Perhaps a better comparison is between Audio tape and CD with VHS and DVD. You'll notice that SACD and DVD-A went nowhere, and mp3s rule the day. The video analogy is of course on-demand or Digital download. They days of removable media are gone and done. Blu-ray was as much a dead fish as HD-DVD.
You're discounting the fact that 19 of these houses will have things like web-enabled toasters and washing machines. These new appliances will of course each be turned into spam-bot zombies. I can totally see 20 houses sending 20tb/s of data, but luckily their ISP will cut them off when they reach the limit of "unlimited."
Here's the thing from someone that actually works with enterprise geospatial software. It's a LOT harder than it sounds to do something like this. Even in a controlled environment with good templates, qualified drafters and multi-layer QC, creating a VERY large vector dataset is a very difficult task. The geometry is difficult and time consuming, but that's NOTHING compared to the attributes that go into it. When you're routing people with directions, you need all kinds of attributes like geocoded addresses, road name, numeric designation, road type, road restrictions (bridge weight limits, one-way,etc) road width, proper exit recording, and many more that I'm forgetting. QC is the killer here.
1) Speak for yourself
2) TPM has a reasonable business case that has nothing to do with DRM
3) Any microcode execution is called by software
Ok, so Intel and AMD, who each have an annual revenue 10x that of the music industry somehow bend over and put some mystical "filtering" on the CPU. (Technically possible, but more trouble than it's worth) what software is going to execute these instructions? Apple hates it's customers enough to do it, but Microsoft knows better than to try to implement something this stupid in media player. (maybe on Zune though...) I can pretty much assure you that Winamp/Musicmatch/your favorite player won't support these "extensions."
I think you miss the point. There is no sale here, no service, no transfer of wealth, as part owner, it's already my money, but I pay the income tax twice on it.
I'm certainly not a wealthy man (I drive a 7 year old Hyundai) but I have a little bit of stock, and I've experienced just how bogus this system is.
Fine, cheerlead linux all you like, but do a fair comparison. A consumer OEM Windows Vista vs a "clean" Ubuntu download? Well DUH, I wonder which one has more crap on it.
One need not reach escape velocity to enter orbit, only to drift off into space. If one were to shoot a gun with a muzzle velocity of 9800kph, the maximum altitude of the projectile would be around 378 kilometers, PLENTY high enough to take out a LEO satellite, and it's approaching(?) what would be required to place one in orbit. (although the mass would be SIGNIFICANTLY more than the projectiles they are using on this)
AFAIK, The US hasn't launched an RTG generator powered spacecraft since the 70's. Even it that's what it had, an RTG can certainly survive reentry, and would probably remain totally intact after impact. (it'd be a big solid ball of plutonium and lead) I'm not sure what you mean by "low profile" but space is pretty gigantic, and they could put out awfully big solar panels and never be seen by anybody.
I've had an instructional lab full of SGIs cranking out projects overnight from the comfort of my home. Shut off the Comms, and the one or two students that were doing exceptional work are now incapable of doing it. Shutting off comms gear isn't easy either. You have to power up and down in exactly th right sequence.
As a contractor, I am paid for my time. If I spend time NOT working, I don't charge for it. When I have downtime, I keep a list of customer-approved research projects handy. These are typically things that make my or somebody else's job a bit easier. (such as a new software that can fix a workflow problem, or creating a technique that can provide us a new capability) A few of these side projects have made big impacts, and I look good for "taking the initiative."
We have several OSS cheerleaders in my organization that keep trying to ram it through the system for network approval. One really important factor has stopped them in their tracks, and they CAN NOT talk their way around it.
Why? Anything we deploy is a potential destabilizer or security hole. We have lots (millions) of pages that only work correctly in IE, integrated PKI, custom extensions, etc. We have ZERO pages that require firefox. Ultimately, "preference" is not a sufficient reason to approve something.
that the plane is vulnerable to Surface-to-air missiles, or nuclear blasts? A lot of things have to fall into place for someone to get this kind of access, it's not like the avionics system has a wi-fi adapter...
I routinely move tens of gigs of data on and off of big drives, and I have actually timed it. If I'm transferring 100GB, the time difference between the four is in the 5-10 second range, and there isn't a consistent winner. The limiter is the HDD, not the connector.
Probably not. You've got a few gravitational encumbrances going the other way.The first is the earth's larger mass. Escape Velocity from Mars (5km/s) is MUCH lower than from the earth (11.2 km/s) requiring a larger "strike," creating more heat and launching deeper, sterile subsurface projectiles. Then you're fighting the sun's gravity instead of going with it. This means that you can't have debris slowly drift in space inward toward the sun until it intersects the path of the earth, it has to SHOOT straight from the earth to Mars, which is much less probable.
Starvation is one of those things that happens in terrible, isolated, usually temporary pockets. It happens as a result of natural disaster, politics, war, etc. (and then there's North Korea, where official rations are HALF the calories needed to qualify as "famine") But Dvorak raises a VERY good point. There's the obvious teach a man to fish counter-arguement, but for the price of a billion OLPCs (one laptop per child) you could likely provide constant access to fresh, clean water to almost everybody on earth. THAT would go a LONG way to fixing the health problems plaguing the world.
No way I'm defending Comcast (I have COX, just as bad) but articles like this are the exact same kind of asinine propajournalism as "Windows is basically dead" "internet explorer is not as good as FF" and so on and so on
So AT&T is essentially halving their bandwidth by sending a double of the data to one spot in SF. Then they are somehow storing and processing it. We're talking potentially about petabytes/sec here. This sounds like it would just plain not be technically possible on several fronts. (acquisition, storage, processing, mining for value)
For about 4 million dollars per year, you've got top people doing amazing work with tangible benefits. Tangible you say? How about developing the distributed computing technology underlying seti@home? How about paying for use of assets that might otherwise go unused? How about trying to solve one of the most fundamental questions of the universe? The feds spend $4 million every day on stuff that's WAY less useful. If you're looking for waste, the audit would probably cost more than their annual budget.
The biomedical advances over the last 20 years have WAY outpaced the simple problems facing electrical engineers making computers. I mean holy hell, they sequenced the entire freaking human genome, created a robotic heart (sorta) and reattached Bobbit's wang. What has Intel ever done for us? 3.13Ghz instead of 3.02 Ghz? Let me see an intel chip reattach someone's dick, then I'll be impressed.
The problems facing medicine are orders of magnitude more complex than anything else in the world.
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Perhaps a better comparison is between Audio tape and CD with VHS and DVD. You'll notice that SACD and DVD-A went nowhere, and mp3s rule the day. The video analogy is of course on-demand or Digital download. They days of removable media are gone and done. Blu-ray was as much a dead fish as HD-DVD.
You're discounting the fact that 19 of these houses will have things like web-enabled toasters and washing machines. These new appliances will of course each be turned into spam-bot zombies. I can totally see 20 houses sending 20tb/s of data, but luckily their ISP will cut them off when they reach the limit of "unlimited."
Here's the thing from someone that actually works with enterprise geospatial software. It's a LOT harder than it sounds to do something like this. Even in a controlled environment with good templates, qualified drafters and multi-layer QC, creating a VERY large vector dataset is a very difficult task. The geometry is difficult and time consuming, but that's NOTHING compared to the attributes that go into it. When you're routing people with directions, you need all kinds of attributes like geocoded addresses, road name, numeric designation, road type, road restrictions (bridge weight limits, one-way,etc) road width, proper exit recording, and many more that I'm forgetting. QC is the killer here.
1) Speak for yourself 2) TPM has a reasonable business case that has nothing to do with DRM 3) Any microcode execution is called by software Ok, so Intel and AMD, who each have an annual revenue 10x that of the music industry somehow bend over and put some mystical "filtering" on the CPU. (Technically possible, but more trouble than it's worth) what software is going to execute these instructions? Apple hates it's customers enough to do it, but Microsoft knows better than to try to implement something this stupid in media player. (maybe on Zune though...) I can pretty much assure you that Winamp/Musicmatch/your favorite player won't support these "extensions."
I'm certainly not a wealthy man (I drive a 7 year old Hyundai) but I have a little bit of stock, and I've experienced just how bogus this system is.
Fine, cheerlead linux all you like, but do a fair comparison. A consumer OEM Windows Vista vs a "clean" Ubuntu download? Well DUH, I wonder which one has more crap on it.
I've got 4x 6500 Lumen projectors that I use at work, and I DEFINITELY can't light anything on fire with them. (I tried)
One need not reach escape velocity to enter orbit, only to drift off into space. If one were to shoot a gun with a muzzle velocity of 9800kph, the maximum altitude of the projectile would be around 378 kilometers, PLENTY high enough to take out a LEO satellite, and it's approaching(?) what would be required to place one in orbit. (although the mass would be SIGNIFICANTLY more than the projectiles they are using on this)
AFAIK, The US hasn't launched an RTG generator powered spacecraft since the 70's. Even it that's what it had, an RTG can certainly survive reentry, and would probably remain totally intact after impact. (it'd be a big solid ball of plutonium and lead) I'm not sure what you mean by "low profile" but space is pretty gigantic, and they could put out awfully big solar panels and never be seen by anybody.
NSA is DOD Agency
It's sad that TV is the defacto "solid frame of reference for social interaction" these days.
Ooh, and the ability to optically cloak myself...
I've had an instructional lab full of SGIs cranking out projects overnight from the comfort of my home. Shut off the Comms, and the one or two students that were doing exceptional work are now incapable of doing it. Shutting off comms gear isn't easy either. You have to power up and down in exactly th right sequence.
As a contractor, I am paid for my time. If I spend time NOT working, I don't charge for it. When I have downtime, I keep a list of customer-approved research projects handy. These are typically things that make my or somebody else's job a bit easier. (such as a new software that can fix a workflow problem, or creating a technique that can provide us a new capability) A few of these side projects have made big impacts, and I look good for "taking the initiative."
Why?
Anything we deploy is a potential destabilizer or security hole. We have lots (millions) of pages that only work correctly in IE, integrated PKI, custom extensions, etc. We have ZERO pages that require firefox. Ultimately, "preference" is not a sufficient reason to approve something.
that the plane is vulnerable to Surface-to-air missiles, or nuclear blasts? A lot of things have to fall into place for someone to get this kind of access, it's not like the avionics system has a wi-fi adapter...
I routinely move tens of gigs of data on and off of big drives, and I have actually timed it. If I'm transferring 100GB, the time difference between the four is in the 5-10 second range, and there isn't a consistent winner. The limiter is the HDD, not the connector.
And the real kicker is that it was designed, built, and flown by 1962. Before high-powered computers.
Probably not. You've got a few gravitational encumbrances going the other way.The first is the earth's larger mass. Escape Velocity from Mars (5km/s) is MUCH lower than from the earth (11.2 km/s) requiring a larger "strike," creating more heat and launching deeper, sterile subsurface projectiles. Then you're fighting the sun's gravity instead of going with it. This means that you can't have debris slowly drift in space inward toward the sun until it intersects the path of the earth, it has to SHOOT straight from the earth to Mars, which is much less probable.
Starvation is one of those things that happens in terrible, isolated, usually temporary pockets. It happens as a result of natural disaster, politics, war, etc. (and then there's North Korea, where official rations are HALF the calories needed to qualify as "famine") But Dvorak raises a VERY good point. There's the obvious teach a man to fish counter-arguement, but for the price of a billion OLPCs (one laptop per child) you could likely provide constant access to fresh, clean water to almost everybody on earth. THAT would go a LONG way to fixing the health problems plaguing the world.
No way I'm defending Comcast (I have COX, just as bad) but articles like this are the exact same kind of asinine propajournalism as "Windows is basically dead" "internet explorer is not as good as FF" and so on and so on
Haven't you EVER read a /. post on anything to do with Apple?
So AT&T is essentially halving their bandwidth by sending a double of the data to one spot in SF. Then they are somehow storing and processing it. We're talking potentially about petabytes/sec here. This sounds like it would just plain not be technically possible on several fronts. (acquisition, storage, processing, mining for value)
For about 4 million dollars per year, you've got top people doing amazing work with tangible benefits. Tangible you say? How about developing the distributed computing technology underlying seti@home? How about paying for use of assets that might otherwise go unused? How about trying to solve one of the most fundamental questions of the universe? The feds spend $4 million every day on stuff that's WAY less useful. If you're looking for waste, the audit would probably cost more than their annual budget.
The problems facing medicine are orders of magnitude more complex than anything else in the world.