No, TCP is the protocol to use if you're moving video because you want to do an accurate transmission of the data and adding error checking to UDP is silly when there's a protocol that does it out of the box.
TCP is silly because the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm is very inefficient, and it leads to exceedingly slow file transfers especially over connections with high latency (say LA to London). The TCP bandwidth-delay product limit only depends round trip time, and can slow you down far below the actual amount of bandwidth you have actually purchased.
In Hollywood, everyone moves large video files using UDP file transfer protocols such Aspera and Signiant.
For instance, the level of malnutrition has increased drastically to 1 billion
The number of hungry people has not changed much from 1969-2008, varying between 800 and 900 million people.
Of course in 1969, world population was 3.6 billion, so the percent of hungry was 25%, whereas in 2008 the world population was 6.7 billion, so the percent of hungry is now closer to 13%.
Care to share with us how you found out about this hoax?
It is not a hoax, it is just that natural gas occurs in many aquifers: Environment Alberta says "Methane gas occurs naturally in groundwater aquifers in most geological sedimentary basins worldwide...Biogenic methane is produced by subsurface bacteria and is a common natural source of methane gas in groundwater aquifers used for water well supplies...Biogenic gas typically contains above 1000 times more methane than ethane....The results show that the gas contained in the sampled wells is primarily biogenic in origin."
Rocky Anderson aims for real campaign finance reform
So are candidates more influenced by corporate money since campaign finance reforms were started in 1970's, or since then?
A small campaign needs to dedicate a large amount of effort to conforming to campaign finance laws. Try running for office, and you'll see!
In reality, campaign finance reform is simply another way to make it harder to defeat incumbents. Which is why politicians vote for it!
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You do realize that the US spent A LOT of money during World War 2? You know -- the event that most say ended the great depression. Or am I missing something?
This is a common but flawed belief. There was no recovery in the private sector during WWII. It was a time of rationing and privation on the home front. Lots of borrowed money was being spent on munitions, but these were either destroyed by war or useless after it was over. It was much like the late-stage USSR - a country that made great military weapons, but little of value was available to the common private individual.
True recovery in the private sector began after WWII. Many economists feared that the end of tremendous government spending after the war would lead to another depression. What actually happened was a dramatic decrease in government spending accompanied by a huge expansion of the private sector. This certainly was jump-started by pent-up demand, but continued due to the relaxation of New Deal and WWII era regulations on business.
Politically, FDR was dead, Fascist command economies were defeated, and communism was now the enemy. American investors and business leaders felt safe to get private business going for the first time since 1930.
The US also benefitted by remaining mainly intact during WWII, while many other competing exporters in Europe were obliterated, giving a temporary edge to US manufacturing.
FDR did reverse the initial deflationary efforts of the Federal Reserve (intended to "pop the stock asset bubble") by pushing through the Gold Clause Ban and then devaluing the dollar. This lead to some initial recovery.
(Hoover said in a speech that he wanted to devalue as well, but was afraid of people with payable-in-gold clause loans getting too underwater. The Gold Clause Ban, a massive expansion of Federal power, made devaluation more politically acceptable).
But after the Gold Clause Ban and the devaluation, everything else FDR did just screwed up the market and kept the recovery from accelerating.
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Even Worse: Companies are defined as People (very rich and powerful People) and decide what our government will be.
I dunno, what companies caused Mao to starve 20 million Chinese people to death during the Great Leap Forward?
My intelligence is about all I have going for me. I know it's selfish, but I shudder to think of living in a world where *everyone* is smart by default.
Bad news, there are likely tens of millions of Chinese who have a higher IQ than you who are coming on to the world market...
Of course intelligence has a biological basis, it's just never been shown that genetics has a stronger effect than environment
Look at the science. A large number of studies have shown heritability of IQ to be between 0.7 and 0.8 in adults. The genetics has a stronger effect on IQ than environment.
Netflix has several million simultaneous streaming users, and I'd say it is likely Comcast at least has one million simultaneous Netflix streams. 1 million x 1 mbps = 10 Tbbps.
Do you have a 10 Tbps router? Do you know how much that costs? Maintenance?
And of course it isn't one big 10 Tbps router, but actually thousands of routers distributed across thousands of head-ends, along with all the monthly local-loop charges for each of those head-ends. And some of these cable head-ends are pretty far away from major POPs.
Comcast did it with bittorrent...so why wouldn't they with Netflix?
Because people's bittorrent screwed up people's Netflix streaming, and people care about Netflix streaming. They'd get mad if there was a problem with Netflix.
Bittorrent is non-real-time, Netflix is real-time.
The church has started Christian ceremonies during mainstream Indian festivals like Diwali etc, during which time theys hold huge, extravagant masses to celebrate supposedly Christian events.
Which parallels how we got today's "Christmas" on Dec. 25, a Christian attempt to pick up on existing Roman pagan solstice celebrations around the honoring of Bacchus.
I'm just surprised we seem to have stopped at 1080p
The issue is that the video delivery channels (broadcast, satellite, cable, Blu-Ray) got set up for HD @ 720p60 & 1080i30 & 1080p24. It took a lot of effort, and it would take a huge effort to move beyond this.
However you DO see the consumer electronics folks now trying to push 4K displays. They are great for computers, but is there really going to be mass adoption soon for formats that you need double the data to use? Most people get a pretty low-quality experience from streaming Netflix as it is. It will take a few years for the delivery channels to be ready to ramp up in bandwidth.
I just purchased a Sony DSC-HX100V superzoom camera that advertised 1080p60 video recording.
Guess what? It records 1080i. It comes with windows-only software to deinterlace it. Which means my workflow is very painful.
What is it with interlace? No one has CRTs anymore!
[I forgive 1080i30 ATSC A/53 broadcasters, as we're stuck with 720p60 or 1080i30 in ATSC countries - but no need to capture interlaced, capture and edit progressive, and let your MPEG-2 encoder do the 1080i compression if you must!]
Every single country in the world that has ever industrialized has experienced steep declines in population growth as its citizens become wealthier and more educated. This trend is already very noticeable in the up-and-coming Asian and BRIC countries.
Indeed, but it is unclear when this will happen to populous African countries such as Nigeria and Tanzania. Nigeria could rise from 150 million today to 425 million by 2050, Tanzania could rise from 50 million today to 300 million by 2050, pushed by fertility rates of over 5 births per woman.
The court wants to make their decision and give congress and the president as much time as possible to try to pass new laws to save the bill.
The US Supreme Court is made up on unelected individuals appointed for a lifetime. I believe they care about the interpretation of the Constitution. I'm not sure they care about anything else, which is probably how it should be.
The great depression happened AFTER the creation of the FED.
And specifically the Federal Reserve acted to try to "pop the asset bubble" and its actions created the deepest part of the Depression, as explained by Ben Bernancke:
early in 1928, and the Fed passed into the control of a coterie of aggressive bubble-poppers, of whom the most determined was probably Board Governor Adolph Miller... in 1928, in a situation in which the inflation rate was actually slightly negative and the economy was only barely emerging from a mild recession, the Fed began to raise interest rates...For short periods the rates on these loans sometimes spiked above 20 percent.
The popular view is that the market crash was the harbinger of the Great Depression. In fact, the weight of historical research has shown that this interpretation gets the causality largely backward. The economy was already slowing by the fall of 1929 (the NBER peak, marking the beginning of the Depression cycle, was in August 1929), largely as a result of monetary tightness.
The correct interpretation of the 1920s, then, is not the popular one--that the stock market got overvalued, crashed, and caused a Great Depression. The true story is that monetary policy tried overzealously to stop the rise in stock prices. But the main effect of the tight monetary policy, as Benjamin Strong had predicted, was to slow the economy--both domestically and, through the workings of the gold standard, abroad. The slowing economy, together with rising interest rates, was in turn a major factor in precipitating the stock market crash. This interpretation of the events of the late 1920s is shared by the most knowledgeable students of the period, including Keynes, Friedman and Schwartz, and other leading scholars of both the Depression era and today.
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No, TCP is the protocol to use if you're moving video because you want to do an accurate transmission of the data and adding error checking to UDP is silly when there's a protocol that does it out of the box.
TCP is silly because the TCP congestion avoidance algorithm is very inefficient, and it leads to exceedingly slow file transfers especially over connections with high latency (say LA to London). The TCP bandwidth-delay product limit only depends round trip time, and can slow you down far below the actual amount of bandwidth you have actually purchased.
In Hollywood, everyone moves large video files using UDP file transfer protocols such Aspera and Signiant.
Apparently Aspera is working on a solution for S3
Is 5% of GDP small while 2.5% of GDP (the defense budget) unsustainable and unaffordable?
2.5% of GDP for defense is unsustainable and unaffordable as well :)
For instance, the level of malnutrition has increased drastically to 1 billion
The number of hungry people has not changed much from 1969-2008, varying between 800 and 900 million people.
Of course in 1969, world population was 3.6 billion, so the percent of hungry was 25%, whereas in 2008 the world population was 6.7 billion, so the percent of hungry is now closer to 13%.
Do any of the cloud storage services come with a UDP file transfer system?
Trying to move video files with TCP is silly.
Care to share with us how you found out about this hoax?
It is not a hoax, it is just that natural gas occurs in many aquifers: Environment Alberta says "Methane gas occurs naturally in groundwater aquifers in most geological sedimentary basins worldwide...Biogenic methane is produced by subsurface bacteria and is a common natural source of methane gas in groundwater aquifers used for water well supplies...Biogenic gas typically contains above 1000 times more methane than ethane....The results show that the gas contained in the sampled wells is primarily biogenic in origin."
Rocky Anderson aims for real campaign finance reform
So are candidates more influenced by corporate money since campaign finance reforms were started in 1970's, or since then?
A small campaign needs to dedicate a large amount of effort to conforming to campaign finance laws. Try running for office, and you'll see!
In reality, campaign finance reform is simply another way to make it harder to defeat incumbents. Which is why politicians vote for it!
You do realize that the US spent A LOT of money during World War 2? You know -- the event that most say ended the great depression. Or am I missing something?
This is a common but flawed belief. There was no recovery in the private sector during WWII. It was a time of rationing and privation on the home front. Lots of borrowed money was being spent on munitions, but these were either destroyed by war or useless after it was over. It was much like the late-stage USSR - a country that made great military weapons, but little of value was available to the common private individual.
True recovery in the private sector began after WWII. Many economists feared that the end of tremendous government spending after the war would lead to another depression. What actually happened was a dramatic decrease in government spending accompanied by a huge expansion of the private sector. This certainly was jump-started by pent-up demand, but continued due to the relaxation of New Deal and WWII era regulations on business.
Politically, FDR was dead, Fascist command economies were defeated, and communism was now the enemy. American investors and business leaders felt safe to get private business going for the first time since 1930.
The US also benefitted by remaining mainly intact during WWII, while many other competing exporters in Europe were obliterated, giving a temporary edge to US manufacturing.
FDR helped to prolong the Great Depression
FDR did reverse the initial deflationary efforts of the Federal Reserve (intended to "pop the stock asset bubble") by pushing through the Gold Clause Ban and then devaluing the dollar. This lead to some initial recovery.
(Hoover said in a speech that he wanted to devalue as well, but was afraid of people with payable-in-gold clause loans getting too underwater. The Gold Clause Ban, a massive expansion of Federal power, made devaluation more politically acceptable).
But after the Gold Clause Ban and the devaluation, everything else FDR did just screwed up the market and kept the recovery from accelerating.
Even Worse: Companies are defined as People (very rich and powerful People) and decide what our government will be.
I dunno, what companies caused Mao to starve 20 million Chinese people to death during the Great Leap Forward?
Powerful populist leaders can be very dangerous.
My intelligence is about all I have going for me. I know it's selfish, but I shudder to think of living in a world where *everyone* is smart by default.
Bad news, there are likely tens of millions of Chinese who have a higher IQ than you who are coming on to the world market...
Of course intelligence has a biological basis, it's just never been shown that genetics has a stronger effect than environment
Look at the science. A large number of studies have shown heritability of IQ to be between 0.7 and 0.8 in adults. The genetics has a stronger effect on IQ than environment.
It could be that intelligence is unaffected by genes
A large number of studies have found the heritability of IQ to be between 0.7 and 0.8 in adults.
My best deal is at a $1/meg for transit
Netflix has several million simultaneous streaming users, and I'd say it is likely Comcast at least has one million simultaneous Netflix streams. 1 million x 1 mbps = 10 Tbbps.
Do you have a 10 Tbps router? Do you know how much that costs? Maintenance?
And of course it isn't one big 10 Tbps router, but actually thousands of routers distributed across thousands of head-ends, along with all the monthly local-loop charges for each of those head-ends. And some of these cable head-ends are pretty far away from major POPs.
Comcast did it with bittorrent...so why wouldn't they with Netflix?
Because people's bittorrent screwed up people's Netflix streaming, and people care about Netflix streaming. They'd get mad if there was a problem with Netflix.
Bittorrent is non-real-time, Netflix is real-time.
The church has started Christian ceremonies during mainstream Indian festivals like Diwali etc, during which time theys hold huge, extravagant masses to celebrate supposedly Christian events.
Which parallels how we got today's "Christmas" on Dec. 25, a Christian attempt to pick up on existing Roman pagan solstice celebrations around the honoring of Bacchus.
I'm just surprised we seem to have stopped at 1080p
The issue is that the video delivery channels (broadcast, satellite, cable, Blu-Ray) got set up for HD @ 720p60 & 1080i30 & 1080p24. It took a lot of effort, and it would take a huge effort to move beyond this.
However you DO see the consumer electronics folks now trying to push 4K displays. They are great for computers, but is there really going to be mass adoption soon for formats that you need double the data to use? Most people get a pretty low-quality experience from streaming Netflix as it is. It will take a few years for the delivery channels to be ready to ramp up in bandwidth.
Interlaced display formats should be eradicated.
I just purchased a Sony DSC-HX100V superzoom camera that advertised 1080p60 video recording.
Guess what? It records 1080i. It comes with windows-only software to deinterlace it. Which means my workflow is very painful.
What is it with interlace? No one has CRTs anymore!
[I forgive 1080i30 ATSC A/53 broadcasters, as we're stuck with 720p60 or 1080i30 in ATSC countries - but no need to capture interlaced, capture and edit progressive, and let your MPEG-2 encoder do the 1080i compression if you must!]
...socialized schools are their own reward!
I saw Lion King 3D and it seemed flat compared to other films original made in 3D.
Children with smaller inter-ocular distances may have perceived it as less flat.
Intelligent design has the potential to find much better solutions than evolution.
Intelligent design and planned economies both face the same problem: lack of omnipotent, all-knowing planner to produce optimal plans.
Evolution and the free market find distributed, network solutions using local knowledge, even if they are not theoretically optimal.
Every single country in the world that has ever industrialized has experienced steep declines in population growth as its citizens become wealthier and more educated. This trend is already very noticeable in the up-and-coming Asian and BRIC countries.
Indeed, but it is unclear when this will happen to populous African countries such as Nigeria and Tanzania. Nigeria could rise from 150 million today to 425 million by 2050, Tanzania could rise from 50 million today to 300 million by 2050, pushed by fertility rates of over 5 births per woman.
Sub-Saharan African population will rise from around 800 million today to 1.5 to 2 billion by 2050. This should push world population to over 10 billion by 2050.
There would have to be a very dramatic political/cultural change in Africa to achieve widespread industrialzation to reduce fertility rates.
Perhaps some good governance might help.
Why do intelligent people make the argument that trusting the market, and the "invisible hand" will always have the best outcome?
Because evolution beats intelligent design :)
live in Toronto, a few blocks from the windmill on the lakeshore.
That is one windmill..imagine if you lived next to about 4,000 wind turbines like the San Gorgonio pass in California!
The court wants to make their decision and give congress and the president as much time as possible to try to pass new laws to save the bill.
The US Supreme Court is made up on unelected individuals appointed for a lifetime. I believe they care about the interpretation of the Constitution. I'm not sure they care about anything else, which is probably how it should be.
The great depression happened AFTER the creation of the FED.
And specifically the Federal Reserve acted to try to "pop the asset bubble" and its actions created the deepest part of the Depression, as explained by Ben Bernancke:
early in 1928, and the Fed passed into the control of a coterie of aggressive bubble-poppers, of whom the most determined was probably Board Governor Adolph Miller... in 1928, in a situation in which the inflation rate was actually slightly negative and the economy was only barely emerging from a mild recession, the Fed began to raise interest rates...For short periods the rates on these loans sometimes spiked above 20 percent.
The popular view is that the market crash was the harbinger of the Great Depression. In fact, the weight of historical research has shown that this interpretation gets the causality largely backward. The economy was already slowing by the fall of 1929 (the NBER peak, marking the beginning of the Depression cycle, was in August 1929), largely as a result of monetary tightness.
The correct interpretation of the 1920s, then, is not the popular one--that the stock market got overvalued, crashed, and caused a Great Depression. The true story is that monetary policy tried overzealously to stop the rise in stock prices. But the main effect of the tight monetary policy, as Benjamin Strong had predicted, was to slow the economy--both domestically and, through the workings of the gold standard, abroad. The slowing economy, together with rising interest rates, was in turn a major factor in precipitating the stock market crash. This interpretation of the events of the late 1920s is shared by the most knowledgeable students of the period, including Keynes, Friedman and Schwartz, and other leading scholars of both the Depression era and today.