You kind of gloss over "the initial outlay of satellites" seeing as how they're planning to launch 4000 of them. They're also not cubesats, their estimated mass is more than a hundred times that of a cubesat.
It's possible that they'll slip replacements in here or there, but the expectation is that they'll be launching these things from Vandenberg (they're launching all the Iridium satellites from there too, and they've leased a second launch pad there). Doesn't that imply that their satellites will be in a retrograde orbit, and that they could only launch replacements from Vandenberg?
MSS failed in that all the companies that built MSS networks went bankrupt and were purchased for pennies on the dollar. They're only profitable today because the current MSS providers essentially got their networks for close to free.
In what way is wired technology evolving less than wireless? Copper has gone from 10 Mbps to 100Mbps to GigE to 10GigE to 40GigE. Fibre has done the same, but the density of WDM has gone up a lot, the channel bandwidth has increased dramatically. Residential broadband has undergone huge changes, with the move from DOCSIS 1 to 2 to 3 (and soon 3.1) on the cable side, the move from ADSL to ADSL2 to VDSL2 on the telephone side, and the evolution of passive optical networks for fibre, currently transitioning from GPON to 10GPON.
Telling the police that you intend to break the law does not mean you won't be punished appropriately when you do so. In fact, it will increase the punishment because your premeditation is demonstrable.
This is literally various similar projects (PNaCL, asm.js, etc) being merged into one industry-wide project. And by literally I mean the PNaCL and asm.js teams are working on WebAssembly.
We investigate technologies of websites, not of individual web pages. If we find a technology on any of the pages, it is considered to be used by the website.
So a single PHP file on slashdot.org would label it as "powered by PHP" despite everything else on the site being in perl.
We do not consider subdomains to be separate websites.
forums.mysite.com might use PHP, but that doesn't mean that www.mysite.com is "powered by PHP". But their stats count it as such.
In short, they treat PHP like a virus: *ANY* evidence of PHP on an entire TLD labels the entire TLD as "powered by PHP".
It was convenient, because it added a bunch of features to IE. As you said, it added a search box to IE long before URL-bar searching was a thing, but it also allowed search term highlighting, a popup blocker, form auto-fill, in-browser spellcheck, etc. All of this is built-in to web browsers today, but back in the day, the Google Toolbar was legitimately useful.
IIRC the SpaceX satellites will feature electric propulsion, but there is very little drag at 1,100km. Without using any propulsion, they wouldn't fully decay for a few dozen millennia.
I'm in Canada, I'm observing that over the past 7 years, caps have gone down, prices have gone up. Average speed is meaningless when the ratio between cap and what's theoretically possible is 20,000 to 1.
You tell me, you're the one who brought it up... I made a post complaining that over the past 7 years, transfer caps have gone down while speeds have gone up, and you started on about average speeds.
No need to incur crippling debt, just attend university in Montreal. We won't let you do it as cheap as somebody from Quebec, but you'll still pay a fraction as much as in the US. McGill is pretty reputable, although we've got less pretentious options too, like Concordia.
A 6GB "Max" plan from Fido (Rogers) costs $80 in Quebec, but it's a voice and data plan. Back in 2008, the 6GB data plan was $30, and then you'd pay another $30 for your voice plan and $10 for your value pack. That's $70. So a new plan is $10 more today than it was in 2008.
When did I say average transfer was more important than peak rates? Most people have 2GB caps on their phone service, and their 150Mbps phones can blow through that cap in under two minutes. Is that not a bit silly? That your monthly service can only be used for around 107 seconds per month?
Smartphone penetration in Canada (Rogers' territory) was at 55% in 2014, and increased to 68% in 2015. That's still substantial growth, and indicates that we're still a few years away from market saturation. As such, it would be several years before we'd see the effects you forecast, which doesn't leave much time for meaningful reductions in data prices in the next five years.
It's not possible for a single phone to support every possible LTE band simultaneously (read: no such cellular radio exists). As such, manufacturers have to pick the most common bands in a given region. It's not due to lack of standardization.
In 2008, Rogers introduced a 6GB data plan for $30 as part of the launch of the iPhone 3G.
7 years later, the equivalent 6GB plan costs roughly $10-15 more.
Considering that cellular bandwidth caps have effectively shrunk over the past 7 years, despite speeds increasing by 40x, please explain why I should expect caps to be dramatically higher 5 years from today?
Bullshit. Not only do they support external monitors, they actively advertise support for external monitors. They list the specs of what external monitors their new 13" MacBook supports right on their site (which is pretty much every monitor on the market).
There is nothing stopping you from plugging in an external display to any Apple laptop, past or present. The 13" MacBook that you appear to be alluding to supports 4K external monitors.
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You kind of gloss over "the initial outlay of satellites" seeing as how they're planning to launch 4000 of them. They're also not cubesats, their estimated mass is more than a hundred times that of a cubesat.
It's possible that they'll slip replacements in here or there, but the expectation is that they'll be launching these things from Vandenberg (they're launching all the Iridium satellites from there too, and they've leased a second launch pad there). Doesn't that imply that their satellites will be in a retrograde orbit, and that they could only launch replacements from Vandenberg?
It will also show you that neither has managed to actually pull it off, and have suffered some setbacks.
MSS failed in that all the companies that built MSS networks went bankrupt and were purchased for pennies on the dollar. They're only profitable today because the current MSS providers essentially got their networks for close to free.
In what way is wired technology evolving less than wireless? Copper has gone from 10 Mbps to 100Mbps to GigE to 10GigE to 40GigE. Fibre has done the same, but the density of WDM has gone up a lot, the channel bandwidth has increased dramatically. Residential broadband has undergone huge changes, with the move from DOCSIS 1 to 2 to 3 (and soon 3.1) on the cable side, the move from ADSL to ADSL2 to VDSL2 on the telephone side, and the evolution of passive optical networks for fibre, currently transitioning from GPON to 10GPON.
That's quite the feat, registering a YouTube channel two years before YouTube existed.
Telling the police that you intend to break the law does not mean you won't be punished appropriately when you do so. In fact, it will increase the punishment because your premeditation is demonstrable.
This is literally various similar projects (PNaCL, asm.js, etc) being merged into one industry-wide project. And by literally I mean the PNaCL and asm.js teams are working on WebAssembly.
Because not every rocket launch is successful.
It's exactly as I suggest:
We investigate technologies of websites, not of individual web pages. If we find a technology on any of the pages, it is considered to be used by the website.
So a single PHP file on slashdot.org would label it as "powered by PHP" despite everything else on the site being in perl.
We do not consider subdomains to be separate websites.
forums.mysite.com might use PHP, but that doesn't mean that www.mysite.com is "powered by PHP". But their stats count it as such.
In short, they treat PHP like a virus: *ANY* evidence of PHP on an entire TLD labels the entire TLD as "powered by PHP".
Just like good Perl is possible.
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PHP does not power 80% of the web, it is merely present on at least one server behind 80% of TLDs. That's not the same thing.
It was convenient, because it added a bunch of features to IE. As you said, it added a search box to IE long before URL-bar searching was a thing, but it also allowed search term highlighting, a popup blocker, form auto-fill, in-browser spellcheck, etc. All of this is built-in to web browsers today, but back in the day, the Google Toolbar was legitimately useful.
IIRC the SpaceX satellites will feature electric propulsion, but there is very little drag at 1,100km. Without using any propulsion, they wouldn't fully decay for a few dozen millennia.
I'm in Canada, I'm observing that over the past 7 years, caps have gone down, prices have gone up. Average speed is meaningless when the ratio between cap and what's theoretically possible is 20,000 to 1.
Why? When comparing performance per watt, the single-threaded score of a multi-threaded part is irrelevant.
You tell me, you're the one who brought it up... I made a post complaining that over the past 7 years, transfer caps have gone down while speeds have gone up, and you started on about average speeds.
No need to incur crippling debt, just attend university in Montreal. We won't let you do it as cheap as somebody from Quebec, but you'll still pay a fraction as much as in the US. McGill is pretty reputable, although we've got less pretentious options too, like Concordia.
Huh? There hasn't been a truly unlimited service offering in Canada since before the smartphone era...
A 6GB "Max" plan from Fido (Rogers) costs $80 in Quebec, but it's a voice and data plan. Back in 2008, the 6GB data plan was $30, and then you'd pay another $30 for your voice plan and $10 for your value pack. That's $70. So a new plan is $10 more today than it was in 2008.
When did I say average transfer was more important than peak rates? Most people have 2GB caps on their phone service, and their 150Mbps phones can blow through that cap in under two minutes. Is that not a bit silly? That your monthly service can only be used for around 107 seconds per month?
Smartphone penetration in Canada (Rogers' territory) was at 55% in 2014, and increased to 68% in 2015. That's still substantial growth, and indicates that we're still a few years away from market saturation. As such, it would be several years before we'd see the effects you forecast, which doesn't leave much time for meaningful reductions in data prices in the next five years.
It's not possible for a single phone to support every possible LTE band simultaneously (read: no such cellular radio exists). As such, manufacturers have to pick the most common bands in a given region. It's not due to lack of standardization.
In 2008, Rogers introduced a 6GB data plan for $30 as part of the launch of the iPhone 3G.
7 years later, the equivalent 6GB plan costs roughly $10-15 more.
Considering that cellular bandwidth caps have effectively shrunk over the past 7 years, despite speeds increasing by 40x, please explain why I should expect caps to be dramatically higher 5 years from today?
Bullshit. Not only do they support external monitors, they actively advertise support for external monitors. They list the specs of what external monitors their new 13" MacBook supports right on their site (which is pretty much every monitor on the market).
There is nothing stopping you from plugging in an external display to any Apple laptop, past or present. The 13" MacBook that you appear to be alluding to supports 4K external monitors.