That almost sounds intelligent. Except for the glaring omission that is this: It still means putting lots of wire out to the uplink antenna. 200 passengers will require what, 6-8 strategically placed APs, if not more? You'll need wire for those too, and back to a central switch router, that finally goes out to the wing antennas (or where ever the damn things are).
They're already putting wire all over the place. Why not put a little bit more, and eliminate one more bottleneck?
I have a wireless card. With some level of certainty, I have more variety of wireless protocols in my own home than you even realize exist. (Proxim 900mhz for my newton, 802.11b for my laptop, 802.11a for the hell of it, bluetooth)
I just get tired of hearing some PHB talk about how they should really get wireless for the new office, and save $4000 in running cable. Yeh, sure sir, that old hand-me-down access point will support 90 desktop machines. Behind the steel columns every 20ft in the cube farm.
Wait a sec, are you in management?
PS If you think that you'ree ticket prices can possibly stay low, or that the cost of a few 10s of miles of cat5 amortized over 15 years will make the difference between affordable fares and expensive....
Do your ass cheeks move when you talk, or is that an optical illusion?
You can't go get the $30 Dlinks on sale at walmart. You'll want a commercial-grade router, Cisco Aironets or similar. So, That puts you in the several thousand dollars range. Not to mention that you're still talking major installation for the wiring to the uplink antennas, they put those in the wings, right?
Not to mention, that the seats are generally designed for wiring of some sort in mind... the headphones, or lights, whatever. The cost of the cat5 itself is neglible, especially on the scale of an airline industry, the cost is for the installers, and guess what, you've already hired them.
Well, in the Airbus I flew in last time, they had foldout LCD screens. I suppose they were wireless.
And um. Maybe, you wait until the thing needs scheduled maintenance, and will already be grounded, to do the work.
For gum, I'd imagine the same inspection they do to make sure you didn't vandalize the seat at the end of the flight, and an automatic $500 damage deduction from your credit card (haha, suppose you pay cash, right?) would be enough.
26,000 miles one way, makes for a round trip distance of 52,000 miles. Compare that to 26 miles round trip, and you have 1/2000th of whatever portion of the lag is due to sol. Figure that of 1000ms, 950 of that is sol, and 50ms is hardware switching on the ground, backbone access times, etc. So, this will be comparable to any other lower-end broadband... DSL, cable, etc.
Think about it. The RIAA has BayTSP on retainer, as does the MPAA and SBA. How much do each pay BayTSP per year, $150,000 ? $200,000 ?
So, that's $600,000 right there, and doesn't take into account all the other smaller companies that contract to BayTSP. If they spend half on those accounts, that might be a nice business model. Especially since they'd not have to show a profit right away... this is the kind of business that big investors love.
And I might even be lowballing the fees they pay, remember, they claim losses of millions of dollars every year. If they actually believe those numbers, they'd be willing to spend a large fraction of the difference.
Yeh, and companies like BayTSP don't have literally hundreds of consumer-level dialup, DSL and cable accounts all ganged together, searching for this stuff.
Those people hiding jews in their crawlspaces, wanting to sit at the front of the bus, and who can forget those miscreants who continue to publish slanderous lies about the chinese government.
can't home serve due to lack of NAT traversal Isn't that a transport layer issue?
Agreed. can't serving large files is suicide because of lack of swarming Isn't that a Phat Pipe issue?
Rather elitist. Strange that a network originally meant to be decentralized is now so dependent on seperating it into big pipes and "economy class".
no way to differentially update content or inform the user of updates Heard of HTTP code 304 - Not Modified? Servers and browsers already know how to use it, and they do it transparently to the user. And maybe you should consider putting a "last modified" timestamp on your web page, to help stop clueless/hopeful people from overriding their browser and downloading something they arleady have.
Well, it may be true that 304 is the first step in one the original poster suggests... but think about this. If the webpage is 1 meg in size, and he's only changing 2k worth of bits here and there, wouldnt it be better to send a difference file? How to implement it might be a challenge, but it seems like it would be a useful tool.
Nothing beats a cuecat for cheap barcode scanners. PS2 and USB are available, and no stupid driver funkiness.
Also consider a scanner tasked only to scan receipts. I've been considering something myself, perhaps a small business card scanner would work. As you're putting away the groceries, stick the receipt in there, and a custom script files, OCRs, whatevers it. Maybe also noting the day and time. It could automatically pop up a warning on day 8 that "If the half gallon of milk isn't finished today, it may be time to finish it off or toss it." or somesuch. Or even auto-generate the grocery list as it decides the items are gone, or spoiled.
And as much as I hate RFID, you gotta admit, for at least this one application, it would be cool.
- need to be able to block out the most noxious sites. For some reason, teenage girls can't seem to resist downloading crapware if it calls itself "PicOfGoodCharlotte.exe" or something similar...
This is easy. Install linux, put mozilla on it with maybe the flash plugin if you're feeling generous.
They'll use a combination of the carrot *and* the stick, to force Penn State to behave itself. This may include any or all of the following: cutting the IT dept a sweetheart deal on OS/devsoftware/office licensing, donating money for new buildings, donating new machines to computer labs, threatening a license audit, threatening to sue over software piracy, threatening to sue over patents owned by Penn State, withdrawing pledged donations, Pennsylvania lobbyists dicking with Penn State's budget and possibly even lowkey extortion of trustees and deans.
They'll keep applying more of said tactics, until Penn State publically withdraws this policy.
Yeh, we'd all have to pay for television then. Large satellite companies would end up witht 20 million subscribers, and cable tv companies would have even more!
They'd end up creating hundreds of premium channels, that aren't restricted by FCC obscenity regulations.
in a culture where people believe the poor should be punished
I agree that there is some of this, maybe even a lot. That's why I see something like this being accepted. I mean, we have enough of a workforce, and enough natural resources to put everyone in our nation in a real house. Not one made of cardboard, or the 1x3's that pass for studs in double-wides, etc etc etc.
So, that being the case, why do those sorts of "homes" exist? Mostly to punish poor people. Maybe there is another angle on it, homes being considered a large chunk of latent wealth, and you certainly don't want the unwashed masses having anything but a fraction of the total wealth.
While I don't expect the clouds to part, and all contrary forces to magically evaporate, there has never been any lasting resistance to "cheaper" housing.
Now, when I use the word "cheaper", I use it only in quality sense itself, and not in the monetary sense. Trailers, pre-fab "double wides", ghetto tenaments... we've never had a shortage of them. Whether it is the goal of a conspiracy, or only a side effect, that's anyone's guess.
Now, if they were making magical 1" blue cubes, that instantly erected a marvelous 12,000 sq ft mansions, well, I think I could agree with you that the "powers that be" would put the hurt on it immediately.
The urge to reproduce is not the dominant force that it once was. 100 years ago, a 30 year old without children was uncommon, if not rare. I know quite a few by myself. Also, when I was in school, for their stupid health course, homosexuality was supposed to be a rather constant 3% of the population at large. Why do I keep reading about percentages way above that, 5s and 7s and even 9s?
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sol = speed of light... supposedly the limiting factor in a geosync qpsk satellite beam.
That almost sounds intelligent. Except for the glaring omission that is this: It still means putting lots of wire out to the uplink antenna. 200 passengers will require what, 6-8 strategically placed APs, if not more? You'll need wire for those too, and back to a central switch router, that finally goes out to the wing antennas (or where ever the damn things are).
They're already putting wire all over the place. Why not put a little bit more, and eliminate one more bottleneck?
I have a wireless card. With some level of certainty, I have more variety of wireless protocols in my own home than you even realize exist. (Proxim 900mhz for my newton, 802.11b for my laptop, 802.11a for the hell of it, bluetooth)
I just get tired of hearing some PHB talk about how they should really get wireless for the new office, and save $4000 in running cable. Yeh, sure sir, that old hand-me-down access point will support 90 desktop machines. Behind the steel columns every 20ft in the cube farm.
Wait a sec, are you in management?
PS If you think that you'ree ticket prices can possibly stay low, or that the cost of a few 10s of miles of cat5 amortized over 15 years will make the difference between affordable fares and expensive....
Do your ass cheeks move when you talk, or is that an optical illusion?
You can't go get the $30 Dlinks on sale at walmart. You'll want a commercial-grade router, Cisco Aironets or similar. So, That puts you in the several thousand dollars range. Not to mention that you're still talking major installation for the wiring to the uplink antennas, they put those in the wings, right?
Not to mention, that the seats are generally designed for wiring of some sort in mind... the headphones, or lights, whatever. The cost of the cat5 itself is neglible, especially on the scale of an airline industry, the cost is for the installers, and guess what, you've already hired them.
Well, in the Airbus I flew in last time, they had foldout LCD screens. I suppose they were wireless.
And um. Maybe, you wait until the thing needs scheduled maintenance, and will already be grounded, to do the work.
For gum, I'd imagine the same inspection they do to make sure you didn't vandalize the seat at the end of the flight, and an automatic $500 damage deduction from your credit card (haha, suppose you pay cash, right?) would be enough.
Why not put a fucking cat5 jack in the back of every seat?
Utterly dumb shit.
26,000 miles one way, makes for a round trip distance of 52,000 miles. Compare that to 26 miles round trip, and you have 1/2000th of whatever portion of the lag is due to sol. Figure that of 1000ms, 950 of that is sol, and 50ms is hardware switching on the ground, backbone access times, etc. So, this will be comparable to any other lower-end broadband... DSL, cable, etc.
It oughtta be nice.
11 bytes of x86 assembly, beat that you l0s3rs!
A few. The network is over a year old, and functional. I've even heard rumors of other metanets out there.
Think about it. The RIAA has BayTSP on retainer, as does the MPAA and SBA. How much do each pay BayTSP per year, $150,000 ? $200,000 ?
So, that's $600,000 right there, and doesn't take into account all the other smaller companies that contract to BayTSP. If they spend half on those accounts, that might be a nice business model. Especially since they'd not have to show a profit right away... this is the kind of business that big investors love.
And I might even be lowballing the fees they pay, remember, they claim losses of millions of dollars every year. If they actually believe those numbers, they'd be willing to spend a large fraction of the difference.
Yeh, I remember them as far back as 1998. Maybe one every other year since?
Yeh, and companies like BayTSP don't have literally hundreds of consumer-level dialup, DSL and cable accounts all ganged together, searching for this stuff.
Yes, it is never right to break any law.
Those people hiding jews in their crawlspaces, wanting to sit at the front of the bus, and who can forget those miscreants who continue to publish slanderous lies about the chinese government.
The year is 2678, and I am using the greatest invention of the millenium to post to slashdot from the future!
HAHAHA!
And I *still* can only get a damn ~500,000 uid. Must be something with slashdot.org rejecting my 512bit IPv19 address...
That's easy though, any user smart enough to figure that out, is smart enough to remove it if it's an issue, not to mention they would deserve it.
In a corporate environment, you'd at most see 1 in 200 people who might try that.
can't home serve due to lack of NAT traversal
Isn't that a transport layer issue?
Agreed.
can't serving large files is suicide because of lack of swarming
Isn't that a Phat Pipe issue?
Rather elitist. Strange that a network originally meant to be decentralized is now so dependent on seperating it into big pipes and "economy class".
no way to differentially update content or inform the user of updates
Heard of HTTP code 304 - Not Modified? Servers and browsers already know how to use it, and they do it transparently to the user. And maybe you should consider putting a "last modified" timestamp on your web page, to help stop clueless/hopeful people from overriding their browser and downloading something they arleady have.
Well, it may be true that 304 is the first step in one the original poster suggests... but think about this. If the webpage is 1 meg in size, and he's only changing 2k worth of bits here and there, wouldnt it be better to send a difference file? How to implement it might be a challenge, but it seems like it would be a useful tool.
Nothing beats a cuecat for cheap barcode scanners. PS2 and USB are available, and no stupid driver funkiness.
Also consider a scanner tasked only to scan receipts. I've been considering something myself, perhaps a small business card scanner would work. As you're putting away the groceries, stick the receipt in there, and a custom script files, OCRs, whatevers it. Maybe also noting the day and time. It could automatically pop up a warning on day 8 that "If the half gallon of milk isn't finished today, it may be time to finish it off or toss it." or somesuch. Or even auto-generate the grocery list as it decides the items are gone, or spoiled.
And as much as I hate RFID, you gotta admit, for at least this one application, it would be cool.
Haha. That part is my sig. But if he gets bored after fixing the computers for his nieces...
- need to be able to block out the most noxious sites. For some reason, teenage girls can't seem to resist downloading crapware if it calls itself "PicOfGoodCharlotte.exe" or something similar...
This is easy. Install linux, put mozilla on it with maybe the flash plugin if you're feeling generous.
That's easy.
They'll use a combination of the carrot *and* the stick, to force Penn State to behave itself. This may include any or all of the following: cutting the IT dept a sweetheart deal on OS/devsoftware/office licensing, donating money for new buildings, donating new machines to computer labs, threatening a license audit, threatening to sue over software piracy, threatening to sue over patents owned by Penn State, withdrawing pledged donations, Pennsylvania lobbyists dicking with Penn State's budget and possibly even lowkey extortion of trustees and deans.
They'll keep applying more of said tactics, until Penn State publically withdraws this policy.
Duh.
Some peers are more equal than others.
Yeh, especially since they can't write a script that will generate 12 million pgp keys, using each to sign only 4 or 5 spams, before discarding it.
Thank god there aren't PCI cards that offload crypto.
Yeh, we'd all have to pay for television then. Large satellite companies would end up witht 20 million subscribers, and cable tv companies would have even more!
They'd end up creating hundreds of premium channels, that aren't restricted by FCC obscenity regulations.
Uh. Tell me, why do we still have advertising?
in a culture where people believe the poor should be punished
I agree that there is some of this, maybe even a lot. That's why I see something like this being accepted. I mean, we have enough of a workforce, and enough natural resources to put everyone in our nation in a real house. Not one made of cardboard, or the 1x3's that pass for studs in double-wides, etc etc etc.
So, that being the case, why do those sorts of "homes" exist? Mostly to punish poor people. Maybe there is another angle on it, homes being considered a large chunk of latent wealth, and you certainly don't want the unwashed masses having anything but a fraction of the total wealth.
While I don't expect the clouds to part, and all contrary forces to magically evaporate, there has never been any lasting resistance to "cheaper" housing.
Now, when I use the word "cheaper", I use it only in quality sense itself, and not in the monetary sense. Trailers, pre-fab "double wides", ghetto tenaments... we've never had a shortage of them. Whether it is the goal of a conspiracy, or only a side effect, that's anyone's guess.
Now, if they were making magical 1" blue cubes, that instantly erected a marvelous 12,000 sq ft mansions, well, I think I could agree with you that the "powers that be" would put the hurt on it immediately.
The urge to reproduce is not the dominant force that it once was. 100 years ago, a 30 year old without children was uncommon, if not rare. I know quite a few by myself. Also, when I was in school, for their stupid health course, homosexuality was supposed to be a rather constant 3% of the population at large. Why do I keep reading about percentages way above that, 5s and 7s and even 9s?