, (and possibly satellite TV) companies who control everything right now. If/when bandwidth becomes universally cheaper and available, then Microsoft might have a chance at controlling that market, but you can bet the existing last-mile companies will do everything they can to try to control the market before then.
Sony HAS to eat some part of that cost, consumers won't pay $800-900 for a console (which is only fair, since Sony is the one making the blunder). Also, most people who have an HD set right now are somewhat early adopters (eg. something like 6% of deployed TVs are HD now) and more likely to buy players no matter what, and hopefully within a year or two, many players will support both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. I think the only positive outcome is for DVD-Peter or DVD-Olaf to break the new encyrption. I know I won't be able to stand the fast-forward locking and various other "features" even on non-pirated discs for very long.
Umm, if the means of production is completely in the hands of robots, there's no reason not to radically restructure the economy and go to something more like socialism, because there's no reason for humans to be forced to consistently generate productive output. Personally, if someone told me I was allowed to spend my whole time studying physics or math or producing silly flash animations, I'd be overjoyed.
That's true, the unit does support USB mass storage drives, so that may well be a solution for running linux on the lower-cost unit.
... and if you run Linux, you'd be insane to get the one without a hard drive, so you'll want the higher priced version.
Nobody in their right mind would buy a $300 XBox 360. At a bare minimum, you have to fork over another $40 for the memory card, but you're still far from the functionality provided by the $400 version of the console. In the end, the $400 version of the 360 turns out to be cheaper for like 90% of users.
How many hours of audio books can you get for $84 though?
Can you give a URL that states that DIY systems won't be trusted to output HDCP content? While it's a possibility, I hadn't heard that there was any solid evidence for this.
Mmm, today is Sep 4552, 1993.
This page specifically says "[The controller] interacts with a sensor bar placed above, below, or near televisions. The bar contains two sensors that communicate with the controller using Bluetooth technology."
Well, weather balloons are only meant for initial testing phases of the robots and ribbons and such. Also, weather balloons can go ~21 miles up. While that's significantly less than the total 62,000 miles, 21 miles still provides significant challenges for current technology to overcome.
But still, if it comes down to consensual sex versus beating/killing people, I'd think that the sex would be less harmful to children.
The company (liftport) has some pictures and videos on their site.
and shoot laser beams out of your head that powers the robot...
and have safety procedures in place in case the string breaks, and the robot comes plummeting towards your head...
and have the multinational population living on the surface of your head come to some agreement about who's going to finance, maintain, and operate the thing...
We don't know if it's practical yet, but there are scientists and companies who are willing to work on it to figure that out, and that's a good thing.
Considering that rocket launches can be delayed for several days due to bad weather, and have a 1+ year lead-time, just shipping your project to the launch site probably takes several days at the very least (and for smaller cargo, means shipping it to Russia, and shipping high-tech gear across borders can take time), and that most space projects are currently planned several years ahead of time (besides the significant difference in launch cost, obviously), it doesn't really matter if it takes a day or three to get your object to space with a space elevator. Yeah, rocket launches will still be used for strategic nuclear war, but that doesn't mean that a space elevator doesn't have significant upsides of its own.
Space elevator ribbons can be designed so they break up on re-entry, decreasing the amount of force a ribbon could put on anything. (there are still possible environmental problems, and remotely possible health problems, but it shouldn't have a great chance of directly immediately hurting humans)