Will is require "bandwidth hogs" to move up the price range, or simply put a cap on xfer rates?
If this forces gamers and file sharers to pay more, without opting into the higher range.. well. That seems to be the one point the article didn't discuss.
This plan won't eliminate bandwidth hogs if everyone stays at their current price plan, happy with the bandwidth they have currently. I don't see how this will solve the problem...
IBM Just layed off thousands (?) here in upstate NY (Binghamton). Sold off their entire campus, now they are going to re-open another plant somewhere else?
Their hard drive market share is gone, so they are going to try and push their PowerPC's into a market dominated by Intel and AMD?
Regarding the "pulverize everything in the area" approach: sometimes that's not what you want to do. I can see how a blinding laser would be effective if you were attacking into a heavily populated civilian area, or you were trying to take a compound and not destroy it. You could simply blind or stun your enemy, and send in infantry units for precision ground work.
That being the case, how feasable is it to put this weapon on the JSF? If you were going to blind your enemy so that ground forces could move in, or you simply wanted to stun a rioting mob, wouldn't you put this weapon on a more infantry friendly platform? Say a Humvee, or if you had to go airborne a helicopter?
I can't imagine a slow rate of fire weapon, that doesn't kill, being very effective on a fast moving jet. I am sure you can aim it precisely in the area you want to stun, but from 30,000 ft, you can't possibly tell friendly native infantry from hostile native infantry.
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Will is require "bandwidth hogs" to move up the price range, or simply put a cap on xfer rates?
If this forces gamers and file sharers to pay more, without opting into the higher range.. well. That seems to be the one point the article didn't discuss.
This plan won't eliminate bandwidth hogs if everyone stays at their current price plan, happy with the bandwidth they have currently. I don't see how this will solve the problem...
Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't sure what the numbers or reasoning was.
IBM Just layed off thousands (?) here in upstate NY (Binghamton). Sold off their entire campus, now they are going to re-open another plant somewhere else?
Their hard drive market share is gone, so they are going to try and push their PowerPC's into a market dominated by Intel and AMD?
What is IBM doing?
Regarding the "pulverize everything in the area" approach: sometimes that's not what you want to do. I can see how a blinding laser would be effective if you were attacking into a heavily populated civilian area, or you were trying to take a compound and not destroy it. You could simply blind or stun your enemy, and send in infantry units for precision ground work. That being the case, how feasable is it to put this weapon on the JSF? If you were going to blind your enemy so that ground forces could move in, or you simply wanted to stun a rioting mob, wouldn't you put this weapon on a more infantry friendly platform? Say a Humvee, or if you had to go airborne a helicopter? I can't imagine a slow rate of fire weapon, that doesn't kill, being very effective on a fast moving jet. I am sure you can aim it precisely in the area you want to stun, but from 30,000 ft, you can't possibly tell friendly native infantry from hostile native infantry.