With the help of vectoring, G.fast also works over multiple copper lines at the same time. Vectoring already improves the performance of VDSL2 to 100Mbps over existing copper connections at up to 400 meters by removing crosstalk interference.
OK, so, 100 Mbps at the scale of a block is the real point here. Well, 100 Mbps would be a huge upgrade from my current cable speeds.
To me, 1 Gb at 100 yards sounds like the answer to a backwards question: "how close would we have to get to hit the benchmark speed of 1 gigabit?" (That is, unless a very cheap repeater can be easily spliced in to the copper).
If you fly commercial air flights, you already trust your life to most of the technologies involved. As the article mentions, "larger aircraft have autopilot systems that can control takeoff, ascent, cruising, descent, approach, and landing."
Flying is the ultimate in trusting technology, even before the autopilot. You are suspended in the air by nothing but the reliability of the engines to keep you from dropping 30,000 feet into the middle of the Pacific ocean, thousands of miles from any help. The fact that we amazingly no longer even perceive this as "technology" just shows how trustworthy technology can become, over many decades.
I'll miss Santa Cruz and The coast line and hills more than anything else.
But I know, there are plenty of those places left unspoiled all across the coast.
Eh, what coast would that be? Here is what Mt Everest looks like near the peak these days.
Well, I can tell you that no amount of computation will help for a one-time pad. That would be essentially the same as decrypting an empty sheet of paper. There is no information in either half of an OTP duo; only in the differences between the halves.
Offhand it seems like it would be easier to produce a child from one parent (a clone) than from two women or two men, since in that case there is no essential difference between what each partner brings to the table.
Right or wrong, the blackmailer evidently at least thought bitcoin would be harder to trace than cash, because otherwise he would have demanded cash. It would certainly be easier to spend. The resulting discussion about the blackmailer's (erroneous) assumptions, such as your post, are interesting, pertinent to slashdot, and not particularly political.
The XBox One Kinect produces massively more data than the first generation, starting with the upgrade from VGA to 1080p video. USB 2 must have added quite a bit of latency to the XBox 360 Kinect, and isn't even an option for the XBox One.
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That's your own germline DNA. But it would be cool to get the distinct sequences of all the cells in your body. Most of those cells (by count, not mass) are various microorganisms, lots in your gut, or infections that are making you sick or wearing down your immune system, or a latent conditions like HIV or HPV, and you would see the evolution of a few strains of precancerous / cancerous cells evolving too. Taken altogether that would be a huge amount of DNA. But I guess a lot of the distinct genomes are localized and you couldn't sample them easily.
Wow, if you're going to be that simplistic, then you are a hypocrite for believing simultaneously that "people are hypocrites" and "people are not hypocrites." I mean, it would be outright hypocritical to divide people into groups and judge them based on their individual merits, wouldn't it?
Why are people assuming the Windows and XBox One versions will differ only in connector?
Kinect 1 was an add-on for the XBox 360. That means everything particular to Kinect had to be in the Kinect itself, for example some video processing capability. USB, after all, is a sucky interface for video transfer, and the XBox 360 had no particular capability to do the processing required by Kinect anyways.
Kinect 2 is an integrated component of XBox One, so more of its processing is almost certainly offloaded into the GPU or other components of the XBox One console. Surely this will be cheaper than having separate (and substantial) RAM and processing inside the Kinect. But obviously the Kinect for PCs cannot take the same approach.
Granted, I have no direct knowledge and am just reasoning this out. But if you're designing the console and sensor together it's hard to imagine it won't be cheaper to have a deeper integration of computing resources needed.
Baloney. There is a reason the guy demanded bitcoin instead of USD that has nothing to do with politics, it is due to the technical aspects of bitcoin, namely the fact that it is designed to be untraceable and facilitate anonymous transactions. All made possible (again, UNLIKE conventional currencies) entirely by the Internet and encryption. Slashdot is about nothing if not the double-edged nature of each advance in technology.
So if we JUST put roughly 30 of the Tianhe-2s or 500,000 nodes with 100,000,000 computing cores in one big system, we'd have our exascale computer!
Actually, no, that's the problem/challenge... linking 30 Tianhe-2s would make a supercomputer that is only slightly faster than a single Tianhe-2, because the cores would mainly be sitting idle due to communication latency. Granted this is not true for computations that are completely parallel (e.g. cracking passwords) but that is NOT what "exaflop" means; it means an exaflop on a scientific computing benchmark.
Not sure what you meant by HSPA+/LTE towers fed by T1's - did you mean fed by the satellite network? That is what I would assume they will do. The problem is there is no backbone to hook the towers to, right?
I suppose they're smart enough to put the recorder into some sort of utility rather than the driver per se. But hopefully it is using GPU hardware to do video compression, in which case most of the execution time probably is in the driver anyways.
Too Much is too much, and Too Little is too little, whereas somewhere in between (although I can't say where) is Just Right. I've discovered this amazing formula applies not only to taxes, but one or two other things in life. Don't you see the brilliance?
The Boston attack isn't even relevant to the topic of national security. I realize it was horrible for the dozens of people personally affected, but it is really not possible to fashion a security mesh fine enough to filter out something of this scale (one or two dudes with what amounts to pipe bombs) yet large enough to cover the nation. Not even in a full occupation, like the Nazis in France during WWII, could they prevent things of that scale.
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Preventing the next 9/11, on the other hand, may be possible. And here is the problem: We The People will be infinitely more upset if that occurs, than we are about being spied upon and lied to by our own government. And they know that.
But why? When the PS3's came out with its cell processor, it was very unique and unlike any other processor available. The AMD processor in the Playstation 3 (and XBox One) is just a garden-variety commodity part.
Yes. Although fossil fuel will probably get more expensive over time, so the savings may simply result in less price increase than would otherwise have occurred.
I certainly agree with your point. But if the former Soviets you know don't live there anymore, it is a self-selected sample of people who disliked it enough to leave.
I would imagine most jobs paying $200K are in areas where $200K does't go as far as it would in other places. It is somewhat arbitrary to look at a dollar figure without looking at what it will cost you to live within a reasonable distance of said job.
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OK, so, 100 Mbps at the scale of a block is the real point here. Well, 100 Mbps would be a huge upgrade from my current cable speeds.
To me, 1 Gb at 100 yards sounds like the answer to a backwards question: "how close would we have to get to hit the benchmark speed of 1 gigabit?" (That is, unless a very cheap repeater can be easily spliced in to the copper).
Flying is the ultimate in trusting technology, even before the autopilot. You are suspended in the air by nothing but the reliability of the engines to keep you from dropping 30,000 feet into the middle of the Pacific ocean, thousands of miles from any help. The fact that we amazingly no longer even perceive this as "technology" just shows how trustworthy technology can become, over many decades.
Eh, what coast would that be? Here is what Mt Everest looks like near the peak these days.
Well, I can tell you that no amount of computation will help for a one-time pad. That would be essentially the same as decrypting an empty sheet of paper. There is no information in either half of an OTP duo; only in the differences between the halves.
Offhand it seems like it would be easier to produce a child from one parent (a clone) than from two women or two men, since in that case there is no essential difference between what each partner brings to the table.
You made me curious so I googled it: TechInsights' teardown uncovered within Kinect a Marvell PXA 168 applications processor.
Right or wrong, the blackmailer evidently at least thought bitcoin would be harder to trace than cash, because otherwise he would have demanded cash. It would certainly be easier to spend. The resulting discussion about the blackmailer's (erroneous) assumptions, such as your post, are interesting, pertinent to slashdot, and not particularly political.
The XBox One Kinect produces massively more data than the first generation, starting with the upgrade from VGA to 1080p video. USB 2 must have added quite a bit of latency to the XBox 360 Kinect, and isn't even an option for the XBox One.
That's your own germline DNA. But it would be cool to get the distinct sequences of all the cells in your body. Most of those cells (by count, not mass) are various microorganisms, lots in your gut, or infections that are making you sick or wearing down your immune system, or a latent conditions like HIV or HPV, and you would see the evolution of a few strains of precancerous / cancerous cells evolving too. Taken altogether that would be a huge amount of DNA. But I guess a lot of the distinct genomes are localized and you couldn't sample them easily.
Wow, if you're going to be that simplistic, then you are a hypocrite for believing simultaneously that "people are hypocrites" and "people are not hypocrites." I mean, it would be outright hypocritical to divide people into groups and judge them based on their individual merits, wouldn't it?
Kinect 1 was an add-on for the XBox 360. That means everything particular to Kinect had to be in the Kinect itself, for example some video processing capability. USB, after all, is a sucky interface for video transfer, and the XBox 360 had no particular capability to do the processing required by Kinect anyways.
Kinect 2 is an integrated component of XBox One, so more of its processing is almost certainly offloaded into the GPU or other components of the XBox One console. Surely this will be cheaper than having separate (and substantial) RAM and processing inside the Kinect. But obviously the Kinect for PCs cannot take the same approach.
Granted, I have no direct knowledge and am just reasoning this out. But if you're designing the console and sensor together it's hard to imagine it won't be cheaper to have a deeper integration of computing resources needed.
Baloney. There is a reason the guy demanded bitcoin instead of USD that has nothing to do with politics, it is due to the technical aspects of bitcoin, namely the fact that it is designed to be untraceable and facilitate anonymous transactions. All made possible (again, UNLIKE conventional currencies) entirely by the Internet and encryption. Slashdot is about nothing if not the double-edged nature of each advance in technology.
Actually, no, that's the problem/challenge... linking 30 Tianhe-2s would make a supercomputer that is only slightly faster than a single Tianhe-2, because the cores would mainly be sitting idle due to communication latency. Granted this is not true for computations that are completely parallel (e.g. cracking passwords) but that is NOT what "exaflop" means; it means an exaflop on a scientific computing benchmark.
Not sure what you meant by HSPA+/LTE towers fed by T1's - did you mean fed by the satellite network? That is what I would assume they will do. The problem is there is no backbone to hook the towers to, right?
I suppose they're smart enough to put the recorder into some sort of utility rather than the driver per se. But hopefully it is using GPU hardware to do video compression, in which case most of the execution time probably is in the driver anyways.
Too Much is too much, and Too Little is too little, whereas somewhere in between (although I can't say where) is Just Right. I've discovered this amazing formula applies not only to taxes, but one or two other things in life. Don't you see the brilliance?
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Preventing the next 9/11, on the other hand, may be possible. And here is the problem: We The People will be infinitely more upset if that occurs, than we are about being spied upon and lied to by our own government. And they know that.
But why? When the PS3's came out with its cell processor, it was very unique and unlike any other processor available. The AMD processor in the Playstation 3 (and XBox One) is just a garden-variety commodity part.
Yes. Although fossil fuel will probably get more expensive over time, so the savings may simply result in less price increase than would otherwise have occurred.
I think it was a joke. IQ is normed to 100, so half the people have double-digit IQs by definition.
You can say that without it even crossing your mind that maybe they know something you don't?
I certainly agree with your point. But if the former Soviets you know don't live there anymore, it is a self-selected sample of people who disliked it enough to leave.
Many of them will migrate. To here, for instance.
I would imagine most jobs paying $200K are in areas where $200K does't go as far as it would in other places. It is somewhat arbitrary to look at a dollar figure without looking at what it will cost you to live within a reasonable distance of said job.
How do you get started in that field? Do most of them have a financial background with some computer science, or the reverse?