I would think economies of scale would pretty much deal with this problem, but you never know.
Secondly, don't government agencies like FEMA continue operating radio systems in case of natural disaster? Wouldn't that require an arseload of generated power?
I dunno, I really could be wrong, it just seems like we have the technology to keep a wireless grid running just as well as a wired grid. While a wired grid would lose less power due to dissapation and ineffecienty, I still think a comparable situation can be generated for wireless systems.
I wouldn't be quite so quick to say that. I thought that about Cell phones back when they were big clunky grey bricks, but now I have two; a bigger, clunkier grey brick (with a PDA), and a small, thin black one I carry around for it's superior battery life.
Just wait and see, you might not even notice it; telephones might look identical to the way they look now, except containing tiny computers with IP stacks and an IP address list. You won't even know the difference.
Wait, wouldn't that mean that ISPs could be then considered a "telecommunication" system and be subject to taxable double jepoardy? I don't think I'm the only one who sees that happening, and thus Big Boy Long Distance is probably going to fight tooth and nail against VoIP as they already have with 911 laws and such.
Hopefully what will happen is someone at the FCC will wake up out of their pile of old papers and dust and realize what's happening around them. The old POTS system is getting phased out by cellular and internet solutions. It's time to get with the 21st century and write some new laws to govern these services.
Nah, most traditional phone companies have money invested into the cell networks. Those that don't have money invested in information infrastructure, so either way, those companies win.
Where they don't have money invested is VoIP, so of course they're going to try to bury it at all stops due to 911 laws and such.
While I'm not arguing the unimportance of 911, I'm arguing the fact that phone companies have a lot more to lose by letting VoIP go through, having no financial stakes in it.
Well, wouldn't a wireless system stay just as powered as a wired solution? Power is maintained by generators and such for the telephony system (remember, those are electrical too, you know). Do the same for the wireless locales and it'll do the same. The reciever end can be crank powered if absolutely nessicary, but I think a good charged battery is always the better convenience.
There's really not much stopping us from dropping old telephone lines and VHF/UHF tv, but much of America is afraid of change simply because it's moving so quickly. We should definitely work towards a better phase-in program, but I do believe we're heading for the future with wireless communication.
I think the people of America are finding that our government isn't working for us, and we're quite often doing things that are marked as "illegal" anyways, not because of ignorance of the law, but more because of a feeling that the law is not fair.
Case and point of the above is file sharing.
But, I'm not going to go off into that tangent. Instead I'm going to say that we're going to find wireless archetectures being thrown up everywhere until we get to the point that our archetecture overthrows the one the government's trying to provide for us. Of course, cease and desist letters will fly from the government, but I believe that people simply won't listen for the same reason we don't listen to their filesharing BS.
People want to be connected. This is self-evident by the invention of conventional transporation and cellular telephones. The infrastructure for it is already in place through other infrastructures. I think the biggest problem we're about to run into is federal monopoly laws running aground with the Cable companies. Recently they just passed a law saying that broadband over cable is information only and non-telecommunication.
It's really time we stand up for what we want, and what we feel is right, and I think in a weird and obscure way, technology will enable us, and disable us. Pieces of technology will let us explain what we want in crystal clarity. Others will lock us down to biometrics and GPS devices. It's really time we start rewriting the Constitution to deal with these things.
Well, it's pretty obvious to me that this product isn't for you.
Since you're looking for a laptop with tablet input features, I should recommend to you some of the newer Toshiba laptops.
But, since so few of you guys actually read the beginning of the article, I'll try to reiterate what this thing is useful for.
Since my PDA is so lowly, I doubt it could control my air conditioner. But, with this thing, I could hook it to every vent in the home and control the air by regions, and still have the pad with me. Or I could watch the news on it, or read it like a reusable newspaper. It reminds me freakishly of the kind of tablets you'd see on Star Trek.
Pricing is always a problem when anyone brings anything to the market. If the price is too high, the market will moderate it down. If the price is too low, the supply will dry up and prices will raise themselves. Simple economics.
Just because it's not ready for you, doesn't mean it's not ready for me.. I'd buy one to tinker with (if for nothing else), if I had the money, but I needed a laptop for college more;)
..eh not really. The Truck number would still be implied, and probably reduced by the deficit of 5 members. Ideally, the Truck Number wouldn't identify team members by name; it would identify them by knowledge base and work load. If one member knows everything about the project, the Truck Number is extremely low.. you should ask him/her to write it all down and distribute it to the team members in case of such an event.
Simply, it's the idea that's important, not the implementation. If you can locate weakness in your team dynamic, you can repair it.
It's a fair comparison, but at the same time it also really isn't. Lemme explain what I mean.
Mac OS X is a BSD-variant, making it technically a UNIX-compatible OS. While people argue that this makes it better for porting Apps from Linux to Mac OS X, it's not always the case.
It's especially not the case with the Mozilla toolkit. For some reason, I've found that *all* XUL toolkit-based programs run like molassas on Mac OS X. There's still a lot of work to be done in this area especially.
A more fair comparison would have been Camino to Firefox. While technically not the same code, the Windows version of Firefox has been highly tuned for Windows. The unix/Mac OS X version of Firefox seems to lack this tuning all together (probably because in the end there are seventy bajillion different ways to draw something on a UNIX, and only one in Windows). Camino at least is optimized and built from the ground up with Cocoa instead of Firefox's Carbon interface. Million little inconsitances like this, but the point remains.
Camino is functionally identical to Firefox, it's just written to be platform compatible. Give it a shot.
While the F-16 might be ever so slightly more manuverable by more experience pilots, our airforce is built and tasked by new and young labor. That means that tomorrow the F-22's will be outdated and the more experienced F-22's will beat the F-NN's.
The F-16 is truely a remarkable airframe, much as the Boeing 747 has been, but it really is time to get out of the 90's and move on to some more advanced, more fuel effecient, easier to fly and deal with machines.
Dude.. that record of less than 5 minutes is gonna be a hard one to break;) I'd be entertained watching some girl (ESPECIALLY some girl) do it in a shorter amount of time (though longer would be appreciable as well...)
Well, they're kinda expensive.. you know, since one costs in line with an iPod and all.. really.
Besides, fast motion pictures of anything being done is entertaining (yes, even grass growing and being mowed and growing again and a barn being painted and the paint peeling and being painted again..)
Erm, the design of the model's kinda prohibitive; it has an inner framework and panels that attach to the outside. It'd be like a navel ship designer starting at the bottom and building the frame at the same time as they built the outer panels; while the ship might get built, it's horribly inefficient if the work is divided up evenly, and might not even get the same expected outcome if a problem arrised during construction.
Of course, I'm speaking in general engineering terms, but specifically, you have to turn the thing over to attach the bottom panels. Also, while applying the larger body panels, a certain amount of force is acceptable, and too much could certainly break the model, especially if trying a bottom up approach as you pointed out.
Don't get me wrong, it'd be hella cool, it's just not feasable:-/
Personally, I think all teenagers, regardless of homes, economic situation, etc, will test positive for some psychological ailment, simply because the way that we've set up our neuroscience programs to detect such things; in adults.
A teenager's mind is controlled on little more than assumptions and hormones, the mix of which is pretty much give or take given the kid. Now we might say that a well adjusted kid will be in one direction or another, but I come from a place where I've seen a very large spectrum of kids (and I still consider myself to be one, even at 18 years old *I'll be a kid until I'm not a teen/can drink, I'm going more for legal definition here for those pedants who like to pick and poke*). The "more adjusted" ones tend to do better in school, but in real life fumble in all kinds of unpredictable ways. Meanwhile the "broken" kids seem to do better in the real world because they based their assumptions more towards the real world, and less to one their parents, guardians, and teachers prefer.
Now I'm not saying there's no such thing as mental illness in children, I'm just saying too often we give a label to something that isn't there. Because a kid doesn't like to read and would rather play legos and build things isn't a mental ailment, and yet is too often treated as one. Kids like this are branded throughout their school careers as being dead ends, tracked for vocational schooling and forgotten about when these same kids could grow up and be the best and brighest engineers if you'd give them access to the things they need to learn to do so.
I was/am one of those kids, and I'm finding it very hard in college simply because I wasn't granted the same kind of access as children who were branded as "normal" and tracked for college. There's simply so much that I need to know still that I don't that I find myself feeling unprepared for college, even after being here for a year.
Give a kid a tool and show them how to use it. Let it be up to the kid if he or she wants to use the tool; explain the consequences of its use, and the probable outcomes of its use and if the kid isn't a sociopath or mentally challenged in some way, the kid will use the tool in accordance to how he or she was taught, but not nessicarily identitically as taught. That's the beauty of us human machines.
Are you kidding me? Dude, that thing's massive!!! They had to even stop and EAT during it's construction. Doing that without a little guidance is a bit nuts.
But still, the guy gets geek points for doing it in under 5 minutes AND he had a chick help (minus 10 geek points if the chick was his sister / relative).
I think this is actually where the oil crisis will come home first. Manufacturers will be prohibited from making plastic everything by the costs being so damned high, and will turn back towards aluminum and other cheap metals. Of course, these won't work in all situations, and things currently made from plastic will probably go back to being what they were made of before (Glass or paper milk cartons, cars made with lightweight aluminum or carbon fiber composites *no, carbon fiber isn't nessicarily an oil derivative, it can be made from any carbon source...*, pots and pans won't be coated with Teflon, etc). And remarkably, we'll see cancer rates fall from the skies into the ground, and everyone will wonder why.
We're in no danger of oil up and disappearing. There will always be oil to be had, even if we have to start manufacturing it ourselves. Of course, synthetic oils will be a lot more expensive, and will make oil alternatives (Graphite for lubrication where can be used, solar, wind, hydro electricity) a hell of a lot cheaper alternatives.
We are, however, in the danger of losing our disposable lifestyle. A landfill filled with old milk jugs will become a virtual paradise for oil production companies, and recycling (hopefully) will become a more viable option.
This is, of course, if we don't get nuked to death because of our invading all of the OPEC nations, taking their oils and running. But, hopefully, non-Americans will realize this is a problem with the person in Office and not with the country as a whole, and try to spare us when they come to kill. In my opinion, they delivered quite the clear message not to be fucking with them in the first place, the LAST time they attacked.
What are you talking about? In America, a kid becomes an Adult on his 18th birthday, and still can't touch a drop of liquor until he's 21, even though he can go to war and take a bullet in the head for his country (emphasis on his; females don't have the draft imposed on them).
You're right, laws are about reasonable compromise, and the problem is it doesn't seem like anyone can come up with a reasonable compromise unless it puts green in their pockets. Hell, I'd have no problem with the law that says I couldn't drink until I was 21 if I at least had a chance to contest it. At that point, it'd be my own damned fault for not rallying enough people behind me in support.
HTTP is the most commonly used information transport protocol in current existance (people will argue Peer to Peer systems, but I'm not arguing bandwidth use, I'm arguing *use*, as in where has it been used). Every single waking day, us Internet users will use it for something (well, most converging to all of us; if you're one of those crazies who read Usenet and still use rlogin you might not...). Hell, I'm using it now to send this message to you.
So let's go on a foray into a hypothetical Web2 (to go along with Internet2). Here, HTP2 (finally someone removed the damned extra "t", it's Hypertext Markup Protocol, not HyperText...) is a stateful protocol, where when a connection is maintained on the server side for web pages that require it. Sites like Google come to a crawl because before they can even serve you, they've got to go through hundreds of millions of currently active sessions, discover that you aren't one of them, and then assign you a context on their system. Of course, this will warrant ugly hacks such as automatically assigning you a context, and then joining it with an active context later if it discovers that you've already connected (this will be a real nightmare for those who are on dynamic Internet address connections; going to Amazon and submitting a form to buy something could cause you to lose the form altogether). Then people will try ugly hacks like dropping a small piece of data on the client machine to assure the state of the connection is preserved next time the user logs on. Oh wait, this is the original problem dealing with Cookies in the first place, isn't it?
Let's replace this with HTP3, which requires a synchronous connection; all of the data is stored on both the client machine and the server side machine, and is generated in a concurrent fashion, visa vi SQL over IP. Transactions can be rolled back if one computer didn't send or recieve all of the data, and the world's fine right? Oh no, of course not! We're adding even more computational complexity to the WWW. Think once again of sites like Google, who now have to keep synchronous connections with every user in cyberspace. While this doesn't cause the "hack" problem we had before, this causes a worse problem of computational complexity. When you have traffic in order of a few *million* hits per second, even the fastest of database servers, IP stacks, routers, network cards, fiber lines, any equipment attached to this system come to a crawl.
So our foray causes people to flood back to the well established, generally working HTTP protocol.
Next, let's tackle HTML shall we? Okay.
HTML is bad because it allows editors to generate ugly pages, it allows users to fubar things by not correctly ending tags where they should be ended, etc. (Even though the latter is really a problem in web browser design; we'll get back to this).
So we replace it with a *better* markup language like RTF is; yeah, that'll work won't it? Hmm, let's see. I want to do complex embedding, like layering an image over an image. Nope, can't do that with RTF as it stands, so let's extend the protocol to allow it. And what about those poor blind and deaf bastards, we'd better make high contrast and voice playback a standard as well, let's tack that on. Oh, and let's not forget those crazy people who want to do absolutely insane things like "programming" in a web browser. Let's extend the standard a little more to encorporate the ability to run scripts and even executables.
Wait.. we're just back to where we started, once again. Ugly hacks for a problem we didn't originally contemplate. Let's try this again, keeping all of the above in mind as already implemented (and bug free). Now say WidgetMakerX want's to add a fancy new object to the protocol. Of course, the protocol supports the ability to add arbitrary new objects, and embeds just like any other application. But what happens
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Ah, well it's probably the same for me, I've read that most phone companies hate VoIP and doing everything they can to stop it.
AT&T may be an exception, especially staying alive after selling off their mobile unit to Cingular.
I would think economies of scale would pretty much deal with this problem, but you never know.
Secondly, don't government agencies like FEMA continue operating radio systems in case of natural disaster? Wouldn't that require an arseload of generated power?
I dunno, I really could be wrong, it just seems like we have the technology to keep a wireless grid running just as well as a wired grid. While a wired grid would lose less power due to dissapation and ineffecienty, I still think a comparable situation can be generated for wireless systems.
I wouldn't be quite so quick to say that. I thought that about Cell phones back when they were big clunky grey bricks, but now I have two; a bigger, clunkier grey brick (with a PDA), and a small, thin black one I carry around for it's superior battery life.
Just wait and see, you might not even notice it; telephones might look identical to the way they look now, except containing tiny computers with IP stacks and an IP address list. You won't even know the difference.
Wait, wouldn't that mean that ISPs could be then considered a "telecommunication" system and be subject to taxable double jepoardy? I don't think I'm the only one who sees that happening, and thus Big Boy Long Distance is probably going to fight tooth and nail against VoIP as they already have with 911 laws and such.
Hopefully what will happen is someone at the FCC will wake up out of their pile of old papers and dust and realize what's happening around them. The old POTS system is getting phased out by cellular and internet solutions. It's time to get with the 21st century and write some new laws to govern these services.
Nah, most traditional phone companies have money invested into the cell networks. Those that don't have money invested in information infrastructure, so either way, those companies win.
Where they don't have money invested is VoIP, so of course they're going to try to bury it at all stops due to 911 laws and such.
While I'm not arguing the unimportance of 911, I'm arguing the fact that phone companies have a lot more to lose by letting VoIP go through, having no financial stakes in it.
Well, wouldn't a wireless system stay just as powered as a wired solution? Power is maintained by generators and such for the telephony system (remember, those are electrical too, you know). Do the same for the wireless locales and it'll do the same. The reciever end can be crank powered if absolutely nessicary, but I think a good charged battery is always the better convenience.
There's really not much stopping us from dropping old telephone lines and VHF/UHF tv, but much of America is afraid of change simply because it's moving so quickly. We should definitely work towards a better phase-in program, but I do believe we're heading for the future with wireless communication.
I think the people of America are finding that our government isn't working for us, and we're quite often doing things that are marked as "illegal" anyways, not because of ignorance of the law, but more because of a feeling that the law is not fair. Case and point of the above is file sharing.
But, I'm not going to go off into that tangent. Instead I'm going to say that we're going to find wireless archetectures being thrown up everywhere until we get to the point that our archetecture overthrows the one the government's trying to provide for us. Of course, cease and desist letters will fly from the government, but I believe that people simply won't listen for the same reason we don't listen to their filesharing BS.
People want to be connected. This is self-evident by the invention of conventional transporation and cellular telephones. The infrastructure for it is already in place through other infrastructures. I think the biggest problem we're about to run into is federal monopoly laws running aground with the Cable companies. Recently they just passed a law saying that broadband over cable is information only and non-telecommunication.
It's really time we stand up for what we want, and what we feel is right, and I think in a weird and obscure way, technology will enable us, and disable us. Pieces of technology will let us explain what we want in crystal clarity. Others will lock us down to biometrics and GPS devices. It's really time we start rewriting the Constitution to deal with these things.
Well, it's pretty obvious to me that this product isn't for you.
;)
Since you're looking for a laptop with tablet input features, I should recommend to you some of the newer Toshiba laptops.
But, since so few of you guys actually read the beginning of the article, I'll try to reiterate what this thing is useful for.
Since my PDA is so lowly, I doubt it could control my air conditioner. But, with this thing, I could hook it to every vent in the home and control the air by regions, and still have the pad with me. Or I could watch the news on it, or read it like a reusable newspaper. It reminds me freakishly of the kind of tablets you'd see on Star Trek.
Pricing is always a problem when anyone brings anything to the market. If the price is too high, the market will moderate it down. If the price is too low, the supply will dry up and prices will raise themselves. Simple economics.
Just because it's not ready for you, doesn't mean it's not ready for me.. I'd buy one to tinker with (if for nothing else), if I had the money, but I needed a laptop for college more
..eh not really. The Truck number would still be implied, and probably reduced by the deficit of 5 members. Ideally, the Truck Number wouldn't identify team members by name; it would identify them by knowledge base and work load. If one member knows everything about the project, the Truck Number is extremely low.. you should ask him/her to write it all down and distribute it to the team members in case of such an event.
Simply, it's the idea that's important, not the implementation. If you can locate weakness in your team dynamic, you can repair it.
Who said to use Apt-get?
It's a fair comparison, but at the same time it also really isn't. Lemme explain what I mean.
Mac OS X is a BSD-variant, making it technically a UNIX-compatible OS. While people argue that this makes it better for porting Apps from Linux to Mac OS X, it's not always the case.
It's especially not the case with the Mozilla toolkit. For some reason, I've found that *all* XUL toolkit-based programs run like molassas on Mac OS X. There's still a lot of work to be done in this area especially.
A more fair comparison would have been Camino to Firefox. While technically not the same code, the Windows version of Firefox has been highly tuned for Windows. The unix/Mac OS X version of Firefox seems to lack this tuning all together (probably because in the end there are seventy bajillion different ways to draw something on a UNIX, and only one in Windows). Camino at least is optimized and built from the ground up with Cocoa instead of Firefox's Carbon interface. Million little inconsitances like this, but the point remains.
Camino is functionally identical to Firefox, it's just written to be platform compatible. Give it a shot.
While the F-16 might be ever so slightly more manuverable by more experience pilots, our airforce is built and tasked by new and young labor. That means that tomorrow the F-22's will be outdated and the more experienced F-22's will beat the F-NN's.
The F-16 is truely a remarkable airframe, much as the Boeing 747 has been, but it really is time to get out of the 90's and move on to some more advanced, more fuel effecient, easier to fly and deal with machines.
Wait.. Japan has a military AND an air force.. nah you've gotta be yanking my chain on that one. ;)
Dude.. that record of less than 5 minutes is gonna be a hard one to break ;) I'd be entertained watching some girl (ESPECIALLY some girl) do it in a shorter amount of time (though longer would be appreciable as well...)
Well, they're kinda expensive.. you know, since one costs in line with an iPod and all.. really.
Besides, fast motion pictures of anything being done is entertaining (yes, even grass growing and being mowed and growing again and a barn being painted and the paint peeling and being painted again..)
Erm, the design of the model's kinda prohibitive; it has an inner framework and panels that attach to the outside. It'd be like a navel ship designer starting at the bottom and building the frame at the same time as they built the outer panels; while the ship might get built, it's horribly inefficient if the work is divided up evenly, and might not even get the same expected outcome if a problem arrised during construction.
:-/
Of course, I'm speaking in general engineering terms, but specifically, you have to turn the thing over to attach the bottom panels. Also, while applying the larger body panels, a certain amount of force is acceptable, and too much could certainly break the model, especially if trying a bottom up approach as you pointed out.
Don't get me wrong, it'd be hella cool, it's just not feasable
Personally, I think all teenagers, regardless of homes, economic situation, etc, will test positive for some psychological ailment, simply because the way that we've set up our neuroscience programs to detect such things; in adults.
A teenager's mind is controlled on little more than assumptions and hormones, the mix of which is pretty much give or take given the kid. Now we might say that a well adjusted kid will be in one direction or another, but I come from a place where I've seen a very large spectrum of kids (and I still consider myself to be one, even at 18 years old *I'll be a kid until I'm not a teen/can drink, I'm going more for legal definition here for those pedants who like to pick and poke*). The "more adjusted" ones tend to do better in school, but in real life fumble in all kinds of unpredictable ways. Meanwhile the "broken" kids seem to do better in the real world because they based their assumptions more towards the real world, and less to one their parents, guardians, and teachers prefer.
Now I'm not saying there's no such thing as mental illness in children, I'm just saying too often we give a label to something that isn't there. Because a kid doesn't like to read and would rather play legos and build things isn't a mental ailment, and yet is too often treated as one. Kids like this are branded throughout their school careers as being dead ends, tracked for vocational schooling and forgotten about when these same kids could grow up and be the best and brighest engineers if you'd give them access to the things they need to learn to do so.
I was/am one of those kids, and I'm finding it very hard in college simply because I wasn't granted the same kind of access as children who were branded as "normal" and tracked for college. There's simply so much that I need to know still that I don't that I find myself feeling unprepared for college, even after being here for a year.
Give a kid a tool and show them how to use it. Let it be up to the kid if he or she wants to use the tool; explain the consequences of its use, and the probable outcomes of its use and if the kid isn't a sociopath or mentally challenged in some way, the kid will use the tool in accordance to how he or she was taught, but not nessicarily identitically as taught. That's the beauty of us human machines.
Hate to reply again, but does anyone see this ironic? The day we're supposed to be blowing things up, we instead put Lego things together? Weeird..
*clears throat*, excuse me? I just clearly watched a video of them doing it in less than five minutes. So that whole "record" thing is wrong ;)
Are you kidding me? Dude, that thing's massive!!! They had to even stop and EAT during it's construction. Doing that without a little guidance is a bit nuts.
But still, the guy gets geek points for doing it in under 5 minutes AND he had a chick help (minus 10 geek points if the chick was his sister / relative).
Indeed.. Three mirrors on a Slashdot story. That's gotta be some kind of record!
I think this is actually where the oil crisis will come home first. Manufacturers will be prohibited from making plastic everything by the costs being so damned high, and will turn back towards aluminum and other cheap metals. Of course, these won't work in all situations, and things currently made from plastic will probably go back to being what they were made of before (Glass or paper milk cartons, cars made with lightweight aluminum or carbon fiber composites *no, carbon fiber isn't nessicarily an oil derivative, it can be made from any carbon source...*, pots and pans won't be coated with Teflon, etc). And remarkably, we'll see cancer rates fall from the skies into the ground, and everyone will wonder why.
We're in no danger of oil up and disappearing. There will always be oil to be had, even if we have to start manufacturing it ourselves. Of course, synthetic oils will be a lot more expensive, and will make oil alternatives (Graphite for lubrication where can be used, solar, wind, hydro electricity) a hell of a lot cheaper alternatives.
We are, however, in the danger of losing our disposable lifestyle. A landfill filled with old milk jugs will become a virtual paradise for oil production companies, and recycling (hopefully) will become a more viable option.
This is, of course, if we don't get nuked to death because of our invading all of the OPEC nations, taking their oils and running. But, hopefully, non-Americans will realize this is a problem with the person in Office and not with the country as a whole, and try to spare us when they come to kill. In my opinion, they delivered quite the clear message not to be fucking with them in the first place, the LAST time they attacked.
What are you talking about? In America, a kid becomes an Adult on his 18th birthday, and still can't touch a drop of liquor until he's 21, even though he can go to war and take a bullet in the head for his country (emphasis on his; females don't have the draft imposed on them).
You're right, laws are about reasonable compromise, and the problem is it doesn't seem like anyone can come up with a reasonable compromise unless it puts green in their pockets. Hell, I'd have no problem with the law that says I couldn't drink until I was 21 if I at least had a chance to contest it. At that point, it'd be my own damned fault for not rallying enough people behind me in support.
Though, under the same reasoning, MPH is Mega Peta Hour, which.. wow, that just can't be right.
I think KmPH should be fine, but that's ugly, so why not just KPH, especially in the context of velocities?
Quick question; what would we replace HTTP with?
Not so quick argument to base the question on:
HTTP is the most commonly used information transport protocol in current existance (people will argue Peer to Peer systems, but I'm not arguing bandwidth use, I'm arguing *use*, as in where has it been used). Every single waking day, us Internet users will use it for something (well, most converging to all of us; if you're one of those crazies who read Usenet and still use rlogin you might not...). Hell, I'm using it now to send this message to you.
So let's go on a foray into a hypothetical Web2 (to go along with Internet2). Here, HTP2 (finally someone removed the damned extra "t", it's Hypertext Markup Protocol, not HyperText...) is a stateful protocol, where when a connection is maintained on the server side for web pages that require it. Sites like Google come to a crawl because before they can even serve you, they've got to go through hundreds of millions of currently active sessions, discover that you aren't one of them, and then assign you a context on their system. Of course, this will warrant ugly hacks such as automatically assigning you a context, and then joining it with an active context later if it discovers that you've already connected (this will be a real nightmare for those who are on dynamic Internet address connections; going to Amazon and submitting a form to buy something could cause you to lose the form altogether). Then people will try ugly hacks like dropping a small piece of data on the client machine to assure the state of the connection is preserved next time the user logs on. Oh wait, this is the original problem dealing with Cookies in the first place, isn't it?
Let's replace this with HTP3, which requires a synchronous connection; all of the data is stored on both the client machine and the server side machine, and is generated in a concurrent fashion, visa vi SQL over IP. Transactions can be rolled back if one computer didn't send or recieve all of the data, and the world's fine right? Oh no, of course not! We're adding even more computational complexity to the WWW. Think once again of sites like Google, who now have to keep synchronous connections with every user in cyberspace. While this doesn't cause the "hack" problem we had before, this causes a worse problem of computational complexity. When you have traffic in order of a few *million* hits per second, even the fastest of database servers, IP stacks, routers, network cards, fiber lines, any equipment attached to this system come to a crawl.
So our foray causes people to flood back to the well established, generally working HTTP protocol.
Next, let's tackle HTML shall we? Okay.
HTML is bad because it allows editors to generate ugly pages, it allows users to fubar things by not correctly ending tags where they should be ended, etc. (Even though the latter is really a problem in web browser design; we'll get back to this).
So we replace it with a *better* markup language like RTF is; yeah, that'll work won't it? Hmm, let's see. I want to do complex embedding, like layering an image over an image. Nope, can't do that with RTF as it stands, so let's extend the protocol to allow it. And what about those poor blind and deaf bastards, we'd better make high contrast and voice playback a standard as well, let's tack that on. Oh, and let's not forget those crazy people who want to do absolutely insane things like "programming" in a web browser. Let's extend the standard a little more to encorporate the ability to run scripts and even executables.
Wait.. we're just back to where we started, once again. Ugly hacks for a problem we didn't originally contemplate. Let's try this again, keeping all of the above in mind as already implemented (and bug free). Now say WidgetMakerX want's to add a fancy new object to the protocol. Of course, the protocol supports the ability to add arbitrary new objects, and embeds just like any other application. But what happens