I'm not so sure the future is wireless. Cat 5 is just so fast, so cheap, so reliable, not to mention secure. For new construction, it would just be silly not to lay down Cat 5 if not fiber.
You must be in possession of that mythical toaster that actually produces consistently browned slices, whether or not it's already warmed up. And has presets for bagels, brown, and white bread. Personally I can easily see applications for computers in cooking things. Haven't you ever burned something, or baked something that came out doughy in the middle?
Can you use it to drive windows only USB devices from a Linux host? (i.e. set up a windows guest and share the printer, then mout it under Linux with Samba.) This is my favorite capability of VMWare, unfortunately it is too expensive for home use.
As a current VMWare user, I would be very interested if you could compare VMWare to QEmu.
VMWare is a very good product, but here are my complaints:
1) being closed source, it lags behind the kernel releases sometimes.
2) it seems to run in kernel mode all the time, so isn't a very polite multitasker.
3) the cost prevents me from using it at home.
That said, I'm sometimes surprised at things VMWare can do, like drive windows-only USB devices from a linux host. And the set of virtual devices it provides, such as ethernet interfaces and sound support, is impressive too.
That tells us how it works, doesn't it? It must set up traps so that things that need to be emulated are caught, and then directly execute the code that would otherwise be emulated.
If so, it isn't an emulator and "near native on some code" performance isn't a big deal - about the same as VMWare.
Hopefully it really is an emulator, and the accelerator simply hasn't been written for other platforms yet.
If the claim were true, and could run even graphical apps decently fast, Intel should throw a couple million bucks at this guy for the fastest possible X86 on IA64 emulation - they need it.
For problems that can be decomposed and run in parallel, you can always use those extra transistors to make more processors (or more cores per processor). I assume checking billions of crypto keys can be done in parallel.
It's a bit hard for me to sympathize when I can pop a $0.49 blank into a $69 writer and make my own DVD any day of the week.
I'm not actually advocating Blockbuster burning its own CDs, just pointing out that the physical media itself is extremely cheap. (So cheap that DIVX tried to make a business of "renting" by selling self-destructing discs.) If people are leaving the video store empty-handed (or with a $0.99 old release), both the rental store and the studios are losing money. If the studios' pricing scheme to rental stores is causing this situation, both would profit by fixing it.
There's no indication that any animals were harmed in the process, and there's no mention whether there is any lasting damage, or if the proceedure is reversable.
But we can intuit something from the fact that they used monkeys rather than people in the first place.
Why should we put computer security above getting the job done? I hear a lot more hot air about "Digital Pearl Harbors" and computer security D-minuses than I do real world problems. Sure the occasional virus costs a supposed X million dollars in repairs, but nobody bothers to calculate how that compares to the cost of preventing such things. Sure it would be fun to sit around and make sure our computers are safe all day, but at some point you have to do something with them.
The question isn't whether better computer security would be nice, but whether it's worth the cost.
Ultimately, it's HOW you raise your children, not whether one of the parents stays at home or not. I know several families where the mother stays home and the kids are absolute animals.
As others have said, you can influence them, but they still have free will. There are many families with several great kids and one or two bad apples. It happens.
Were they 33 separate incidents, or was he convicted once on 33 counts of theft because they found a bunch of stuff in his shed, or what? At only 19 I doubt he could have been convicted 33 separate times if he tried.
A reasonable line must be drawn somewhere. Otherwise some loon will start shooting kids who use his property as a shortcut on the way to school. (And if you think that's just fine, don't even bother saying so, because it isn't.)
Good point, I had been thinking about it in economic terms. But there are privacy / security issues too. Once everybody is helping pay for something, they tend to feel justified in exerting some control.
The main point of infrastructure isn't the jobs created by building the infrastructure, it's all the new business enabled by the functionality of the infrastructure.
If we decided to let our freeways fall into disrepair, sure, a few freeway construction workers would lose their jobs, but the real crippling effect on the economy would be the skyrocketing cost of transporting things, which would hit every industry hard.
Courts aren't going to help you with that at all. The copyright on information belongs to the writer, not the subject of the piece. Just think what your copyright concept would do to the news media...
Oh really? Does that mean I can photograph Coke's trademarks and print them on my own products? Or does Coke in fact "own" that information? If a Coke employee discloses private business information, Coke can sue them to obvlivion, if not send them to jail. If Coke can own its information, why can't I?
The correct assumption is that the traffic is not blocked, but assigned to a low priority class and throttled. Even if this is not being done now, it will be the situation in a year or two.
This is all covered in the article:
the possibility exists that certain types of traffic -- such as Vonage's VoIP services -- could be "blocked"
or otherwise degraded... there is no current law or regulation prohibiting such techniques... but Powell said the FCC might indeed have some enforcement options, specifically if carriers are found to be violating anti-competitive statutes. ...
MCI executive and Internet co-founder Vint Cerf agreed, saying it was bad for everyone if service providers suddenly started discriminating against traffic types by competitive parameters.
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Qwest CEO Richard Notebaert, who also spoke at the conference Monday, said his company has a commercial contract with Vonage. Carrying more application traffic, Notebaert said, was an economic plus for Qwest.
In short, most of the people that matter have made up their minds. People are not oblivious to this issue, and they don't want poor quality VOIP calls due to traffic discrimination - whether complete blocking, throttling, or prioritization. I'm not claiming to predict the future, but the QoS features you refer to could just as easily be used to give a boost to real-time applications like VOIP, rather than degrade them.
You are wrong, there is no tragedy of the commons here. Subscribers ARE *paying* for their bandwidth. They pay their ISP who of course pays their upstream providers. Nobody is uncompensated.
You are also wrong that Vonage is complaining about smaller phone companies not providing enough IP bandwidth; what they are complaining about is ISP's *specifically targeting* and blocking VOIP traffic. Failing to deliver adequate capacity is another matter. There are no real quality of service guarantees in residential service, though no failure could be more grave for an ISP which, after all, has nothing to offer but bandwidth.
Compression is not necessarily a good idea, not if it increases latency.
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I'm not so sure the future is wireless. Cat 5 is just so fast, so cheap, so reliable, not to mention secure. For new construction, it would just be silly not to lay down Cat 5 if not fiber.
Well, I just checked qemu's website and you're right - it does just run x86 application code directly unstead of emulating it.
You must be in possession of that mythical toaster that actually produces consistently browned slices, whether or not it's already warmed up. And has presets for bagels, brown, and white bread. Personally I can easily see applications for computers in cooking things. Haven't you ever burned something, or baked something that came out doughy in the middle?
Can you use it to drive windows only USB devices from a Linux host? (i.e. set up a windows guest and share the printer, then mout it under Linux with Samba.) This is my favorite capability of VMWare, unfortunately it is too expensive for home use.
VMWare is a very good product, but here are my complaints:
1) being closed source, it lags behind the kernel releases sometimes.
2) it seems to run in kernel mode all the time, so isn't a very polite multitasker.
3) the cost prevents me from using it at home.
That said, I'm sometimes surprised at things VMWare can do, like drive windows-only USB devices from a linux host. And the set of virtual devices it provides, such as ethernet interfaces and sound support, is impressive too.
Hopefully it really is an emulator, and the accelerator simply hasn't been written for other platforms yet.
If the claim were true, and could run even graphical apps decently fast, Intel should throw a couple million bucks at this guy for the fastest possible X86 on IA64 emulation - they need it.
Meaning that to more easily attack my encryption key, you'd have to be in a position to choose it in the first place.
For problems that can be decomposed and run in parallel, you can always use those extra transistors to make more processors (or more cores per processor). I assume checking billions of crypto keys can be done in parallel.
I'm not actually advocating Blockbuster burning its own CDs, just pointing out that the physical media itself is extremely cheap. (So cheap that DIVX tried to make a business of "renting" by selling self-destructing discs.) If people are leaving the video store empty-handed (or with a $0.99 old release), both the rental store and the studios are losing money. If the studios' pricing scheme to rental stores is causing this situation, both would profit by fixing it.
I think keeping a deposit equal to the max number of rentals for an account, and doing away with due dates, is a pretty good idea.
I agree it's extreme. They should offer a downloadable bootable CD that verifies the checksums of all system files.
The question isn't whether better computer security would be nice, but whether it's worth the cost.
Were they 33 separate incidents, or was he convicted once on 33 counts of theft because they found a bunch of stuff in his shed, or what? At only 19 I doubt he could have been convicted 33 separate times if he tried.
A reasonable line must be drawn somewhere. Otherwise some loon will start shooting kids who use his property as a shortcut on the way to school. (And if you think that's just fine, don't even bother saying so, because it isn't.)
Good point, I had been thinking about it in economic terms. But there are privacy / security issues too. Once everybody is helping pay for something, they tend to feel justified in exerting some control.
If we decided to let our freeways fall into disrepair, sure, a few freeway construction workers would lose their jobs, but the real crippling effect on the economy would be the skyrocketing cost of transporting things, which would hit every industry hard.
IM latency will be the same as VOIP. Add to that the time it takes to type.
You are also wrong that Vonage is complaining about smaller phone companies not providing enough IP bandwidth; what they are complaining about is ISP's *specifically targeting* and blocking VOIP traffic. Failing to deliver adequate capacity is another matter. There are no real quality of service guarantees in residential service, though no failure could be more grave for an ISP which, after all, has nothing to offer but bandwidth.
Compression is not necessarily a good idea, not if it increases latency.