You mean our over-regulated country, right? Have you any idea how large is the mountain of regulation that governs wireless carriers? You could not read all of them in a lifetime.
There is no such thing as too much profit. Such a statement is asinine.
It is not technically possible for all handsets to work on all carriers. The way the phones communicate with the towers is different between the carriers. (GSM v. CDMA, etc..)
The only way to make all handsets work on all carriers is to eliminate competition in chipsets and the mountains of valuable IP licensing behind them, and I don't see how that is helping a competitive market to flourish.
What really needs to happen is quite simple. The answer is less regulation, not more. Regulation is what drives prices higher, not the lack of it. It costs about $1.15-1.25 million to erect a single cell tower. $150-250k of that is the cost of the actual hardware, and the remaining $1M is spent on legal fees to satisfy all the little fiefs that come out of the pissant local government woodwork to get their piece.
Federal preemption of local regulations regarding tower placement (which is less regulation) would cut the cost of building out new towers by 80%. If cell companies were allowed to build the towers wherever they needed to be to make the network function properly, as opposed to wherever they have to be to generate the fewest NIMBY complaints, not only would service be much cheaper, but it would work a lot better.
The power company, water company, sewer company, and other utilities have right of way to put stuff wherever it needs to be to make the system work for everyone. Cell phone companies should enjoy the same preemption against local zoning, and should be granted whatever easements on private land are required to make the system work.
THAT is what would make cell service more affordable.
Even if it is not a PC, it is still a computer. It has a processor, memory, storage, runs an operating system along with user-level applications. It is just as much a computer as your PC.
I used to use Rain-X anti-fog on the inside of my windshield, and the only result was that the water condensed into larger droplets, ran down the windshield behind the dashboard, and caused mold. My insurance company had to total the car because of the health hazard.
This is precisely correct. There is a reasonable expectation of privacy in nonpublic communications directly between users (same goes for email, snail mail, etc). This triggers the requirement for a warrant, which itself requires a clear presentation of probable cause that the subject is involved in criminal activity.
1MW for 100ns is only 0.1W average power, BUT, the insane discharge current probably heats the capacitors up, so depending on how much, they may need cooling time. Caps can have very low ESR, but thermal dissipation goes with the square of current, so insane charge and discharge currents will cause them to blow up if their temperature is not managed properly.
A very correct statement, which is why I do not assume that my data is backed up just because I have some level of fault tolerance in my hardware. I hope we don't need to have _that_ debate for the billionth time on slashdot.:)
Your friend is in that tiny tiny number of students I was talking about in my OP - she was likely brilliant before attending, and simply used what info was made available to her to achieve. Applause to that.
You're also right that they probably couldn't make you Pixar material. But, you KNOW that. A lot of people who get sucked into these places have no idea that they simply don't have what it takes.
I bought 8TB of storage over the weekend for $300. You can get what, 120GB of SSD storage for that? I use 6TB of it (RAID5) so if one fails, I'll live.
Can't beat that value proposition with SSDs at the moment. Also, as process sizes continue to shrink, PE endurance is only getting worse. A good hard disk will last 10 years in normal use. I doubt we'll ever see an SSD last that long.
DeVry is STEEP for an ABET-T accredited program. One could go to a State school and obtain an ABET-E Engineering degree for a LOT less than the cost of DeVry.
What these colleges have over the State schools; however, is the complete lack of selectivity. They will let just about anyone in, and it'll be up to them to sink or swim. Most of them sink, and some of them swim, and I have no doubt that a very small percentage of bright people, who are otherwise inadmissible to a State School due to circumstances not related to their academic performance, do very well for themselves. That's a tiny tiny percentage though.
It's not all bad, but the lack of selectivity means most students will fail, and do so owing a lot of money. It's not entirely the school's fault. They should, however, raise the admission standards at least a little bit.
>> When you do, though, don't forget to remove the metal shell on the old drive and cook it in the microwave for a minute or two to destroy your old data.
That's a great way to contaminate your microwave with all kinds of toxic chemicals that will later get into your food.
The judge went out of his way to say that it was not the phone that caused him to rule for the defendant, but rather that it was the prosecution's complete lack of any supporting evidence.
The headline should be "Judge acquits speeder for lack of evidence. Defendant's GPS data immaterial"
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You mean our over-regulated country, right? Have you any idea how large is the mountain of regulation that governs wireless carriers? You could not read all of them in a lifetime.
There is no such thing as too much profit. Such a statement is asinine.
It is not technically possible for all handsets to work on all carriers. The way the phones communicate with the towers is different between the carriers. (GSM v. CDMA, etc..)
The only way to make all handsets work on all carriers is to eliminate competition in chipsets and the mountains of valuable IP licensing behind them, and I don't see how that is helping a competitive market to flourish.
What really needs to happen is quite simple. The answer is less regulation, not more. Regulation is what drives prices higher, not the lack of it. It costs about $1.15-1.25 million to erect a single cell tower. $150-250k of that is the cost of the actual hardware, and the remaining $1M is spent on legal fees to satisfy all the little fiefs that come out of the pissant local government woodwork to get their piece.
Federal preemption of local regulations regarding tower placement (which is less regulation) would cut the cost of building out new towers by 80%. If cell companies were allowed to build the towers wherever they needed to be to make the network function properly, as opposed to wherever they have to be to generate the fewest NIMBY complaints, not only would service be much cheaper, but it would work a lot better.
The power company, water company, sewer company, and other utilities have right of way to put stuff wherever it needs to be to make the system work for everyone. Cell phone companies should enjoy the same preemption against local zoning, and should be granted whatever easements on private land are required to make the system work.
THAT is what would make cell service more affordable.
So you are saying that making a profit is bad?
There is no doubt a lot of government money that will now be thrown at whomever can scream "FUD" the loudest in the next few years...
Even if it is not a PC, it is still a computer. It has a processor, memory, storage, runs an operating system along with user-level applications. It is just as much a computer as your PC.
I used to use Rain-X anti-fog on the inside of my windshield, and the only result was that the water condensed into larger droplets, ran down the windshield behind the dashboard, and caused mold. My insurance company had to total the car because of the health hazard.
Reducing from 32 to 15 is not a 50% reduction.
Sorry, Scott. Dreams of Utopia are just dreams.
I suppose the government is going to start coming after all the meteorites.
I wonder if he uses credit cards... debit cards, or hold his money in a bank...
This is precisely correct. There is a reasonable expectation of privacy in nonpublic communications directly between users (same goes for email, snail mail, etc). This triggers the requirement for a warrant, which itself requires a clear presentation of probable cause that the subject is involved in criminal activity.
There's an app for that!
Nuff said...
1MW for 100ns is only 0.1W average power, BUT, the insane discharge current probably heats the capacitors up, so depending on how much, they may need cooling time. Caps can have very low ESR, but thermal dissipation goes with the square of current, so insane charge and discharge currents will cause them to blow up if their temperature is not managed properly.
>> Raid is not a backup, FYI
A very correct statement, which is why I do not assume that my data is backed up just because I have some level of fault tolerance in my hardware. I hope we don't need to have _that_ debate for the billionth time on slashdot. :)
Your friend is in that tiny tiny number of students I was talking about in my OP - she was likely brilliant before attending, and simply used what info was made available to her to achieve. Applause to that.
You're also right that they probably couldn't make you Pixar material. But, you KNOW that. A lot of people who get sucked into these places have no idea that they simply don't have what it takes.
HDDs are NOT going away any time soon.
I bought 8TB of storage over the weekend for $300. You can get what, 120GB of SSD storage for that? I use 6TB of it (RAID5) so if one fails, I'll live.
Can't beat that value proposition with SSDs at the moment. Also, as process sizes continue to shrink, PE endurance is only getting worse. A good hard disk will last 10 years in normal use. I doubt we'll ever see an SSD last that long.
DeVry is STEEP for an ABET-T accredited program. One could go to a State school and obtain an ABET-E Engineering degree for a LOT less than the cost of DeVry.
What these colleges have over the State schools; however, is the complete lack of selectivity. They will let just about anyone in, and it'll be up to them to sink or swim. Most of them sink, and some of them swim, and I have no doubt that a very small percentage of bright people, who are otherwise inadmissible to a State School due to circumstances not related to their academic performance, do very well for themselves. That's a tiny tiny percentage though.
It's not all bad, but the lack of selectivity means most students will fail, and do so owing a lot of money. It's not entirely the school's fault. They should, however, raise the admission standards at least a little bit.
They're talking about trading at picosecond resolution, not picosecond speed.
>> When you do, though, don't forget to remove the metal shell on the old drive and cook it in the microwave for a minute or two to destroy your old data.
That's a great way to contaminate your microwave with all kinds of toxic chemicals that will later get into your food.
Current write cycles are nowhere near 1E6. 34nm flash is good for 3000-5000 PE cycles, and 22nm flash is good for between 1000-2000.
You need to go to the OCZ Technology Forums and get the MAC and Linux tools for updating OCZ Firmware.
A metaphor is when you put one thing in terms of another to create understanding.
The computer recycle bin is a functional container into which files are placed to be recycled later into disk space that can be used again.
Seems to me it's actually a recycle bin, not a metaphor for one.
The judge went out of his way to say that it was not the phone that caused him to rule for the defendant, but rather that it was the prosecution's complete lack of any supporting evidence.
The headline should be "Judge acquits speeder for lack of evidence. Defendant's GPS data immaterial"
... from the last 5 or 6 times it was posted to Slashdot.