That's a very good point. Most cheap home routers use slow processors that cannot handle the throughput being offered in modern Internet services. Fortunately, Verizon provides a decent router that can.
It's unreasonable to expect to get top-tier performance out of the bottom-tier hardware. Yet, that is precisely what most consumers expect. When they are disappointed, it turns into "fraud" or "lies" by the ISP, when it really is just consumer ignorance.
What you are talking about has been in process for a long time. Light Sport Aircraft are available to fly by anyone with a drivers license and the necessary 20 hours of training. Light Sport Aircraft are as efficient or more efficient than cars in terms of fuel economy. This is because LSAs are limited to 100 horsepower, unlike cars which the market demands have 5 trillion horsepower in them, and because of better aerodynamics.
A typical LSA will cruise at about 110kts (135MPH) and use 4-5 gallons per hour for somewhere around 25-35 MPG. I don't know of any cars that can get that kind of economy at that speed.
The ATC system is also going through some monumental improvements that will make air traffic control much easier on everyone. Once ADS-B is fully deployed, every aircraft will transmit its exact GPS location and altitude to every other aircraft nearby and to ground stations, eliminating both the need for and the inaccuracies of radar.
If Amtrak can't even compete with the airlines, then what do you think the answer to the question is?
I just checked a flight vs. rail for a round trip from here to Atlanta, and Amtrak is only $20 cheaper than the airline ticket, and the trip takes 14 hours longer each way.
I hate to think of how much money a high-speed rail system would lose in the US. The government already has to bail out Amtrak year after year after year to the tune of several billion dollars. There's absolutely no economic reason or justification for continuing our current rail system, let alone spending a trillion dollars to build out a nationwide high speed rail system that will cost 5 times as much to use as a commercial airline, and still take longer and be less convenient.
If this is the same "Harris Interactive" that spams me 100x per week with polls to gather personally identifiable information from me for marketing purposes, then I'd say the "study" is probably bunk.
"While I totally agree that overdiagnosis of ADHD is a problem, it would be kinder if folks here would recognize that for some people, ADHD it really is an important component of the problem and getting treatment can help them get on their way."
I don't think anyone here has said that ADHD does not exist or that all diagnoses of ADHD are false.
Amen to that. Ditto here. Thankfully my folks saw the real issue and put me in a private school that actually challenged me when I was very young. When I went into 4th grade, we had moved and for economic reasons had to go to public school. It was like going back 3 years. I had been learning algebra and geometry in 3rd grade at the private school, and the public school was still teaching multiplication and division in 4th grade. I did every homework problem in the book in one week and got them all right.
The public school did not have a track for accelerated learning, and the principal and school psychologist thought it would be bad for me to attend classes with students that were 4 years older, so I was forced to sit around and twiddle my thumbs for 3 years while everyone else caught up.
I wonder how many millions of children we do this to every year. We're so preoccupied with "fairness" and, as you said, catering to the LCD that we are completely failing the high achievers. Then again, we've also developed into a culture of envy where high achievement is viciously attacked and discouraged.
I hear about it frequently from a couple of friends of mine who are school psychologists. Parents come in with misbehaving kids looking for drugs to calm them down and make them more obedient - basically a pharmaceutical cure for their bad parenting.
We have an entire generation of kids who are being tagged ADHD when there is nothing wrong with them because parents don't want to deal with the responsibility of raising them, or because the parents have heard that Ritalin will make them get better grades, or for some other reason that has nothing to do with the behavioral health of the child.
I have Verizon Fios. I pay for 25/25 and that's what I get, if not more. There have been times when I've sustained 35Mbps for an entire Ubuntu torrent download...
I would imagine that with the ludicrous speeds being made available, most "slowness" is likely to be because of poorly configured customer equipment rather than wide-scale "lying" by the ISP.
Is it just because I'm old? I just don't understand the need to constantly tell the world what we're doing every second of the day. Is it the instant feedback people crave? The constant pats on the back and attaboys from friends? The need for approval among our peers for everything we do? What?
The failure mode that everyone is worried about is exceeding the write endurance rating of the NAND, which you cannot accelerate by buying more drives. You just have to wait... and wait... and wait some more...
I have a 60GB MLC in my system that is fine and happy after 2 years... I'm still waiting for the sky to fall.
The new sandforce controllers pretty much eliminate most of the problems with NAND endurance to date, so I don't expect the HDDs will outlive the SSDs any longer.
Don't you get it? Things can never change. Any deviation from what we expect means there is a calamity brewing that needs a billion dollars to be thrown at it so that it can be understood.
The Human Race is emotionally incapable of dealing with change.
I use a bicycle tire pump to fill my airplane tires and I've never had a problem with oxidizing the inwall. Then again, I typically touch down at only 50kts or so...
Computer peripheral manufacturers have gotten to be like furniture stores.
The company runs long enough to obtain lines of credit. The owners then give themselves huge raises and pay themselves gobs-o-cash drawing on those credit lines. The owners invest some of their personal money and set up a new business with a new name. The old business, being drowned in all of this new debt, declares bankruptcy and the new business purchases the inventory and assets for pennies on the dollar. Then the new business opens up without any of the liabilities of the old business.
I worked for a furniture store in high school for 2 years and in that time, they cycled it 3 or 4 times. About every 6 months they'd have a big "going out of business" sale, then reopen 2 weeks later under a new name. The furniture that remained never left the building. I'd spend those 2 weeks of downtime replacing all the price tags and signage to reflect the new business name.
I can definitely relate to that one. I've never had one that didn't try to deviate from plan to increase their profit on the job. I've even seen them put breakers in a panel that weren't connected to anything to make it appear as if they ran the circuit, when all they did was piggyback a circuit on another one to save the cost of running the wire. By the time you find the problem, they're long gone.
Gotta watch them like a hawk and make sure they do everything they're supposed to do.
If you spend all your time worrying about "preserving her memory" instead of enjoying and getting the most out of your time left with her, you will regret it for the rest of your life. I've had two friends lose their spouses to cancer and they both made the same mistake. They got so caught up in "I gotta record this!" and "oh wait I have to get the camera!" and all that, they ruined all of those special moments by reminding themselves of what was coming.
My advice: live the moments while you're in them. Don't ruin them by trying to save them for later.
I just gave all of my Star Wars tapes and DVDs to Good Will because I never watch them anymore and have ZERO interest in them. I'm certainly not going to waste money on these...
WTF is wrong with us? I have no idea. We could solve the obesity, medical care, air quality, and many other problems in one fell swoop. If employers would simply provide the infrastructure (such as bike racks, showers, and locker rooms), it would be much much easier.
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That's a very good point. Most cheap home routers use slow processors that cannot handle the throughput being offered in modern Internet services. Fortunately, Verizon provides a decent router that can.
It's unreasonable to expect to get top-tier performance out of the bottom-tier hardware. Yet, that is precisely what most consumers expect. When they are disappointed, it turns into "fraud" or "lies" by the ISP, when it really is just consumer ignorance.
What you are talking about has been in process for a long time. Light Sport Aircraft are available to fly by anyone with a drivers license and the necessary 20 hours of training. Light Sport Aircraft are as efficient or more efficient than cars in terms of fuel economy. This is because LSAs are limited to 100 horsepower, unlike cars which the market demands have 5 trillion horsepower in them, and because of better aerodynamics.
A typical LSA will cruise at about 110kts (135MPH) and use 4-5 gallons per hour for somewhere around 25-35 MPG. I don't know of any cars that can get that kind of economy at that speed.
The ATC system is also going through some monumental improvements that will make air traffic control much easier on everyone. Once ADS-B is fully deployed, every aircraft will transmit its exact GPS location and altitude to every other aircraft nearby and to ground stations, eliminating both the need for and the inaccuracies of radar.
"Train lines only run from here you aren't to where you don't need to be."
Holy crap, if that's not MARTA in a sentence I don't know what is.
If Amtrak can't even compete with the airlines, then what do you think the answer to the question is?
I just checked a flight vs. rail for a round trip from here to Atlanta, and Amtrak is only $20 cheaper than the airline ticket, and the trip takes 14 hours longer each way.
I hate to think of how much money a high-speed rail system would lose in the US. The government already has to bail out Amtrak year after year after year to the tune of several billion dollars. There's absolutely no economic reason or justification for continuing our current rail system, let alone spending a trillion dollars to build out a nationwide high speed rail system that will cost 5 times as much to use as a commercial airline, and still take longer and be less convenient.
"according to Harris Interactive."
If this is the same "Harris Interactive" that spams me 100x per week with polls to gather personally identifiable information from me for marketing purposes, then I'd say the "study" is probably bunk.
"While I totally agree that overdiagnosis of ADHD is a problem, it would be kinder if folks here would recognize that for some people, ADHD it really is an important component of the problem and getting treatment can help them get on their way."
I don't think anyone here has said that ADHD does not exist or that all diagnoses of ADHD are false.
Amen to that. Ditto here. Thankfully my folks saw the real issue and put me in a private school that actually challenged me when I was very young. When I went into 4th grade, we had moved and for economic reasons had to go to public school. It was like going back 3 years. I had been learning algebra and geometry in 3rd grade at the private school, and the public school was still teaching multiplication and division in 4th grade. I did every homework problem in the book in one week and got them all right.
The public school did not have a track for accelerated learning, and the principal and school psychologist thought it would be bad for me to attend classes with students that were 4 years older, so I was forced to sit around and twiddle my thumbs for 3 years while everyone else caught up.
I wonder how many millions of children we do this to every year. We're so preoccupied with "fairness" and, as you said, catering to the LCD that we are completely failing the high achievers. Then again, we've also developed into a culture of envy where high achievement is viciously attacked and discouraged.
I hear about it frequently from a couple of friends of mine who are school psychologists. Parents come in with misbehaving kids looking for drugs to calm them down and make them more obedient - basically a pharmaceutical cure for their bad parenting.
We have an entire generation of kids who are being tagged ADHD when there is nothing wrong with them because parents don't want to deal with the responsibility of raising them, or because the parents have heard that Ritalin will make them get better grades, or for some other reason that has nothing to do with the behavioral health of the child.
I have Verizon Fios. I pay for 25/25 and that's what I get, if not more. There have been times when I've sustained 35Mbps for an entire Ubuntu torrent download...
I would imagine that with the ludicrous speeds being made available, most "slowness" is likely to be because of poorly configured customer equipment rather than wide-scale "lying" by the ISP.
Lower Merion is not in Philadelphia. It is a township in Montgomery county a few miles west of Philadelphia.
But he's a big, evil CEO of a big, evil corporation in the big, evil United States! Burn him in effigy! No wait! Burn him at the stake!
No no no. You have to have both!
Is it just because I'm old? I just don't understand the need to constantly tell the world what we're doing every second of the day. Is it the instant feedback people crave? The constant pats on the back and attaboys from friends? The need for approval among our peers for everything we do? What?
I just don't get it.
>> This is akin to mandating braille on the Mona Lisa.
Don't give them any ideas.
9 Women can't have a baby in a month.
The failure mode that everyone is worried about is exceeding the write endurance rating of the NAND, which you cannot accelerate by buying more drives. You just have to wait... and wait... and wait some more...
I have a 60GB MLC in my system that is fine and happy after 2 years... I'm still waiting for the sky to fall.
The new sandforce controllers pretty much eliminate most of the problems with NAND endurance to date, so I don't expect the HDDs will outlive the SSDs any longer.
Don't you get it? Things can never change. Any deviation from what we expect means there is a calamity brewing that needs a billion dollars to be thrown at it so that it can be understood.
The Human Race is emotionally incapable of dealing with change.
I use a bicycle tire pump to fill my airplane tires and I've never had a problem with oxidizing the inwall. Then again, I typically touch down at only 50kts or so...
Computer peripheral manufacturers have gotten to be like furniture stores.
The company runs long enough to obtain lines of credit. The owners then give themselves huge raises and pay themselves gobs-o-cash drawing on those credit lines. The owners invest some of their personal money and set up a new business with a new name. The old business, being drowned in all of this new debt, declares bankruptcy and the new business purchases the inventory and assets for pennies on the dollar. Then the new business opens up without any of the liabilities of the old business.
I worked for a furniture store in high school for 2 years and in that time, they cycled it 3 or 4 times. About every 6 months they'd have a big "going out of business" sale, then reopen 2 weeks later under a new name. The furniture that remained never left the building. I'd spend those 2 weeks of downtime replacing all the price tags and signage to reflect the new business name.
Here's the thought process
1) Wifi manufacturers have deep pockets
2) Invent illness
3) Blame on Wifi
4) Sue wifi manufacturers
I can definitely relate to that one. I've never had one that didn't try to deviate from plan to increase their profit on the job. I've even seen them put breakers in a panel that weren't connected to anything to make it appear as if they ran the circuit, when all they did was piggyback a circuit on another one to save the cost of running the wire. By the time you find the problem, they're long gone.
Gotta watch them like a hawk and make sure they do everything they're supposed to do.
If you spend all your time worrying about "preserving her memory" instead of enjoying and getting the most out of your time left with her, you will regret it for the rest of your life. I've had two friends lose their spouses to cancer and they both made the same mistake. They got so caught up in "I gotta record this!" and "oh wait I have to get the camera!" and all that, they ruined all of those special moments by reminding themselves of what was coming.
My advice: live the moments while you're in them. Don't ruin them by trying to save them for later.
I just gave all of my Star Wars tapes and DVDs to Good Will because I never watch them anymore and have ZERO interest in them. I'm certainly not going to waste money on these...
WTF is wrong with us? I have no idea. We could solve the obesity, medical care, air quality, and many other problems in one fell swoop. If employers would simply provide the infrastructure (such as bike racks, showers, and locker rooms), it would be much much easier.
And you would have lower blood pressure...
And you would have lower cholesterol...
And you would have fewer and lower medical bills...
And you would live longer...
And...
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