802.11b range - 300 foot circle, or 0.01 square miles
To cover Phili, you would need 13,500 APs, minimum.
Population of Phili - 5 million people @13,500 APs, you would have 370 people per AP, much above the 32 user max capacity, but I doubt more than 10% of the people would be online at once (is this crazy?)
End user bandwidth if all 32 users on an AP - ~150kbps.
I think $10 million is OK for the APs themselves, but no other telecom infrastructure. To do wireless AP to AP routing, we would need to use up ever more bandwidth...
And every digital television signal in the US has AC3 audio, per ATSC standard.
Interestingly enough, AC3 packets do not match up with the length of video frames in the US, making switching from one DTV MPEG-2 transport stream to another in a "broadcast quality" way quite annoying.
The shift in the US from manufacturing to service jobs has been going on since the 1950's...the same thing is happening in every other developed country that has made it past the agricultural and industrial phases.
The point is that wages and salaries are working people were up in July, but the rental and investment income (generally associated with "the rich") is down even more.
Also note that real disposable income (after taxes, i.e., with the tax cuts) grew 0.1 percent in July.
With regard to uranium, the study was right on the mark in flagging the common misconception about uranium supplies but again was overly cautious. In two decades there have been no shortages of uranium and no increase in cost. In fact, there is such an over supply of uranium that the cost today (about $12 per pound) is only fifty per cent greater than it was 25 years ago before the energy of the early seventies. Thus, considering the 200 per cent inflation rate that has accrued during this period, the real cost of uranium today is less than half the price at that time and less than one tenth the cost at the time of the study. It is dffficult to identify any other basic material whose real cost has declined so precipitously. At present many uranium mines have closed because they cannot compete at current prices and there is a worldwide excess capacity of enrichment facilities to produce low enriched uranium for standard light water reactors. In short, there is no economic reason to pay subsidies that would be required to operate a plutonium fuel cycle.
The funny thing is that wages and salaries were up in July, but other sources of personal income were down enough to reduce total personal income. From NASDAQ/Econoday:
But importantly wages and salaries did rise in the month, up 0.4 percent. Other sources of income weakened, including Medicare reimbursements, rental income, and interest income.
The other issue is that analog wireless phones are trivial to easedrop on. Now I have never done this myself, but some amateur radio buddies I know have some great stories from the wireless phones at the University of Maryland...
This could also rule the archive market for broadcast. I know several television producers using DVD jukeboxes and LTO (100-400 GB) tape robots. 1TB/disk is a jump up, and without the access time problems of linear tape.
Reprocessing is also uneconomic. Uranium is cheap (mainly because of the global slowdown in reactor building). Reprocessing, on the other hand, is expensive. Until the price of uranium goes up, there will be little reprocessing.
As someone who follows the science of economics, I find it incredibly difficult to buy into the vast majority of liberal economic policy, because it is generally anti-scientific and anti-growth.
Yet, at the same time, being an atheist, I also can not take being on the same side as religio-homophobes or anti-scientific creationists. Besides, the Republicans have no problems being anti-economic when it suits them (steel tarrifs, for example)
At the same time, most of the libertarians I know are nuts whose zeal for absolute freedom puts them outside the range of effective politics.
And the US is proping up a few dictatorships in the area (Egypt, Saudi arabia, ect..).
Yes, if the US did not provide military support for Egpyt or Saudi Arabia, Al Quaeda-inspired/funded militants would take over the countries and establish their own Taliban-esque Islamic dictatorships.
Of course, for Saudi Arabia, the only difference would be that foreigners would become just as oppressed as the citizens.
If current Chinese growth translates into enhanced human capital, we can expect political improvements such as democracy and enhanced freedoms.
A recent study showed that good economic policies, not political freedoms, are responsible for helping countries develop. However, once development allows human capital to expand (in terms of educational level), political improvement occurs:
For "security reasons", I can't change any of the network properties on my work laptop, including wireless settings (such as SSID)...you may be able to guess which OS I am running from the need to do this.
I can, however, run Virtual PC on my laptop, and have full control over my Ethernet NIC settings from a virtual machine...
So I'd like to use something like the D-Link DWL-810+ (Ethernet to Wireless Bridge) for mobile wireless usage, but I would like it to be USB powered so I don't need to plug it in.
Will this new D-Link device serve the same purpose?
Most growth in China is coming from private enterprises there. They account of 33% of China GDP and around 75% of GDP growth. The state-owned enterprises are inefficient lumbering hulks, which are slowly being taken apart.
Capitalism is triumphant in China. The question is how long dictatorship there can survive rising personal income.
for ITER we will be left with about 6000t of waste after 100 years of post-operation radioactive decay. That is equivalent to a cube with about 10 m edges. As this decays at a slower rate than the rest (taking about 200,000 years for the worst isotopes to decay to levels at which the material can be re-used with direct human contact) it makes sense to dispose of it in a long term repository where it can safely be forgotten. Such repositories will have to exist by then because, whatever you do with fission power, today's power stations will have to be disposed of safely. They have isotopes which remain highly radioactive for much longer, and are much more potentially biologically active than fusion waste if it gets into the "active" environment. You'll see from the above links in fact that ITER's waste is less biologically active than coal power station waste 100 years after operation.
I have a funny feeling that fusion power plants will have a large amount of nuclear waste over time.
My belief is that more safe and scalable fission research and deployment should be done, waste repositories opened, and when (if) fusion power becomes reasonable, we will have a waste disposal system ready to go for it.
Or does this mean that "Computer Science" is orthogonal to most "Software Engineering" done today, which is really just "Code Writing"?
When I think of "Computer Science," I imagine learning how to prove a sort is O(log(n)), or developing a new machine vision algorithm.
When I think of "Code Writing" I think of array x = heapsort(array y);/* heapsort is way fast OMG */
When I think of "Software Engineering" I think of "That's it, you guys have two days to get out the next release, or else the free Jolt machine is going away". You know, the "Full Lifecycle" stuff...
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Philadelphia City - 135 square miles
802.11b range - 300 foot circle, or 0.01 square miles
To cover Phili, you would need 13,500 APs, minimum.
Population of Phili - 5 million people
@13,500 APs, you would have 370 people per AP, much above the 32 user max capacity, but I doubt more than 10% of the people would be online at once (is this crazy?)
End user bandwidth if all 32 users on an AP - ~150kbps.
I think $10 million is OK for the APs themselves, but no other telecom infrastructure. To do wireless AP to AP routing, we would need to use up ever more bandwidth...
And every digital television signal in the US has AC3 audio, per ATSC standard.
Interestingly enough, AC3 packets do not match up with the length of video frames in the US, making switching from one DTV MPEG-2 transport stream to another in a "broadcast quality" way quite annoying.
The shift in the US from manufacturing to service jobs has been going on since the 1950's...the same thing is happening in every other developed country that has made it past the agricultural and industrial phases.
Yep, after tax real disposable income increased 2.4% in 1Q04 and 2.5% in the 2Q04.
The point is that wages and salaries are working people were up in July, but the rental and investment income (generally associated with "the rich") is down even more.
Also note that real disposable income (after taxes, i.e., with the tax cuts) grew 0.1 percent in July.
Natural U3O8 has been between $9 and $12 per pound for the last ten years - but now that I look there has been a spike to $18.50/lb in June.
From PBS Frontline:
With regard to uranium, the study was right on the mark in flagging the common misconception about uranium supplies but again was overly cautious. In two decades there have been no shortages of uranium and no increase in cost. In fact, there is such an over supply of uranium that the cost today (about $12 per pound) is only fifty per cent greater than it was 25 years ago before the energy of the early seventies. Thus, considering the 200 per cent inflation rate that has accrued during this period, the real cost of uranium today is less than half the price at that time and less than one tenth the cost at the time of the study. It is dffficult to identify any other basic material whose real cost has declined so precipitously. At present many uranium mines have closed because they cannot compete at current prices and there is a worldwide excess capacity of enrichment facilities to produce low enriched uranium for standard light water reactors. In short, there is no economic reason to pay subsidies that would be required to operate a plutonium fuel cycle.
The funny thing is that wages and salaries were up in July, but other sources of personal income were down enough to reduce total personal income. From NASDAQ/Econoday:
But importantly wages and salaries did rise in the month, up 0.4 percent. Other sources of income weakened, including Medicare reimbursements, rental income, and interest income.
The other issue is that analog wireless phones are trivial to easedrop on. Now I have never done this myself, but some amateur radio buddies I know have some great stories from the wireless phones at the University of Maryland...
Yes, but theaters could also use HDCAM tapes which at 100 Mbps+ will give you quality almost totally undetectably different from uncompressed HD.
This could also rule the archive market for broadcast. I know several television producers using DVD jukeboxes and LTO (100-400 GB) tape robots. 1TB/disk is a jump up, and without the access time problems of linear tape.
Reprocessing is also uneconomic. Uranium is cheap (mainly because of the global slowdown in reactor building). Reprocessing, on the other hand, is expensive. Until the price of uranium goes up, there will be little reprocessing.
As someone who follows the science of economics, I find it incredibly difficult to buy into the vast majority of liberal economic policy, because it is generally anti-scientific and anti-growth.
Yet, at the same time, being an atheist, I also can not take being on the same side as religio-homophobes or anti-scientific creationists. Besides, the Republicans have no problems being anti-economic when it suits them (steel tarrifs, for example)
At the same time, most of the libertarians I know are nuts whose zeal for absolute freedom puts them outside the range of effective politics.
Be happy you never had to be 37337 and trade g-philez and Atari 800 w4r3z at 300 bps...
And the US is proping up a few dictatorships in the area (Egypt, Saudi arabia, ect..).
Yes, if the US did not provide military support for Egpyt or Saudi Arabia, Al Quaeda-inspired/funded militants would take over the countries and establish their own Taliban-esque Islamic dictatorships.
Of course, for Saudi Arabia, the only difference would be that foreigners would become just as oppressed as the citizens.
If current Chinese growth translates into enhanced human capital, we can expect political improvements such as democracy and enhanced freedoms.
A recent study showed that good economic policies, not political freedoms, are responsible for helping countries develop. However, once development allows human capital to expand (in terms of educational level), political improvement occurs:
Reference (PDF)
BTW, the US just took down two dictatorships and are replacing them with democracies...
For "security reasons", I can't change any of the network properties on my work laptop, including wireless settings (such as SSID)...you may be able to guess which OS I am running from the need to do this.
I can, however, run Virtual PC on my laptop, and have full control over my Ethernet NIC settings from a virtual machine...
So I'd like to use something like the D-Link DWL-810+ (Ethernet to Wireless Bridge) for mobile wireless usage, but I would like it to be USB powered so I don't need to plug it in.
Will this new D-Link device serve the same purpose?
Can you hear anyone at a bar these days? The music is so dang loug...better off IMing on your PDA or texting on your cellphone...
Most growth in China is coming from private enterprises there. They account of 33% of China GDP and around 75% of GDP growth. The state-owned enterprises are inefficient lumbering hulks, which are slowly being taken apart.
Capitalism is triumphant in China. The question is how long dictatorship there can survive rising personal income.
Yes, the lateral resistance is called "gravity".
From the site:
for ITER we will be left with about 6000t of waste after 100 years of post-operation radioactive decay. That is equivalent to a cube with about 10 m edges. As this decays at a slower rate than the rest (taking about 200,000 years for the worst isotopes to decay to levels at which the material can be re-used with direct human contact) it makes sense to dispose of it in a long term repository where it can safely be forgotten. Such repositories will have to exist by then because, whatever you do with fission power, today's power stations will have to be disposed of safely. They have isotopes which remain highly radioactive for much longer, and are much more potentially biologically active than fusion waste if it gets into the "active" environment. You'll see from the above links in fact that ITER's waste is less biologically active than coal power station waste 100 years after operation.
I have a funny feeling that fusion power plants will have a large amount of nuclear waste over time.
My belief is that more safe and scalable fission research and deployment should be done, waste repositories opened, and when (if) fusion power becomes reasonable, we will have a waste disposal system ready to go for it.
Which worm is this?
I've been getting the same attacks!!!!!!!
Here are some recent dates/IPs...
Date: 13 Aug 2004 09:47:50 -0000
Failed password for illegal user test from 199.126.48.24 port 2592 ssh2
Date: 11 Aug 2004 18:20:32 -0000
Failed password for illegal user test from 163.17.136.172 port 37218 ssh2
Date: 11 Aug 2004 14:21:59 -0000
Failed password for illegal user user from 210.91.208.103 port 35096 ssh2
Date: 10 Aug 2004 19:27:30 -0000
Failed password for illegal user test from 218.189.216.82 port 4383 ssh2
Date: 10 Aug 2004 01:42:26 -0000
Failed password for illegal user test from 202.94.168.1 port 1911 ssh2
Date: 9 Aug 2004 13:21:32 -0000
Failed password for root from 61.221.77.82 port 1524 ssh2
Date: 9 Aug 2004 01:16:34 -0000
Failed password for illegal user test from 219.153.4.62 port 44974 ssh2
Date: 7 Aug 2004 23:08:02 -0000
Failed password for illegal user admin from 66.111.192.21 port 41135 ssh2
Yes, but is XFree86 dead?
I used to think this. Now I play Reversi whenever I am stuck somewhere. Of course, I'd prefer Web connectivity...
Or does this mean that "Computer Science" is orthogonal to most "Software Engineering" done today, which is really just "Code Writing"?
/* heapsort is way fast OMG */
When I think of "Computer Science," I imagine learning how to prove a sort is O(log(n)), or developing a new machine vision algorithm.
When I think of "Code Writing" I think of array x = heapsort(array y);
When I think of "Software Engineering" I think of "That's it, you guys have two days to get out the next release, or else the free Jolt machine is going away". You know, the "Full Lifecycle" stuff...