So the only other solution to 'reasonable' traffic management is overprovisioning. I know that your average Slashdotter thinks that ISPs should not 'oversubscribe' their lines, but saying this reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the way packet switched networks work. I run networks. They're always oversubscribed.
Do you know why they call it "the internet"? The internet is a connection of various independant networks. ISP's provide access to 'the internet' as a last mile service. Packet switching is a technology used to direct traffic across the independently operated network nodes that make up 'the internet'. An ISP has direct control and responsibility for the network that they operate. ISP's certainly can refrain from oversubscribing their capacity, they simply chose not to.
Overprovisioning to the fantasy-level of a Slashdotter is very expensive because you're not just talking about extra bandwidth in the endpoints-- you're talking about bandwidth at the core.
So don't provision your network beyond what your core is capable of handling. In other words, don't pocket the profits and return crappy service in return, but invest in upgrading your core capacity so that you can ensure the BW rates you advertise. Why is that such a difficult concept for 'network managers' to understand?
So yeah, if the costs stack up right and the consumer preference actually does favor neutrality, then a free market would deliver it.
You mean if the costs stack up in favor of the providers, then the 'free market' would deliver. As another poster pointed out, it doesn't matter what consumer's want -- the internet is too important and the market will pay the cost anyway. Therefore, it is govt's responsibility to protect the consumer's interests -- especially since, as the legislation points out, there is a (govt. granted) monopoly in the communications industry.
That's actually more restrictive than net neutrality because it would mean they have to guarantee a certain minimum bandwidth in order to advertise that bandwidth. Which is fairly unrealistic.
Why is that unrealistic? It should be extremely easy to guarranty a minimum amount of bandwidth simply by responsibly partioning your bandwidth amounst your various customers so as not to oversell your capactity. Isn't that what the guarranty is supposed to be with ISP's offering BW rate based service tiers? I'd much rather know that my service will always be at least 10Mbps and happily surprized that I'm getting 100, than told I should be getting 100, but actually only getting 10.
So if we were really serious about making a dent in oil consumption and CO2, we would be pushing for more fuel-efficient pickup trucks, cargo vans and SUVs instead of this inane (but highly press-friendly!) pursuit of ever-more-efficient small vehicles.
Agreed, lets not try to do both, who knows what would happen then. All of us people who think your post was +5 insightful, would much rather be able to cummute in our SUV's without having to look at those nasty 'greenies' making us feel bad about our wasteful habits!
However, what I think is the worst part about electric vehicles is there is no easy way to get started if you get stranded. Its happened to all of us, either you forgot to get gas, or the gas gauge was inaccurate, but you run out of gas.
Existing battery powered vehicles 'run out' of power at about the 30% charge level in order to extend the useable life time of the batteries. My guess is that the car will shut down and require you to re-start in some 'get yourself to a charging station now' mode if you attempt to drive below this level; not unlike gas vehicle warning systems. However, with a 100 mile range and a daily charging routine, I suspect this would never be an issue. People are going to want to use this car for commuting, not for intracity-state travel.
As for the AC and heat, those will represent significant drains on the battery, but probably not as much as you think. The electric motor already generates heat and could be used as a pump with a little more energy.
As far as possible all my puzzles are based on ideas in the original book. So my Dante's Inferno is a lot closer to the book than EA Games' Dante's Inferno that changes Dante into a warrior with a giant scythe!
I thought that the title "Divine Comedy" was indicative the fact that the real Dante painted with the blood of the dead. So what EA did was appropriate, no?
Theists are always using the wrong arguments when the try to disprove atheists. They're all about how well bananas fit in the hand and whatnot. That kind of stuff is easily explained by evolution.
Now this, on the other hand, is a good argument.
Why fingerprints though, as opposed to say, dental imprints? Surely there are other ways to uniquely ID people, some of which we probably don't know about yet; of what significance is one over another?
350 ft/s is about 238 miles per hour. That would mean that the underwater vessel would be traveling at about 330 miles per hour. That's jet aircraft speed. I find that highly unlikely as well, especially in a manned vehicle.
Women tend to gravitate towards fields which there is a degree of socializing, such as education, medicine (Regular and veterinary), and communications.
Men tend to gravitate towards either exciting fields, or fields which they feel will be financial rewarding.
That certainly used to be the case in my parents generation. However, I've noted more interest in crossing the traditional roles by the opposite sexes in my own life time. I'd say that people in contemporary society have been engineered (physically and psychologically) with a purpose towards eliminating those traditional distinctions.
They are Muslim, they would probably get their eyes forceably removed under sharia law for looking at porn, or forceably remove your eyes for looking at porn. Muslim society has the right idea with regards to pornography, but it is highly legalistic, and they have little tolerance for law breakers.
Lightly regulated capitalism has shown to be the quickest "means to the ends" of technological progress and efficiency that the world has seen so far. The more efficiently we can satisfy our survival needs, the more time we have for altruistic endeavours.
If I'm not mistaken, warfare has historically been the fastest, most efficient route to societal development. Capitalist rulers, or capitalist societies, either way: the drive to fullfill selfish desires has always proven to be the strongest or at least most successfull motivation for development.
We can thank our vets for providing the rest of us the luxuries of modern society (which were achieved at their expense, primarily for the benefit of those in power).
You are correct, but light can change it's polarization as it travels through any particular medium. Thus you can create light polarized with specific patterns (circular). You can filter out undesired polarizations by controlling characteristics of the medium. Same thing with wavelength -- the characteristics of the substance that makes up the media determine the transparency of the media to any particular wavelength. They seem to be layering the recording medium with material of differing characteristics. So it appears they are recording data at different wavelengths and different polarizations in different layers of the medium. Perhaps, the nanorods are small enough to provide extra dimensional storage capacity in the medium itself when compared to existing media.
It brings another question I have always had though, Won't increased global temperatures have a tendency to increase overall precipitation levels worldwide? Warmer Oceans would evaporate more, producing more clouds and rain. I don't get a chance to talk to climate scientists a lot, but most of the lay people I talk to seem to think that increasing global temperatures will automatically result in bigger deserts and more drought.
The answer to your question is yes, there will be more moisture in the atmosphere, generally speaking. However, the moisture will be distributed unevenly, with most of it being generated and precipitated in the northern hemisphere. This compounds a problem in that many regions in the world that are most populous will experience more problems with the desertification of their lands.
This helps with the population problem in that we will no longer have to rely on third world dictators and governmental irresponsibility to manage third world populations... the weather will help us out.
That said, if I want to do something stupid to myself, I should be able to buy "dietary supplements" made from my own stem cells and inject them wherever I please.
That would be fine so long as you agreed not to have children of your own. I wouldn't want someone like yourself marrying any children of mine.
FTA:
"Compounding pharmacies have been coming under FDA pressure for a long time, and have now organized and set up their own standards and guidelines as a way to combat that interference."
and...
Instead of being regulated by the FDA, fertility doctors are regulated state-by-state. The reason, says Dr. Centeno, is simple: "They organized, put their own standards in place, and created a case, saying, 'Listen, this is the practice of medicine, and you, by charter, are not allowed to regulate the practice of medicine.'
Why is it that they need to regulate their practice on a state by state level? Isn't medicine universal? Shouldn't the AMA have a hand in this? It seems to me that what they are really trying to do, at least with stem cells, is develop their own practices and procedures free from oversight. This sounds very dangerous to me.
The evidence is that it should be plainly obvious that what they are doing with stem cells amounts to the development of treatments that akin to a drug. Therefore, what they are attempting to do is much more than a procedure, and something that should come under general medical review and be approved by the FDA, just like any other developed medicine.
20 minutes then, still not bad, for a full recharge.
The auto companies are already colaborating on a standard interface. However I agree with many commentators in that standardization (of battery, not interface, tech) will have a stifling effect on development in a field that is rapidly developing.
Not all Prius's are the same. The newer models have a modular battery system. The Prius dealer, I talked to had one of the newer models and told he that he did have to replace one or two of the modules. So I think the Toyota folks are either lying or playing with definitions.
Or maybe it's because ordinary people recognize that chaotic systems are not predictable. The ice caps are melting does not imply that my house is going to be flooded next week,
The system may not be entirely predictable, but that doesn't mean we can't track our effects on the environment and predict what the impact of warming will be. It really doesn't matter wether or not you're a believer in AGW, if we can show that we can do something to fix the problem, then we are obligated to do so.
The fact is that warming is already affecting the world's poor in terms of food and water shortages. If it gets much worse, then global polictical instability will become an expensive problem even for joe consumer in the US.
There are more sensible ways of producing the desired results than injecting pollution in the atmosphere, the problem is that they rely on personal responsibility, and government action. Unfortunately the US has proven to be very capable of either thus far.
The idea of scarcity has nothing to do with economic models, and everything to do with the people themselves. We could eliminate scarcity today if we wanted to. Even in a system of unlimited resources, there will always be those who wish to prevent others from aquiring their own fair share if for no other reason than to use it as a sort of hammer to get people to do their bidding.
Even in the Star Trek universe, there could be no elimination of scarcity amoung humans. If the people were truely capable of living in such a fashion, they would have no need and probably no desire to form a federation with races that lived in constant internal conflict.
Since all their technology was gone and they couldn't even make a pencil because they had grown so dependant on technology they had to go back to writing on rocks.
Or writing in rocks. Reminds me of one of the scenes from Space Oddessy 2001. Maybe the location of the lost city of Atlantis is inscribed on a black obelisk buried in the center of the moon.
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So the only other solution to 'reasonable' traffic management is overprovisioning. I know that your average Slashdotter thinks that ISPs should not 'oversubscribe' their lines, but saying this reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the way packet switched networks work. I run networks. They're always oversubscribed.
Do you know why they call it "the internet"? The internet is a connection of various independant networks. ISP's provide access to 'the internet' as a last mile service. Packet switching is a technology used to direct traffic across the independently operated network nodes that make up 'the internet'. An ISP has direct control and responsibility for the network that they operate. ISP's certainly can refrain from oversubscribing their capacity, they simply chose not to.
Overprovisioning to the fantasy-level of a Slashdotter is very expensive because you're not just talking about extra bandwidth in the endpoints-- you're talking about bandwidth at the core.
So don't provision your network beyond what your core is capable of handling. In other words, don't pocket the profits and return crappy service in return, but invest in upgrading your core capacity so that you can ensure the BW rates you advertise. Why is that such a difficult concept for 'network managers' to understand?
So yeah, if the costs stack up right and the consumer preference actually does favor neutrality, then a free market would deliver it.
You mean if the costs stack up in favor of the providers, then the 'free market' would deliver. As another poster pointed out, it doesn't matter what consumer's want -- the internet is too important and the market will pay the cost anyway. Therefore, it is govt's responsibility to protect the consumer's interests -- especially since, as the legislation points out, there is a (govt. granted) monopoly in the communications industry.
That's actually more restrictive than net neutrality because it would mean they have to guarantee a certain minimum bandwidth in order to advertise that bandwidth. Which is fairly unrealistic.
Why is that unrealistic? It should be extremely easy to guarranty a minimum amount of bandwidth simply by responsibly partioning your bandwidth amounst your various customers so as not to oversell your capactity. Isn't that what the guarranty is supposed to be with ISP's offering BW rate based service tiers? I'd much rather know that my service will always be at least 10Mbps and happily surprized that I'm getting 100, than told I should be getting 100, but actually only getting 10.
P2P is not a hardware.
If it were hardware, or performed in hardware, it would be protected in this bill...
So if we were really serious about making a dent in oil consumption and CO2, we would be pushing for more fuel-efficient pickup trucks, cargo vans and SUVs instead of this inane (but highly press-friendly!) pursuit of ever-more-efficient small vehicles.
Agreed, lets not try to do both, who knows what would happen then. All of us people who think your post was +5 insightful, would much rather be able to cummute in our SUV's without having to look at those nasty 'greenies' making us feel bad about our wasteful habits!
However, what I think is the worst part about electric vehicles is there is no easy way to get started if you get stranded. Its happened to all of us, either you forgot to get gas, or the gas gauge was inaccurate, but you run out of gas.
Existing battery powered vehicles 'run out' of power at about the 30% charge level in order to extend the useable life time of the batteries. My guess is that the car will shut down and require you to re-start in some 'get yourself to a charging station now' mode if you attempt to drive below this level; not unlike gas vehicle warning systems. However, with a 100 mile range and a daily charging routine, I suspect this would never be an issue. People are going to want to use this car for commuting, not for intracity-state travel.
As for the AC and heat, those will represent significant drains on the battery, but probably not as much as you think. The electric motor already generates heat and could be used as a pump with a little more energy.
As far as possible all my puzzles are based on ideas in the original book. So my Dante's Inferno is a lot closer to the book than EA Games' Dante's Inferno that changes Dante into a warrior with a giant scythe!
I thought that the title "Divine Comedy" was indicative the fact that the real Dante painted with the blood of the dead. So what EA did was appropriate, no?
Why not let the government bail them out? That is what the government does, right?
That would give new meaning to the use of stimulus funds for buying up toxic assets.
It said that AT&T's challenge "relies on the incorrect premise that speed is an essential element of the standard for measuring network reliability.'"
Isn't that tantamount to admitting that your network is slow?
Why fingerprints though, as opposed to say, dental imprints? Surely there are other ways to uniquely ID people, some of which we probably don't know about yet; of what significance is one over another?
Would you like to borrow my battering ram?
350 ft/s is about 238 miles per hour. That would mean that the underwater vessel would be traveling at about 330 miles per hour. That's jet aircraft speed. I find that highly unlikely as well, especially in a manned vehicle.
Women tend to gravitate towards fields which there is a degree of socializing, such as education, medicine (Regular and veterinary), and communications. Men tend to gravitate towards either exciting fields, or fields which they feel will be financial rewarding.
That certainly used to be the case in my parents generation. However, I've noted more interest in crossing the traditional roles by the opposite sexes in my own life time. I'd say that people in contemporary society have been engineered (physically and psychologically) with a purpose towards eliminating those traditional distinctions.
They are Muslim, they would probably get their eyes forceably removed under sharia law for looking at porn, or forceably remove your eyes for looking at porn. Muslim society has the right idea with regards to pornography, but it is highly legalistic, and they have little tolerance for law breakers.
Lightly regulated capitalism has shown to be the quickest "means to the ends" of technological progress and efficiency that the world has seen so far. The more efficiently we can satisfy our survival needs, the more time we have for altruistic endeavours.
If I'm not mistaken, warfare has historically been the fastest, most efficient route to societal development. Capitalist rulers, or capitalist societies, either way: the drive to fullfill selfish desires has always proven to be the strongest or at least most successfull motivation for development. We can thank our vets for providing the rest of us the luxuries of modern society (which were achieved at their expense, primarily for the benefit of those in power).
You are correct, but light can change it's polarization as it travels through any particular medium. Thus you can create light polarized with specific patterns (circular). You can filter out undesired polarizations by controlling characteristics of the medium. Same thing with wavelength -- the characteristics of the substance that makes up the media determine the transparency of the media to any particular wavelength. They seem to be layering the recording medium with material of differing characteristics. So it appears they are recording data at different wavelengths and different polarizations in different layers of the medium. Perhaps, the nanorods are small enough to provide extra dimensional storage capacity in the medium itself when compared to existing media.
It brings another question I have always had though, Won't increased global temperatures have a tendency to increase overall precipitation levels worldwide? Warmer Oceans would evaporate more, producing more clouds and rain. I don't get a chance to talk to climate scientists a lot, but most of the lay people I talk to seem to think that increasing global temperatures will automatically result in bigger deserts and more drought.
The answer to your question is yes, there will be more moisture in the atmosphere, generally speaking. However, the moisture will be distributed unevenly, with most of it being generated and precipitated in the northern hemisphere. This compounds a problem in that many regions in the world that are most populous will experience more problems with the desertification of their lands.
This helps with the population problem in that we will no longer have to rely on third world dictators and governmental irresponsibility to manage third world populations... the weather will help us out.
I watched a huntsman and a wasp having a battle once, the huntsman shot up a tree and jumped off a brunch.
Did you mean to say that it jumped off "as" brunch?
That said, if I want to do something stupid to myself, I should be able to buy "dietary supplements" made from my own stem cells and inject them wherever I please.
That would be fine so long as you agreed not to have children of your own. I wouldn't want someone like yourself marrying any children of mine.
FTA:
"Compounding pharmacies have been coming under FDA pressure for a long time, and have now organized and set up their own standards and guidelines as a way to combat that interference."
and...
Instead of being regulated by the FDA, fertility doctors are regulated state-by-state. The reason, says Dr. Centeno, is simple: "They organized, put their own standards in place, and created a case, saying, 'Listen, this is the practice of medicine, and you, by charter, are not allowed to regulate the practice of medicine.'
Why is it that they need to regulate their practice on a state by state level? Isn't medicine universal? Shouldn't the AMA have a hand in this? It seems to me that what they are really trying to do, at least with stem cells, is develop their own practices and procedures free from oversight. This sounds very dangerous to me.
The evidence is that it should be plainly obvious that what they are doing with stem cells amounts to the development of treatments that akin to a drug. Therefore, what they are attempting to do is much more than a procedure, and something that should come under general medical review and be approved by the FDA, just like any other developed medicine.
If you look at the reflection in his eyes, you can see the teleprompter hidden in the flowers. There's also fishing line tied around his neck :P
20 minutes then, still not bad, for a full recharge. The auto companies are already colaborating on a standard interface. However I agree with many commentators in that standardization (of battery, not interface, tech) will have a stifling effect on development in a field that is rapidly developing.
Not all Prius's are the same. The newer models have a modular battery system. The Prius dealer, I talked to had one of the newer models and told he that he did have to replace one or two of the modules. So I think the Toyota folks are either lying or playing with definitions.
Or maybe it's because ordinary people recognize that chaotic systems are not predictable. The ice caps are melting does not imply that my house is going to be flooded next week,
The system may not be entirely predictable, but that doesn't mean we can't track our effects on the environment and predict what the impact of warming will be. It really doesn't matter wether or not you're a believer in AGW, if we can show that we can do something to fix the problem, then we are obligated to do so.
The fact is that warming is already affecting the world's poor in terms of food and water shortages. If it gets much worse, then global polictical instability will become an expensive problem even for joe consumer in the US.
There are more sensible ways of producing the desired results than injecting pollution in the atmosphere, the problem is that they rely on personal responsibility, and government action. Unfortunately the US has proven to be very capable of either thus far.
Here's an industry expert that talks about the effects of global warming and the kinds of things that will have to be done to combat them: http://fora.tv/2009/01/16/Saul_Griffith_Climate_Change_Recalculated#chapter_01.
The idea of scarcity has nothing to do with economic models, and everything to do with the people themselves. We could eliminate scarcity today if we wanted to. Even in a system of unlimited resources, there will always be those who wish to prevent others from aquiring their own fair share if for no other reason than to use it as a sort of hammer to get people to do their bidding.
Even in the Star Trek universe, there could be no elimination of scarcity amoung humans. If the people were truely capable of living in such a fashion, they would have no need and probably no desire to form a federation with races that lived in constant internal conflict.
Since all their technology was gone and they couldn't even make a pencil because they had grown so dependant on technology they had to go back to writing on rocks.
Or writing in rocks. Reminds me of one of the scenes from Space Oddessy 2001. Maybe the location of the lost city of Atlantis is inscribed on a black obelisk buried in the center of the moon.