This is intereresting but not that all unexepected --- Case has always been on the cutting edge of networking technology. I almost ended up going to school there just because they already have ATM Fiber conncetions in all the rooms already (155Mb/sec IIRC). Gigabit ethernet in itself is interesting because I Don't know of any hard drives that can actually move 100 megabytes a second conitinuously, but I'm sure it will catch up one day. I wouldn't be surprised if students started building RAID striping arrays just to get the bandwidth up.
On another note, the article doesn't seem to mention the speed of the actual internet hookup. Anyone know what they have over there? If they haven't upgraded that, then the whole thing won't seem any faster than 10-base-T when using the net.
Everyone is leaving out a very important factor: COST! That's the reason different protocols exist at all. RS-232 is one of the cheapest to implement, many CPUs can take it right in on a chip. Also, it works over long distances (100+ feet), something that firewire, USB 2.0, IDE, etc CAN'T do. The compromise: speed. On a desktop, it's not that bad -- you can drop the distance requirement and crank up the speed, but it takes a more expensive chip. Serial-type busses are still cheaper than trying to integrate an ethernet controller and a processor just to move packets around. Let's not forget that TCP/IP has a LOT of overhead compared to a serial bus, and you don't need routability when you're going from point A to point B. Different applications, different protocols. It's just a matter of cost.
Anyone remember the Apple Desktop Bus back from early days? That was pretty slick in itself. Right idea, but it was just a tad too slow.
Backstreet Boys and N'Sync are extreme examples of the dumb luck phenomenon, because producers found them, threw out a lot of their work, handed them music to sing and sent them on their way to stardom. I think a reference to a particular South Park episode is in order here, where the boys were randomly picked by a producer and became famous overnight.
Audiogalaxy was still the best place to find unknown acts, but of course the record labels killed a good thing. I rather them shut down the P2P networks than audiogalaxy. It seems the newspapers are picking up slack from AG's demise, but they won't be able to be as complete or as nationwide. I don't particularly care if a band is local or not, just if they're good! Unfortunately being a good songwriter is one-in-a-million sort of thing.
Instead of completely blocking access, the best compromise seems to be using Quality of Service software on the server end. I know of several universities that are starting to do this, and it seems to keep everyone happy. Leave all the P2P programs working, but just throttle them back when they interfere with higher priority services.
On another note, P2P programs are simply another aplication of the 20-80 Rule, aka Pareto's Principle where 20% of your users account for 80% of your bandwidth.
A really fun trick is to take one of those 300v guys (make sure it's a low capacitance), charge it up, and toss it to your unsuspecting friend standing across the room. When he catches it... Wham! A afternoon of good fun.
But those little camera caps are chicken feed. Try on a 2700 Farad Capacitor on for size!
While EVs may be producing more pollution by your numbers, there are many other things to consider. EVs run off of electricity that is centrally produced. This is often accomplished more efficently than doing it on a per-car basis. The best part about EVs is that they can take advantage of nuclear power (which is the most environmentally friendly if you contain the waste properly). Now granted, the major problem with EVs is that they have battery disposal problems (lead-acid batteries are difficult to get rid of), but once better battery technology rolls around, EVs just might be the answer. Don't forget that EVs require much fewer auxillary fluids such as engine oil and antifreeze, and they waste much less power in heat compared to their internal combustion counterparts. A typical EV is somewhere between 80-90% efficent from the energy in the pack to the energy in the wheels, where as your BEST internal combustion systems are 30-40% efficent at converting the energy in gas to power at the wheels.
You can skew the numbers any way you want, but the main idea is to get rid of our dependence on oil so the terrorists don't have any more funding!
As we've seen in OS land of late, your OS needs some serious financial backing to get it off the ground. Even linux was just another hobby OS until the big boys got involved. While I'm a fan of BeOS, it seems like its main target market, media applications, is already well-filled by Apple and Microsoft. They also have the additional hurdle of starting several years behind these other mature OS's. If they can overcome these obstacles, then all the more power to them, but at this point it's an uphill battle. Good luck guys.
I see this fight as somewhat analogous to the Macrovision (The copy proection technology that makes copies of tapes fade in and out and make them fairly unwatchable) on VHS some years back. While I'm not familiar with the legal isses surrounding it, I do see the end result -- many video tapes are sold with Macrovision copy protection, and it's not marked anywhere. I can see this being used as a precident in terms of evaluating copy protection on CDs. Is it really worth the fight to prevent copy protected CDs from entering the marketplace? We all know they are fairly easily defeated, and sales of such CDs will suffer once word gets out about their inferior quality, so why bother?
Record companies still aren't using it on very major releases (such as the Eminem Show), which makes me wonder if they are really concerned with this hurting their sales. If so, the market has already spoken.
Whoa there cowboy! It's a BAD assumption to assume that gas mileage is equal to emissions.
It's not.
In ideal combustion, there would be only CO2 and water coming out of the tailpipe. This in itself is harmless. Plants take care of the CO2 and convert it back to oxygen, and water is, well, water. (It's also disturbing to note how the article makes it sound like trees account for most of the C02->O2 conversion on the planet, this also isn't true, algae in the ocean account for something like over 60%).
However, in imperfect combustion, like that in your car, other nasties come out the tailpipe, such as Nitrous Oxide compounds (Known as NOx, x for the various subscripts accompaning the compounds). There are others I can't think of at the moment. These other pollutants are the main contributor to factors such as smog and acid rain. New vehicles that come out this year, including most new SUVs, have much much cleaner emissions than that of older cars because they utilize state of the art catalysts, fuel injection, and other aftertreatments. Now, they might have MORE emissions, but the majority of that is of the less harmful gasses like CO2 and water vapor.
It would seem more logical for companies to give customers the option of GPS tracking. If you use the tracking, you get a tangible discount on, say, the insurance you pay for that car. If you opt out, then you pay more insurance.
Not only will the lower risk drivers go for the cheaper insurance, the companies can single out who to charge more since they'll be more likely to mess up the car.
Either way, they are certainly in their right to know where their $20,000 investment is at any time. Being sneaky about it is what brings it into a gray area.
Don't know about you guys, but sometimes I'll listen to one of these files and not realize it's a loop until I'm about 3 minutes into it 'cause I'm not paying attention. Then I feel like a tool. Says something about modern music, no?
Maybe they'll finally consider nuclear power or something similar for this sort of trip -- it seems to be the only feasable way to make a large trip. Switch to nuclear, and you suddenly cut your fuel mass by a whole lot!
Or, maybe use those spiffy ion propulsion engines they've been using on some sattelites lately.
Either way, this is something that should definitely be done no matter what the cost. You can't eye space travel as a direct commercial gain, but the social, technological, and fringe benefits of such a trip are great. Let's not forget the thousands of useful inventions that came out of the NASA Space program. It's nice to get a nation, or in this case, a group of nations together for a cause other than fighting an enemy.
Can you say "waste of time?" Yeah, I knew you could.
Well, I remember they had a program on a TI-85 graphing calculator that would play.WAV files through the link port if you hooked up headphones to it... Now THAT was a waste of time -- there was only 32k of ram in that thing.
The same is essentially true for private individuals too. Anyone who wants a PC already likely has one, so why buy another one (especially in an uncertain economic climate) if the old one does the trick?
No new PC means no new HDD.
Lest we forget that recent little IBM drive debacle... I'd say the hard drive industry has plenty of drives to sell!
Sometimes you gotta be careful with this cooling business. Had a friend who hooked up a peltier to his computer, but got it *too cold*, and ended up condensating on his board and corroded all his little sensistive surface mount components! I keep asking him why he does it, I think it's an addiction or something. He never did anything past seeing how many thousands of frames per second he could get in Quake.
Careful, if you're caught running one of those nasty little P2P clients, the RIAA will stuff your hard drive full of the latest Backstreet Boys, NSync, Creed, and Barbara Streisand albums. That'll show you! The agony!
The radio stations are given airspace (that belongs to the public) on the assumption that they are providing some public good (which is not necessarily exclusive with their own profit).
True, but don't forget that the people that put on this programming aren't exactly volunteering their time... It's a business just like any other in a semi-regulated market (telecom for example). Unless you and a bunch of other people start writing fat checks to the radio stations to pay their salaries, they're going to play what keeps them in business: Music that will keep people listening to the station and (hopefully) the ads, thus making the advertising profitable... whatever their main demographic might be.
If a majority of people didn't like these "pure advertisement" stations, they wouldn't listen to them, the advertisers would eventually pull out once they realized noone was listening, and the station would be out of business in a year or two or be forced to change its practices.
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The book should include appetizing dishes prepared on your very own over-clocked processor. Things like Pentium Pop-Tarts, Athlon Scrambled eggs, etc.
You could include a subsection for overclock GPUs too.. NVidia Quadro Quesadillas!
What fun!
This is intereresting but not that all unexepected --- Case has always been on the cutting edge of networking technology. I almost ended up going to school there just because they already have ATM Fiber conncetions in all the rooms already (155Mb/sec IIRC). Gigabit ethernet in itself is interesting because I Don't know of any hard drives that can actually move 100 megabytes a second conitinuously, but I'm sure it will catch up one day. I wouldn't be surprised if students started building RAID striping arrays just to get the bandwidth up.
On another note, the article doesn't seem to mention the speed of the actual internet hookup. Anyone know what they have over there? If they haven't upgraded that, then the whole thing won't seem any faster than 10-base-T when using the net.
I can see it now, the RIAA manufacturing discs that experience structural failure when you spin them faster than 1X to rip them....
:-)
oh boy.
Wonder what happens if you spin a floppy at 30,000 rpm?
As a not-so-proud citizen of South Carolina, I'll be doing my part by not reelecting Mr. Hollings next election season.
Everyone is leaving out a very important factor: COST! That's the reason different protocols exist at all. RS-232 is one of the cheapest to implement, many CPUs can take it right in on a chip. Also, it works over long distances (100+ feet), something that firewire, USB 2.0, IDE, etc CAN'T do. The compromise: speed. On a desktop, it's not that bad -- you can drop the distance requirement and crank up the speed, but it takes a more expensive chip. Serial-type busses are still cheaper than trying to integrate an ethernet controller and a processor just to move packets around. Let's not forget that TCP/IP has a LOT of overhead compared to a serial bus, and you don't need routability when you're going from point A to point B. Different applications, different protocols. It's just a matter of cost.
Anyone remember the Apple Desktop Bus back from early days? That was pretty slick in itself. Right idea, but it was just a tad too slow.
Backstreet Boys and N'Sync are extreme examples of the dumb luck phenomenon, because producers found them, threw out a lot of their work, handed them music to sing and sent them on their way to stardom. I think a reference to a particular South Park episode is in order here, where the boys were randomly picked by a producer and became famous overnight.
Audiogalaxy was still the best place to find unknown acts, but of course the record labels killed a good thing. I rather them shut down the P2P networks than audiogalaxy. It seems the newspapers are picking up slack from AG's demise, but they won't be able to be as complete or as nationwide. I don't particularly care if a band is local or not, just if they're good! Unfortunately being a good songwriter is one-in-a-million sort of thing.
On another note, P2P programs are simply another aplication of the 20-80 Rule, aka Pareto's Principle where 20% of your users account for 80% of your bandwidth.
But those little camera caps are chicken feed. Try on a 2700 Farad Capacitor on for size!
While EVs may be producing more pollution by your numbers, there are many other things to consider. EVs run off of electricity that is centrally produced. This is often accomplished more efficently than doing it on a per-car basis. The best part about EVs is that they can take advantage of nuclear power (which is the most environmentally friendly if you contain the waste properly). Now granted, the major problem with EVs is that they have battery disposal problems (lead-acid batteries are difficult to get rid of), but once better battery technology rolls around, EVs just might be the answer. Don't forget that EVs require much fewer auxillary fluids such as engine oil and antifreeze, and they waste much less power in heat compared to their internal combustion counterparts. A typical EV is somewhere between 80-90% efficent from the energy in the pack to the energy in the wheels, where as your BEST internal combustion systems are 30-40% efficent at converting the energy in gas to power at the wheels.
You can skew the numbers any way you want, but the main idea is to get rid of our dependence on oil so the terrorists don't have any more funding!
As we've seen in OS land of late, your OS needs some serious financial backing to get it off the ground. Even linux was just another hobby OS until the big boys got involved. While I'm a fan of BeOS, it seems like its main target market, media applications, is already well-filled by Apple and Microsoft. They also have the additional hurdle of starting several years behind these other mature OS's. If they can overcome these obstacles, then all the more power to them, but at this point it's an uphill battle. Good luck guys.
Record companies still aren't using it on very major releases (such as the Eminem Show), which makes me wonder if they are really concerned with this hurting their sales. If so, the market has already spoken.
Whoa there cowboy! It's a BAD assumption to assume that gas mileage is equal to emissions.
It's not.
In ideal combustion, there would be only CO2 and water coming out of the tailpipe. This in itself is harmless. Plants take care of the CO2 and convert it back to oxygen, and water is, well, water. (It's also disturbing to note how the article makes it sound like trees account for most of the C02->O2 conversion on the planet, this also isn't true, algae in the ocean account for something like over 60%).
However, in imperfect combustion, like that in your car, other nasties come out the tailpipe, such as Nitrous Oxide compounds (Known as NOx, x for the various subscripts accompaning the compounds). There are others I can't think of at the moment. These other pollutants are the main contributor to factors such as smog and acid rain. New vehicles that come out this year, including most new SUVs, have much much cleaner emissions than that of older cars because they utilize state of the art catalysts, fuel injection, and other aftertreatments. Now, they might have MORE emissions, but the majority of that is of the less harmful gasses like CO2 and water vapor.
It would seem more logical for companies to give customers the option of GPS tracking. If you use the tracking, you get a tangible discount on, say, the insurance you pay for that car. If you opt out, then you pay more insurance.
Not only will the lower risk drivers go for the cheaper insurance, the companies can single out who to charge more since they'll be more likely to mess up the car.
Either way, they are certainly in their right to know where their $20,000 investment is at any time. Being sneaky about it is what brings it into a gray area.
Don't know about you guys, but sometimes I'll listen to one of these files and not realize it's a loop until I'm about 3 minutes into it 'cause I'm not paying attention. Then I feel like a tool. Says something about modern music, no?
Maybe they'll finally consider nuclear power or something similar for this sort of trip -- it seems to be the only feasable way to make a large trip. Switch to nuclear, and you suddenly cut your fuel mass by a whole lot!
Or, maybe use those spiffy ion propulsion engines they've been using on some sattelites lately.
Either way, this is something that should definitely be done no matter what the cost. You can't eye space travel as a direct commercial gain, but the social, technological, and fringe benefits of such a trip are great. Let's not forget the thousands of useful inventions that came out of the NASA Space program. It's nice to get a nation, or in this case, a group of nations together for a cause other than fighting an enemy.
Well, I remember they had a program on a TI-85 graphing calculator that would play .WAV files through the link port if you hooked up headphones to it... Now THAT was a waste of time -- there was only 32k of ram in that thing.
The same is essentially true for private individuals too. Anyone who wants a PC already likely has one, so why buy another one (especially in an uncertain economic climate) if the old one does the trick? No new PC means no new HDD.
Lest we forget that recent little IBM drive debacle... I'd say the hard drive industry has plenty of drives to sell!
Sometimes you gotta be careful with this cooling business. Had a friend who hooked up a peltier to his computer, but got it *too cold*, and ended up condensating on his board and corroded all his little sensistive surface mount components! I keep asking him why he does it, I think it's an addiction or something. He never did anything past seeing how many thousands of frames per second he could get in Quake.
Careful, if you're caught running one of those nasty little P2P clients, the RIAA will stuff your hard drive full of the latest Backstreet Boys, NSync, Creed, and Barbara Streisand albums. That'll show you!
The agony!
The radio stations are given airspace (that belongs to the public) on the assumption that they are providing some public good (which is not necessarily exclusive with their own profit).
True, but don't forget that the people that put on this programming aren't exactly volunteering their time... It's a business just like any other in a semi-regulated market (telecom for example). Unless you and a bunch of other people start writing fat checks to the radio stations to pay their salaries, they're going to play what keeps them in business: Music that will keep people listening to the station and (hopefully) the ads, thus making the advertising profitable... whatever their main demographic might be.
If a majority of people didn't like these "pure advertisement" stations, they wouldn't listen to them, the advertisers would eventually pull out once they realized noone was listening, and the station would be out of business in a year or two or be forced to change its practices.
Free market rules!