Every kind of networking is coming together: LANs (Local Area Networks), SANs (Storage / System Area Networks), telephony, cable TV, inter-city optical fiber links, etc., but if you don't call it Ethernet you cannot sell it. Your networking must also include a reference to IP (Internet Protocol) to be marketable.
Above 10 Gigabit Ethernet lies 100 Gigabit Ethernet. The fastest commercial bit rate on a fiber transmitter/receiver pair is 80 Gigabits per second. Each Ethernet speed increase must be an order of magnitude (a factor of 10) to be worth the effort to incorporate a change, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet has not been commercially possible with a simple bit multiplexing solution, but NTT has solved this problem and has the first 100 Gigabit per second chip to begin a 10 Gigabit system [http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news02e/0212/021204.htm l]. Currently, Nortel Networks offers DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) where 160 of the 40 Gigabit transmitter/receiver pairs are used to transmit 160 wavelengths (infrared colors) on the same fiber yielding a composite, multi-channel, bandwidth of 6.4 terabits per second. Because it is now impossible to sell networking unless it is called Ethernet (regardless of the actual protocols used), it is likely that 1 Terabit Ethernet and even 10 Terabit Ethernet (using 100 wavelengths used by 100 gigabit per second transmitter / receiver pairs) may soon be announced. Only a protocol name change is needed. And the name change is merely the acknowledgment that Ethernet protocols can tunnel through other protocols (such as DWDM) (and vice versa). In fact, Atrica has been advertising such a multiplexed version of 100 Gigabit Ethernet since 2001. [http://www.atrica.com/products/a_8000.html] Now that NTT has announced a reliable 100 Gigabit per second transmitter/receiver pair, the progression may be 1 wavelength for 100 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 wavelength (10 x 100 Gigabits per second) CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) for 1 Terabit Ethernet, and 100 wavelength (100 x 100 Gigabits per second) DWDM for 10 Terabit per second Ethernet in the near future.
iSCSI (Internet SCSI) over Ethernet is replacing: *SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface, in 1979 it was Shugart Associates Systems Interface: *SASI), *FC (Fibre Channel), and even *ATA (IBM PC AT Attachment) aka (also known as) *IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) *see [http://www.pcguide.com], Ethernet is replacing ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), Sonet (Synchronous Optical NETwork), POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service, which is being replaced with Gigabit Ethernet to the home in Grant County, Washington, USA ) [see references from Cisco Systems 1, 2, 3, or 4] [www.wwp.com], *PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect local bus), Infiniband, and every other protocol, because, as described above, if you don't call it Ethernet you cannot sell it. Everything, in every type of, communications must now also include a reference to IP (Internet Protocol) for the same reason.
At the same time that the transmitter / receiver pairs are getting faster, and DWMD is adding channels, the capacity of fibers is increasing, as is the transmission distance available without repeaters. Omni-Guide [http://www.omni-guide.com/; then click on enter] is working on fibers that "could substantially reduce or even eliminate the need for amplifiers in optical networks. Secondly it will offer a bandwidth capacity that could potentially be several orders of magnitude greater than conventional single-mode optical fibers." Eliminating
You make a lot of interesting points, (particularly about ternary being a step on the road to analog - Moderators, please mod him up for that if you don't see it anywhere else in this thread) but I disagree with a couple of things.
It is believed (but not quite proven) that there is no highest prime.
Actually it is well proven that there are an infinite number of primes. Here is a really straightforward, simple proof.
Binary math has many special properties in group and number theory. We'd lose those in higher base math, and we wouldn't gain new properties to make up for that loss. Two, the low bound, is special.
Not sure what you mean here. Yes, groups of order 2 have some special properties, but so do groups of various prime and square orders etc. '2' is indeed a special prime, being the smallest absolutely, but that doesn't give it a monopoly on having special properties. See Here for some more resources on prime numbers (OK, now I really sounds like a geek.)
I can no longer ignore the obvious success of patent barratry as a business model. In the tradition of PanIP, Amazon, and countless others, I plan to patent all of the following:
The use of a series of manueverable surfaces, each marked with a linguistic symbol, to communicate with an electronic device.
The use of an electronic forum to mock or belittle the forum itself, or those associated with its creation/upkeep.
The phrase "nounverbs you!" used in conjuction with the phrase "In Soviet Russia".
The use of a virtual or digital reality to provide oneself with an artificial sense of fulfillment.
I think that covers everyone.... oh yeah
Spelling a word incorrectly, or using language in a manner inconsistent with that taught by linguistic authorities.
Licensing of these technologies will be $17.99 per offense, or however much it costs me to buy a remodeled Delorean with a Viper engine. Please make checks out to oneisnotprime.
The patents, No. 5,576,951 and No. 6,289,319, cover, respectively, an "automated sales and services system," and an "automatic business and financial transaction-processing system."
So next they'll be suing ATM's and cash registers.
Actually yes, Boolean functions such as AND, OR, etc., typically accept binary input, but logic tables can be created for functions with ternary (or quarternary, etc.) input.
It's hard to break out of binary thought since the traditional AND/OR in computer science mimic the English language usage of these terms, but in reality one could create any logic table and assign it a name. The fact that AND/OR have clear English meanings confuses the issue when we try to apply them to ternary input; we might as well call the functions FuncA, FuncB, etc. and define the logic tables arbitrarily, then pick those which are commonly useful and give them more definitive names.
Note that the size of a logic table increases geometrically with the number of possible values of each input. 8 bits have 256 possible values, but a group of ternary transistors has 6561 possible values, and quarternary would have 65536. As you can see, this number explodes very quickly. Hence, making such transistors would allow chip makers to make huge strides in speed without having to handle the engineering problem of packing in more transistors.
When accessing msnbc.com, IE has been set to issue a security warning "May contain false and disgracefully unresearched claims."
Seriously, though... My friend registered for a required computer class at her local community college. She told me the syllabus said all students needed Office XP. Another student asked the teacher if Office 2000 would do and the teacher said it wouldn't. I told her to ignore what the teacher said, he didn't know what he was talking about, any word processing needs she had could be fulfilled by Word 2000 or OSS. Then she told me she didn't need it just for word processing, the book for their class was called "Learning to Use Office XP."
I bet Nolan Ryan and all those other big league pitchers were using this too. I knew his perfet pitches were too good to be natural. All this corruption in pro athletics just makes me sick.
I've been to both fancy, $28,000-a-year Universities (Drew) and cheap State schools (Arizona State), and even the local Community College, and from my experience, the quality of education differs very little. I've observed that the reputation of the school matters much less than getting good Professors.
A good Professor can make a boring class interesting, inspire you to achieve your full potential, and boil down the most complex ideas into a simple analogy or diagram. A bad Professor, on the other hand, can bore you to tears, complicate concepts needlessly, or just show so little effort that you feel inclined to show little in return. The quality of my education has always been effected far more drastically by picking good Professors then by picking well rated schools.
One could argue that a good school will have more good Professors (or even that this is the definition of a 'good school'). and they'd be right, but I don't think that there's as much of a difference as people like to believe. I've had plenty of awesome teachers at ASU and my share of horrible ones at Drew. Of course, the bad teachers at well reputed Universities are bad for different reasons; i.e. they're busy doing research and have their graduate students teach/grade for the class.
There are plenty of resources to help you find good teachers at the school you choose to attend. Besides, obviously, word of mouth, there are new sites such as PickAProf where students rate the teachers they've had (has anyone used this site? Does it work well?)
UnitedLinux is the parent company of SUSE, the European arm which produces SUSE Linux. There is also the Asian arm, TurboLinux, and the South American/Latin arm, Conectiva. Yep, all these major distributions fall under the same parent company. So you're pretty accurate in asserting that there's only a few big players as far as corporations go.
Looks like Wizards everywhere to me. Man, I just won't be able to stand this if (when) it is installed in my workplace. All the default wizards in XP (for file searching!?!) drive me nuts already. And I can't wait to explain to my friends and family why Digital Restrictions Management won't let them play their MP3s.
"Play songs by artist." We're sorry, you do not have access to these artists.
"Play songs by genre." You have not been approved by the RIAA to listen to the specified genre, your IP address has been logged and a Cease and Desist order has been autogenerated and submitted to your ISP.
"Play songs by year." By attempting to work around our digital security, you have violated the DMCA. Please turn yourself in to your Zip code's Patriot Justice Center or insert your credit card now.
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10 Terabit Ethernet: from 10 Gigabit Ethernet, to 100 Gigabit Ethernet, to 1 Terabit Ethernet
By: Steve Gilheany
(May 28, 2003)
Ethernet Timeline
* 10 Megabit Ethernet 1990*
* 100 Megabit Ethernet 1995
* 1 Gigabit Ethernet 1998
* 10 Gigabit Ethernet 2002
* 100 Gigabit Ethernet 2006**
* 1 Terabit Ethernet 2008**
* 10 Terabit Ethernet 2010**
* Invented 1976, 10BaseT 1990
** projected
Every kind of networking is coming together: LANs (Local Area Networks), SANs (Storage / System Area Networks), telephony, cable TV, inter-city optical fiber links, etc., but if you don't call it Ethernet you cannot sell it. Your networking must also include a reference to IP (Internet Protocol) to be marketable.
Above 10 Gigabit Ethernet lies 100 Gigabit Ethernet. The fastest commercial bit rate on a fiber transmitter/receiver pair is 80 Gigabits per second. Each Ethernet speed increase must be an order of magnitude (a factor of 10) to be worth the effort to incorporate a change, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet has not been commercially possible with a simple bit multiplexing solution, but NTT has solved this problem and has the first 100 Gigabit per second chip to begin a 10 Gigabit system [http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news02e/0212/021204.htm l]. Currently, Nortel Networks offers DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) where 160 of the 40 Gigabit transmitter/receiver pairs are used to transmit 160 wavelengths (infrared colors) on the same fiber yielding a composite, multi-channel, bandwidth of 6.4 terabits per second. Because it is now impossible to sell networking unless it is called Ethernet (regardless of the actual protocols used), it is likely that 1 Terabit Ethernet and even 10 Terabit Ethernet (using 100 wavelengths used by 100 gigabit per second transmitter / receiver pairs) may soon be announced. Only a protocol name change is needed. And the name change is merely the acknowledgment that Ethernet protocols can tunnel through other protocols (such as DWDM) (and vice versa). In fact, Atrica has been advertising such a multiplexed version of 100 Gigabit Ethernet since 2001. [http://www.atrica.com/products/a_8000.html] Now that NTT has announced a reliable 100 Gigabit per second transmitter/receiver pair, the progression may be 1 wavelength for 100 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 wavelength (10 x 100 Gigabits per second) CWDM (Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing) for 1 Terabit Ethernet, and 100 wavelength (100 x 100 Gigabits per second) DWDM for 10 Terabit per second Ethernet in the near future.
iSCSI (Internet SCSI) over Ethernet is replacing: *SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface, in 1979 it was Shugart Associates Systems Interface: *SASI), *FC (Fibre Channel), and even *ATA (IBM PC AT Attachment) aka (also known as) *IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) *see [http://www.pcguide.com], Ethernet is replacing ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), Sonet (Synchronous Optical NETwork), POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service, which is being replaced with Gigabit Ethernet to the home in Grant County, Washington, USA ) [see references from Cisco Systems 1, 2, 3, or 4] [www.wwp.com], *PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect local bus), Infiniband, and every other protocol, because, as described above, if you don't call it Ethernet you cannot sell it. Everything, in every type of, communications must now also include a reference to IP (Internet Protocol) for the same reason.
At the same time that the transmitter / receiver pairs are getting faster, and DWMD is adding channels, the capacity of fibers is increasing, as is the transmission distance available without repeaters. Omni-Guide [http://www.omni-guide.com/; then click on enter] is working on fibers that "could substantially reduce or even eliminate the need for amplifiers in optical networks. Secondly it will offer a bandwidth capacity that could potentially be several orders of magnitude greater than conventional single-mode optical fibers." Eliminating
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Actually it is well proven that there are an infinite number of primes. Here is a really straightforward, simple proof.
Not sure what you mean here. Yes, groups of order 2 have some special properties, but so do groups of various prime and square orders etc. '2' is indeed a special prime, being the smallest absolutely, but that doesn't give it a monopoly on having special properties. See Here for some more resources on prime numbers (OK, now I really sounds like a geek.)
They finally figured out the solution to spam!
I think that covers everyone.... oh yeah
- Spelling a word incorrectly, or using language in a manner inconsistent with that taught by linguistic authorities.
Licensing of these technologies will be $17.99 per offense, or however much it costs me to buy a remodeled Delorean with a Viper engine. Please make checks out to oneisnotprime.So next they'll be suing ATM's and cash registers.
Wonder if this covers a toaster.
It's hard to break out of binary thought since the traditional AND/OR in computer science mimic the English language usage of these terms, but in reality one could create any logic table and assign it a name. The fact that AND/OR have clear English meanings confuses the issue when we try to apply them to ternary input; we might as well call the functions FuncA, FuncB, etc. and define the logic tables arbitrarily, then pick those which are commonly useful and give them more definitive names.
Note that the size of a logic table increases geometrically with the number of possible values of each input. 8 bits have 256 possible values, but a group of ternary transistors has 6561 possible values, and quarternary would have 65536. As you can see, this number explodes very quickly. Hence, making such transistors would allow chip makers to make huge strides in speed without having to handle the engineering problem of packing in more transistors.
I learned to ignore dubious claims such as this in Marketing 312: The Benefits of Monopolies and the Lies of the CommonFolk (TM Microsoft 1999)
When accessing msnbc.com, IE has been set to issue a security warning "May contain false and disgracefully unresearched claims."
Seriously, though... My friend registered for a required computer class at her local community college. She told me the syllabus said all students needed Office XP. Another student asked the teacher if Office 2000 would do and the teacher said it wouldn't. I told her to ignore what the teacher said, he didn't know what he was talking about, any word processing needs she had could be fulfilled by Word 2000 or OSS. Then she told me she didn't need it just for word processing, the book for their class was called "Learning to Use Office XP."
Ohhhh.... I feel sick just remembering it.
I hope I am not too presumptive too think I speak for the entire Slashdot community in saying...
...and, while I have this chance to speak for everyone
...
OBVIOUSLY
SHOW A LITTLE EFFORT IN YOUR WORK, EDITORS!
and
ICE CREAM IS A SUMPTOUS TREAT.
There... now I pass for a Slashdot editor.
Guess I'll have to start over from scratch on my graduate thesis.
OBVIOUSLY
SHOW A LITTLE EFFORT IN YOUR WORK, EDITORS!
and
ICE CREAM IS A SUMPTOUS TREAT.
Radioactive spiders do not actually change you into a buff moviestar who swings around fighting hobgoblins.
Awesome! I feel important now, like a civil rights leader who's just had his first assassination attempt.
A good Professor can make a boring class interesting, inspire you to achieve your full potential, and boil down the most complex ideas into a simple analogy or diagram. A bad Professor, on the other hand, can bore you to tears, complicate concepts needlessly, or just show so little effort that you feel inclined to show little in return. The quality of my education has always been effected far more drastically by picking good Professors then by picking well rated schools.
One could argue that a good school will have more good Professors (or even that this is the definition of a 'good school'). and they'd be right, but I don't think that there's as much of a difference as people like to believe. I've had plenty of awesome teachers at ASU and my share of horrible ones at Drew. Of course, the bad teachers at well reputed Universities are bad for different reasons; i.e. they're busy doing research and have their graduate students teach/grade for the class.
There are plenty of resources to help you find good teachers at the school you choose to attend. Besides, obviously, word of mouth, there are new sites such as PickAProf where students rate the teachers they've had (has anyone used this site? Does it work well?)
catheter sales expected to rise 1200% for the month of December.
And we would have gotten away too, if it weren't for those meddling kids!
AUP stands for 'Acceptable Use Policy'.
Mandrake is a product of MandrakeSoft.
UnitedLinux is the parent company of SUSE, the European arm which produces SUSE Linux. There is also the Asian arm, TurboLinux, and the South American/Latin arm, Conectiva. Yep, all these major distributions fall under the same parent company. So you're pretty accurate in asserting that there's only a few big players as far as corporations go.
"Play songs by artist."
We're sorry, you do not have access to these artists.
"Play songs by genre."
You have not been approved by the RIAA to listen to the specified genre, your IP address has been logged and a Cease and Desist order has been autogenerated and submitted to your ISP.
"Play songs by year."
By attempting to work around our digital security, you have violated the DMCA. Please turn yourself in to your Zip code's Patriot Justice Center or insert your credit card now.
True, seems like there would be more stuff out there, but there are some great ones like these to keep your eyes open for.
SCO =
Acronyms:
- Smoking Crack Operation
- Stupid Childish Ogres
- Stealing Code Often
- Stock Crashes Outrageously
- Scarcely Curtailing Open source
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