Depends on the type of repeater. If its a dumb repeater (invisible to the software layer) it can be made to repeat much faster than something like a router, that must interpret the data, process it, pack it, and ship it back out.
The traffic analogy exists. If there are no cars in front of you, you can go as fast as your car and the law will allow. IF there's a car in front of you, a single car, your speed can only be lower than that. With each car ahead of you, it increases the chance that you'll be behind at least one soccer mom or Oldsmobile office worker..you know the types..the ones that do 15 below the limit and sway back and forth in their lane because they aren't paying full attention to the road?
In light, the transit isn't usually the problem. Point A to point B is fast and straightforward, assuming no impurities or fractures in the fiber. What gets complicated is when B needs to either route to C or D under certain conditions (data type, congestion level, etc). I think what this article is talking about is slowing down the light a bit to give the electronics time to catch up.
I seem to remember a news story a while back where a guy found out he was being tracked via GPS so he put his tracker on another car. It had its own power source and everything.
The police went to make their big drug bust and busted a family in a mini van, shotguns and pistols pointed at the car and all.
Being legally forced to wear a helmet means that there will probably be fewer people in ten year long comas costing the tax payers $50,000 a day to keep them alive, because they were just going to the store..they didn't think that 15mph could lead to a traumatic brain injury. Of course mama don't wanna kill her baby by taking him off life support, either.
Any culture that doesn't adapt is a culture that will die out. Just like in nature, if a species cannot adapt, it will die out.
AIDS knows no boundary within the human race. Africans, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, etc..everyone is vulnerable. We will either adapt, as a race and as humanity, or we will die out.
Some cultures don't want to adapt, so some cultures are in clear danger of being wiped out.
ANYTHING that affects your DNA can potentially cause cancer.
Be it DNA-altering viruses, cosmic rays, free oxygen radicals, heat, various subatomic particles, etc..
It usually takes a cascade of events to trigger cancer, however, as the body has developed several defense mechanisms against the formation of cancer. For example, if the cell senses that something is wrong with the DNA, it may suicide or stop multiplying. By default, they also have a hard limit on how many times they can multiply. Cancer happens when the cell doesn't suicide or stop multiplying; usually caused by damage to the cell's mitochondria or DNA.
Unfortunately most greedy managers sem unable to see past the bottom line of the next quarter.
Fixed that for you.
MOST of the time, what happens, is that the task of creating a call center comes down from up above, and is handed to a manager, or a manager is hired to head up the project. The manager evaluates his options, and is given a goal to meet. Rather than getting reasonably close to the goal, they decide to undercut the goal to make themselves look better. When they save the company an boatload of money, they're given bonuses, promoted, etc. Some companies automatically give bonuses if managers do well.
The problem is that the effects are not usually immediate and strong enough to stop the manager from being patted on the back and given bonuses/promoted/etc. Its the people down the road that have to deal with all the fallout, and the company is just that much weaker for outsourcing to India for half the cost.
Most CEOs are pretty savvy in the business world. You usually only hear about the ones that aren't.
This kind of thing happens in jobs everywhere. Why would the contractor use better quality materials on your house when they can use things they bought at half price? As long as they're gone it doesn't matter if it lasts. Why should the CEO make good decisions if they can just work for a year or two and then golden-parachute their ways to a few million? Why should your DVD player last for more than a year? The point is, they already have your money. Be it your money in the hands of a manufacturer of a cheap knockoff that lasted two weeks before dying, or be it the money of a company in the hands of some greedy asshole who doesn't give a damn about anything except for his own paycheck.
Clearly the channels had SOME capacity for information transfer.
There are plenty of reasons why people don't understand quantum mechanics. Most people just don't care.
But I can list plenty of better reasons, for example, Calbi-Yau space. If you imagine the rubber-sheet model of the universe that everyone has seen in physics, replace it with this instead. Its pretty accurate as far as the math goes, and is a spin-off of QM. And then there are all of the various thought experiments, like Schrödinger's cat.
Lets face it. Microsoft has a history of using underhanded and sometimes illegal tactics to out-compete their competitors. It would come as no surprise if it turned out Microsoft paid them to do this, but to be fair, there's no damning evidence that this has happened or even that it wasn't just a brainfart on the part of quality control.
If you want to see some underhanded tactics, take a look at the way Microsoft treats their vendors, or what Wal-Mart does to get you those low low prices. Both of these things have been verified and criticized. They're no longer speculation.
In a nut shell, there are several rings aside from the main one. These help spin particles up to the correct energy level before being injected into the main ring. Once in the main ring, clumps of whatever they're colliding will be taken around the ring and focused in certain areas to maximize chances that atoms collide. There are sensors in the ring to detect exactly what happens.
Trust me, you don't want a lead atom hitting you at 1000+ TeV.
So there's the shielding. Not to mention the magnets made to keep the packets of atoms on the same track.
Their main goal is to find the Higgs boson, as it is the only particle in the Standard Mode that hasn't been found. It supposedly has no mass; only force. If they can detect this boson, many questions will have new evidence to help answer them. Of course the answers aren't nearly as important as all the questions that we will have if it is proven to exist..
"Hey Mr. Public School, if you don't implement this plan, then we'll cut your funding. This will mean your rates must skyrocket to cover the difference as well as inflation, and that you'll lose tons of students. So we suggest you go ahead and make some deals. And for every student you don't turn in, someone on campus gets their kneecaps broken."
"If I pay money and walk into a clearly marked XXX movie theater, should I be able to sue them because I was offended by raunchy sex scenes?"
Perhaps you should try it. Might be some money to be had. Some people would call you a douchebag at first, but the rest of us would realize that you're just helping to fix the system.
Repairing fiber is very, very expensive. They'll have to come up with an easy way of replacing the fiber if it gets damaged, or most people won't want to pay thousands to replace it when they break it. Replacing fiber is quite a bit cheaper, the hardest part is just getting the fiber into its armor and running the armored cable. Since we're not talking about OC48-grade connections, one or two strands in a thin shell would suffice.
This is just a cash grab from some people that may or may not be justified in causing a stink that Google trespassed on their private property. At most, they'd have to remove the offending images, which they have done. This family, however, wants a truckload of money for the trouble they've went through.
Someone illegally setting foot on your land, even if its marked, does not entitle you to a truckload of money.
It doesn't even entitle you to invoke self-defense laws unless you have damn good reason to believe you're in danger.
Actually, it could easily be challenged in court. AT&T wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on as far as the early termination fee is concerned. They're basically saying that if they want to cancel your contact, then you must pay them. There's a certain feature about contract law that says that contracts can NOT be totally one sided like this. There's no cost for AT&T to recoup here. The point is you're using up too much in the way of resources on their very limited 3G network, so they cut you off..that's their advantage. You're no longer abusing their network.
They want to have their cake and eat it too, I'd take their asses to court in a heartbeat over this. I can understand the equipment thing, if for example you buy your $500 iPhone for $99 with the intention of a contract, where AT&T would recoup its losses for the iPhone. They should have to pay YOU for the early termination fee, however.
I have a theory that most cops start off as generally good cops.
Then, over time, they become dangerous and paranoid through a combination of near-death experiences, seeing absolutely horrible things (meth lab in baby's room, seven year old addicted to crack, etc), and peer pressure from the already hardened vets that they're placed with to help train them.
Add to this a zeal to uphold Justice (no matter how distorted it is in their mind) and their newly-expanded survival instinct..you have a recipe for disaster. You have an individual that is strongly motivated to use their appointed legal powers to do things like stereotype, profile, smash cameras, taze people that are behaving oddly, etc. Most of the time, they do things and then ask questions later.
Something must be done. I'm for mandatory psych evaluations every few years myself.
Ten dollars always sounded way too good to be true. Most likely, it was a napkin calculation that went public.
Its probably happened to a lot of companies, nothing to be ashamed of.
Employee A chats with Supervisor A at a bar or company event involving alcohol. Employee A says that he doesn't know why the laptops they bought cost so much, hell, he could put one together for ten dollars! One dollar for the casing and structure, two dollars for the battery and screen, three dollars for the 'innards, and four dollars for shipping and handling! How did these laptops cost us $400USD each?
Supervisor A, being sneaky, goes to Manager A. Who goes to Higher-Up A. Higher-Ups B and C approve, and get the gears working. Story is picked up and released. Higher-Ups A, B, and C, talk to their engineering department. They are promptly laughed at, between bites of curry.
You can actually seriously injure your kidneys doing squats if you aren't used to them. Basically, the muscles aren't strong enough and tear more than they should. The torn muscles release toxic byproducts into the blood, which the kidneys filter out. If there's too many, they clog the kidneys and cause rapid kidney failure. Without emergency treatment, possibly a kidney transplant, you'll die. Rhabdomyolysis is the name of it..people have died from it in the past. It happens more with thigh muscle exercises.
Fuck paying DVD prices for a crappy quality movie you can't burn to your own DVD. You get no packaging, no extra materials, no DVD, nothing except for the movie file itself. All for the same price. Wal-Mart is a few minutes down the road and if I catch them on a sale, the WM version can be cheaper than the online version!
If the download version were quite a bit cheaper than the real version, hell, I'd do that before I bought the movie most likely.
The Chinese government is very protective of the profitability of their companies. If you were to circumvent this, I'd almost expect to disappear in the middle of the night and be subjected to some harsh questioning. The stakes are a little higher when they lose thousands and thousands of what they consider to be their money when you share your neighbor's DSL. As opposed to the US, where you'd be depriving a company of $40-60 for decent DSL service.
Not worth the risk in my opinion.
Another scenario, what if they were arrested and charged with theft? That's a pretty harsh crime there, especially for something as expensive as that DSL. That reporter would be going to jail for a long, long time, and the US wouldn't bail them out.
Then they'll decide that if we really want access to the internet outside of the good old US of A, we'll need to get passports and to keep logs of what we do. ISPs will tack on the extra costs associated with monitoring/tracking/peering/etc to the bills of their customers, to be paid back within two months..but we all know they'd be there to stay.
Sites like liveleak would be shut down, and all of the 'good' sites would move to other countries.
Pirates and IP thieves alike would find themselves beside pot smokers doing ten years in the pen, while the murderers and rapists don't get justice served for longer and longer amounts of time -- they don't make the government any money.
Whats a bigger slap in the face than creating something complex like that to have it taken right out of your hands by people who can't even begin to appreciate its complexity and efficiency?
Having it taken right out of your hands, broken, and having the finger pointed at you. If you've seen some of the fake-IT people that have degrees, you'd know what I'm talking about. Delete the backup to save space! Uhoh, recover from the backup! Hey, where's the personnel files lol!
Do you trust your power company that much to provide clean power to you?
The power company provides power that's almost perfect when it comes out of the plans, in theory. However, there's a lot of line equipment between the generators and the consumers. Miles and miles and miles of copper in the form of lines, bus bars, transformers, etc. There's almost no way for them to clean up the power before it reaches your house other than making every single transformer a power regulator as well.
Sexually responsible? Quite a few ADULTS never reach this stage. Its actually easier to teach children and teenagers why safe sex is important and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Normally I'd say when they're informed enough to make a decision, they should go for it, but the United States absolutely HATES personal responsibility.
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Depends on the type of repeater. If its a dumb repeater (invisible to the software layer) it can be made to repeat much faster than something like a router, that must interpret the data, process it, pack it, and ship it back out.
The traffic analogy exists. If there are no cars in front of you, you can go as fast as your car and the law will allow. IF there's a car in front of you, a single car, your speed can only be lower than that. With each car ahead of you, it increases the chance that you'll be behind at least one soccer mom or Oldsmobile office worker..you know the types..the ones that do 15 below the limit and sway back and forth in their lane because they aren't paying full attention to the road?
In light, the transit isn't usually the problem. Point A to point B is fast and straightforward, assuming no impurities or fractures in the fiber. What gets complicated is when B needs to either route to C or D under certain conditions (data type, congestion level, etc). I think what this article is talking about is slowing down the light a bit to give the electronics time to catch up.
I seem to remember a news story a while back where a guy found out he was being tracked via GPS so he put his tracker on another car. It had its own power source and everything.
The police went to make their big drug bust and busted a family in a mini van, shotguns and pistols pointed at the car and all.
It was a few years ago.
Being legally forced to wear a helmet means that there will probably be fewer people in ten year long comas costing the tax payers $50,000 a day to keep them alive, because they were just going to the store..they didn't think that 15mph could lead to a traumatic brain injury. Of course mama don't wanna kill her baby by taking him off life support, either.
Any culture that doesn't adapt is a culture that will die out. Just like in nature, if a species cannot adapt, it will die out.
AIDS knows no boundary within the human race. Africans, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, etc..everyone is vulnerable. We will either adapt, as a race and as humanity, or we will die out.
Some cultures don't want to adapt, so some cultures are in clear danger of being wiped out.
ANYTHING that affects your DNA can potentially cause cancer.
Be it DNA-altering viruses, cosmic rays, free oxygen radicals, heat, various subatomic particles, etc..
It usually takes a cascade of events to trigger cancer, however, as the body has developed several defense mechanisms against the formation of cancer. For example, if the cell senses that something is wrong with the DNA, it may suicide or stop multiplying. By default, they also have a hard limit on how many times they can multiply. Cancer happens when the cell doesn't suicide or stop multiplying; usually caused by damage to the cell's mitochondria or DNA.
Unfortunately most greedy managers sem unable to see past the bottom line of the next quarter.
Fixed that for you.
MOST of the time, what happens, is that the task of creating a call center comes down from up above, and is handed to a manager, or a manager is hired to head up the project. The manager evaluates his options, and is given a goal to meet. Rather than getting reasonably close to the goal, they decide to undercut the goal to make themselves look better. When they save the company an boatload of money, they're given bonuses, promoted, etc. Some companies automatically give bonuses if managers do well.
The problem is that the effects are not usually immediate and strong enough to stop the manager from being patted on the back and given bonuses/promoted/etc. Its the people down the road that have to deal with all the fallout, and the company is just that much weaker for outsourcing to India for half the cost.
Most CEOs are pretty savvy in the business world. You usually only hear about the ones that aren't.
This kind of thing happens in jobs everywhere. Why would the contractor use better quality materials on your house when they can use things they bought at half price? As long as they're gone it doesn't matter if it lasts. Why should the CEO make good decisions if they can just work for a year or two and then golden-parachute their ways to a few million? Why should your DVD player last for more than a year? The point is, they already have your money. Be it your money in the hands of a manufacturer of a cheap knockoff that lasted two weeks before dying, or be it the money of a company in the hands of some greedy asshole who doesn't give a damn about anything except for his own paycheck.
Its your civic duty to let him know that the upscaling on the PS3 for DVDs surpasses his Denon. And it can be upgraded in the future, with software.
Clearly the channels had SOME capacity for information transfer.
There are plenty of reasons why people don't understand quantum mechanics. Most people just don't care.
But I can list plenty of better reasons, for example, Calbi-Yau space. If you imagine the rubber-sheet model of the universe that everyone has seen in physics, replace it with this instead. Its pretty accurate as far as the math goes, and is a spin-off of QM. And then there are all of the various thought experiments, like Schrödinger's cat.
Can you tell that I'm an aspiring physics major?
Lets face it. Microsoft has a history of using underhanded and sometimes illegal tactics to out-compete their competitors. It would come as no surprise if it turned out Microsoft paid them to do this, but to be fair, there's no damning evidence that this has happened or even that it wasn't just a brainfart on the part of quality control.
If you want to see some underhanded tactics, take a look at the way Microsoft treats their vendors, or what Wal-Mart does to get you those low low prices. Both of these things have been verified and criticized. They're no longer speculation.
In a nut shell, there are several rings aside from the main one. These help spin particles up to the correct energy level before being injected into the main ring. Once in the main ring, clumps of whatever they're colliding will be taken around the ring and focused in certain areas to maximize chances that atoms collide. There are sensors in the ring to detect exactly what happens.
Trust me, you don't want a lead atom hitting you at 1000+ TeV.
So there's the shielding. Not to mention the magnets made to keep the packets of atoms on the same track.
Their main goal is to find the Higgs boson, as it is the only particle in the Standard Mode that hasn't been found. It supposedly has no mass; only force. If they can detect this boson, many questions will have new evidence to help answer them. Of course the answers aren't nearly as important as all the questions that we will have if it is proven to exist..
Its more like:
"Hey Mr. Public School, if you don't implement this plan, then we'll cut your funding. This will mean your rates must skyrocket to cover the difference as well as inflation, and that you'll lose tons of students. So we suggest you go ahead and make some deals. And for every student you don't turn in, someone on campus gets their kneecaps broken."
"If I pay money and walk into a clearly marked XXX movie theater, should I be able to sue them because I was offended by raunchy sex scenes?"
Perhaps you should try it. Might be some money to be had. Some people would call you a douchebag at first, but the rest of us would realize that you're just helping to fix the system.
Well..
Repairing fiber is very, very expensive. They'll have to come up with an easy way of replacing the fiber if it gets damaged, or most people won't want to pay thousands to replace it when they break it. Replacing fiber is quite a bit cheaper, the hardest part is just getting the fiber into its armor and running the armored cable. Since we're not talking about OC48-grade connections, one or two strands in a thin shell would suffice.
This is just a cash grab from some people that may or may not be justified in causing a stink that Google trespassed on their private property. At most, they'd have to remove the offending images, which they have done. This family, however, wants a truckload of money for the trouble they've went through.
Someone illegally setting foot on your land, even if its marked, does not entitle you to a truckload of money.
It doesn't even entitle you to invoke self-defense laws unless you have damn good reason to believe you're in danger.
Actually, it could easily be challenged in court. AT&T wouldn't have a legal leg to stand on as far as the early termination fee is concerned. They're basically saying that if they want to cancel your contact, then you must pay them. There's a certain feature about contract law that says that contracts can NOT be totally one sided like this. There's no cost for AT&T to recoup here. The point is you're using up too much in the way of resources on their very limited 3G network, so they cut you off..that's their advantage. You're no longer abusing their network.
They want to have their cake and eat it too, I'd take their asses to court in a heartbeat over this. I can understand the equipment thing, if for example you buy your $500 iPhone for $99 with the intention of a contract, where AT&T would recoup its losses for the iPhone. They should have to pay YOU for the early termination fee, however.
I have a theory that most cops start off as generally good cops.
Then, over time, they become dangerous and paranoid through a combination of near-death experiences, seeing absolutely horrible things (meth lab in baby's room, seven year old addicted to crack, etc), and peer pressure from the already hardened vets that they're placed with to help train them.
Add to this a zeal to uphold Justice (no matter how distorted it is in their mind) and their newly-expanded survival instinct..you have a recipe for disaster. You have an individual that is strongly motivated to use their appointed legal powers to do things like stereotype, profile, smash cameras, taze people that are behaving oddly, etc. Most of the time, they do things and then ask questions later.
Something must be done. I'm for mandatory psych evaluations every few years myself.
Ten dollars always sounded way too good to be true. Most likely, it was a napkin calculation that went public.
Its probably happened to a lot of companies, nothing to be ashamed of.
Employee A chats with Supervisor A at a bar or company event involving alcohol. Employee A says that he doesn't know why the laptops they bought cost so much, hell, he could put one together for ten dollars! One dollar for the casing and structure, two dollars for the battery and screen, three dollars for the 'innards, and four dollars for shipping and handling! How did these laptops cost us $400USD each?
Supervisor A, being sneaky, goes to Manager A. Who goes to Higher-Up A. Higher-Ups B and C approve, and get the gears working. Story is picked up and released. Higher-Ups A, B, and C, talk to their engineering department. They are promptly laughed at, between bites of curry.
You can actually seriously injure your kidneys doing squats if you aren't used to them. Basically, the muscles aren't strong enough and tear more than they should. The torn muscles release toxic byproducts into the blood, which the kidneys filter out. If there's too many, they clog the kidneys and cause rapid kidney failure. Without emergency treatment, possibly a kidney transplant, you'll die. Rhabdomyolysis is the name of it..people have died from it in the past. It happens more with thigh muscle exercises.
Now: Man's camera is damaged by the countermeasures. Man sues, wins thousands.
Near Future: Man's CCD-based artificial eye is damaged and he sues. Wins millions.
How about they link us to fairly priced movies?
Fuck paying DVD prices for a crappy quality movie you can't burn to your own DVD. You get no packaging, no extra materials, no DVD, nothing except for the movie file itself. All for the same price. Wal-Mart is a few minutes down the road and if I catch them on a sale, the WM version can be cheaper than the online version!
If the download version were quite a bit cheaper than the real version, hell, I'd do that before I bought the movie most likely.
The Chinese government is very protective of the profitability of their companies. If you were to circumvent this, I'd almost expect to disappear in the middle of the night and be subjected to some harsh questioning. The stakes are a little higher when they lose thousands and thousands of what they consider to be their money when you share your neighbor's DSL. As opposed to the US, where you'd be depriving a company of $40-60 for decent DSL service.
Not worth the risk in my opinion.
Another scenario, what if they were arrested and charged with theft? That's a pretty harsh crime there, especially for something as expensive as that DSL. That reporter would be going to jail for a long, long time, and the US wouldn't bail them out.
Don't tempt them!
Then they'll decide that if we really want access to the internet outside of the good old US of A, we'll need to get passports and to keep logs of what we do. ISPs will tack on the extra costs associated with monitoring/tracking/peering/etc to the bills of their customers, to be paid back within two months..but we all know they'd be there to stay.
Sites like liveleak would be shut down, and all of the 'good' sites would move to other countries.
Pirates and IP thieves alike would find themselves beside pot smokers doing ten years in the pen, while the murderers and rapists don't get justice served for longer and longer amounts of time -- they don't make the government any money.
Whats a bigger slap in the face than creating something complex like that to have it taken right out of your hands by people who can't even begin to appreciate its complexity and efficiency?
Having it taken right out of your hands, broken, and having the finger pointed at you. If you've seen some of the fake-IT people that have degrees, you'd know what I'm talking about. Delete the backup to save space! Uhoh, recover from the backup! Hey, where's the personnel files lol!
Do you trust your power company that much to provide clean power to you?
The power company provides power that's almost perfect when it comes out of the plans, in theory. However, there's a lot of line equipment between the generators and the consumers. Miles and miles and miles of copper in the form of lines, bus bars, transformers, etc. There's almost no way for them to clean up the power before it reaches your house other than making every single transformer a power regulator as well.
Sexually aware? Pre-puberty.
Sexually capable? Puberty.
Sexually mature? Really depends.
Sexually responsible? Quite a few ADULTS never reach this stage. Its actually easier to teach children and teenagers why safe sex is important and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Normally I'd say when they're informed enough to make a decision, they should go for it, but the United States absolutely HATES personal responsibility.