Actually, the previous article was really "Bluetooth is dying because WUSB will kill it", so it's not so much a conspiracy as just a glut of news surrounding Intel's announcement.
Yeah, and that dollar you just spent passed through the account of a company indirectly owned by Osama Bin Laden 20 years ago, so you must be a terrorist. I agree that drugs are a problem, but at some point the causal chain becomes negligible, especially for a simplified exampled posted on Slashdot.
(For the record, I live in NYC, and I am anti-drug.)
One possibility I haven't seen discussed much is to make mail transmission intentionally unreliable. What would happen if a mail server rejected 90% of the attempts to send a message through it (and the sender was configured to keep trying until it went through)? Normal, legitimate, one-off emails would take up 10 times as much bandwidth (and time) due to failed requests, but these numbers are right now measured in kilobytes and seconds so it's not that bad, and the increased load on any single ISP wouldn't be all that great compared to their other bandwidth consumption. A mailing list with several thousand users would be significantly slowed, but it might be tolerable. A spammer who depends on keeping his connection filled to capacity with outgoing emails would see his output cut by an order of magnitude and go out of business. Objections?
That, and drug dealers are only consuming the resources of people who voluntarily seek out their services. They aren't crop-dusting entire neighborhoods with cocaine in the hope that someone will get hooked and come looking for more.
Pixlet isn't a real marketing goldmine (although it is , it's a pretty technical feature used by an important but small segment of the Mac market. Apple doesn't make a big deal out of ODBC, CUPS, ColorSync, NFS, or a lot of other back-end stuff, but it's there for anyone interested if they do some research into whether they can use OS X (research which they definitely should do if they're considering a business platform switch).
Standard chicken and egg problem... No one's going to invest in developing a product that requires 100Mbps to the home because it will take years or decades for that to become widespread. And since there are no applications that require that much bandwidth, there's no demand for 100mbps to the home, so no one will invest in it.
However, you're right that the ideas in this article would have much more merit if there were even *plans* for such services on the drawing board. Our current voice and cable networks are apparently "good enough" for the vast majority of users, and VOIP and TVOIP would not be that much better than current services to justify the cost of switching. Hunt is also neglecting the fairly large time during which *both* networks would have to be maintained; the old voice and cable networks couldn't be shut down until the new 100Mbps network approached their penetration levels, which would take years or decades.
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...And then I went "eeeaaaaaarrrghhh" and my coronary artery was GONE! It was a really good artery...
You my friend, have little knowledge of chemistry.
Are you saying that organic chemistry is essentially a solved problem? That we have proven that Earth life is the only feasible biochemical basis for life and that chemicals capable of sustaining life can only form in Earthlike conditions?
Why do we decide the probability of life on Europa based on life's characteristics on Earth? It's a completely different environment that has never had any contact with Earth and almost certainly has never had conditions similar to conditions at any time in the history of life on Earth. Our knowledge of biology may not even apply to anything we discover out there.
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Likewise, there's the paradox of heros who have super-strength but not invulnerability (e.g. spider-man). He'd have to have at least some level of increased structural cohesion (and the increased resistance to physical harm in general that accompanies it) just so his super-muscles wouldn't destroy his body when he tenses them, and so he won't be crushed by the car he's holding over his head.
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Your house/apartment/whatever is taking up far more space than a single grave. I can think of a few ways to improve this situation.
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If you took all the people in the world and packed them into a box, like sardines, without cremating, that box would have to be about 3/4 mile per side.
The diamond does appear in 2010, but only as a brief mention when Bowman is exploring Jupiter, a sequence that's not in the movie. At the end of the book, when Jupiter ignites, the diamond core is shattered and ejected into orbit, and it's an large part of the plot of 2061.
It doesn't make financial sense. No business that relies solely on providing wireless access for profit will succeed. What's probably going to happen is that wifi access is just going to become an expected service of any respectable establishment, like pay phones or air conditioning.
They used to post the same sort of articles during the.com boom, except they used "search engines" instead of Google, and there were indeed rather a lot of them (anyone remember webcrawler, altavista, hotbot, lycos, infoseek?). Now that there is pretty much only one search engine worth using, there's no reason to write the general term.
It may not make sense to a speaker of classical greek, but in English it's acceptable to place an occupation as a noun after another noun to form a single description- a mouse navigator would just be a mouse who navigates, just like a truck driver or a computer technician.
I suppose they should ignore the thousands of customers who don't have tastes as elite as yours and found what they were looking for? If actually talking to the staff wasn't beneath you, they would have at least made a good-faith effort to help you find it (at least, that's my experience in that store).
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Actually, the previous article was really "Bluetooth is dying because WUSB will kill it", so it's not so much a conspiracy as just a glut of news surrounding Intel's announcement.
Yeah, and that dollar you just spent passed through the account of a company indirectly owned by Osama Bin Laden 20 years ago, so you must be a terrorist. I agree that drugs are a problem, but at some point the causal chain becomes negligible, especially for a simplified exampled posted on Slashdot.
(For the record, I live in NYC, and I am anti-drug.)
One possibility I haven't seen discussed much is to make mail transmission intentionally unreliable. What would happen if a mail server rejected 90% of the attempts to send a message through it (and the sender was configured to keep trying until it went through)? Normal, legitimate, one-off emails would take up 10 times as much bandwidth (and time) due to failed requests, but these numbers are right now measured in kilobytes and seconds so it's not that bad, and the increased load on any single ISP wouldn't be all that great compared to their other bandwidth consumption. A mailing list with several thousand users would be significantly slowed, but it might be tolerable. A spammer who depends on keeping his connection filled to capacity with outgoing emails would see his output cut by an order of magnitude and go out of business. Objections?
That, and drug dealers are only consuming the resources of people who voluntarily seek out their services. They aren't crop-dusting entire neighborhoods with cocaine in the hope that someone will get hooked and come looking for more.
Pixlet isn't a real marketing goldmine (although it is , it's a pretty technical feature used by an important but small segment of the Mac market. Apple doesn't make a big deal out of ODBC, CUPS, ColorSync, NFS, or a lot of other back-end stuff, but it's there for anyone interested if they do some research into whether they can use OS X (research which they definitely should do if they're considering a business platform switch).
Standard chicken and egg problem... No one's going to invest in developing a product that requires 100Mbps to the home because it will take years or decades for that to become widespread. And since there are no applications that require that much bandwidth, there's no demand for 100mbps to the home, so no one will invest in it.
However, you're right that the ideas in this article would have much more merit if there were even *plans* for such services on the drawing board. Our current voice and cable networks are apparently "good enough" for the vast majority of users, and VOIP and TVOIP would not be that much better than current services to justify the cost of switching. Hunt is also neglecting the fairly large time during which *both* networks would have to be maintained; the old voice and cable networks couldn't be shut down until the new 100Mbps network approached their penetration levels, which would take years or decades.
...And then I went "eeeaaaaaarrrghhh" and my coronary artery was GONE! It was a really good artery...
On the plus side, I can't wait until theis replaces welcoming our new overlords as the hot Slashdot dead horse joke.
You my friend, have little knowledge of chemistry.
Are you saying that organic chemistry is essentially a solved problem? That we have proven that Earth life is the only feasible biochemical basis for life and that chemicals capable of sustaining life can only form in Earthlike conditions?
Why do we decide the probability of life on Europa based on life's characteristics on Earth? It's a completely different environment that has never had any contact with Earth and almost certainly has never had conditions similar to conditions at any time in the history of life on Earth. Our knowledge of biology may not even apply to anything we discover out there.
Likewise, there's the paradox of heros who have super-strength but not invulnerability (e.g. spider-man). He'd have to have at least some level of increased structural cohesion (and the increased resistance to physical harm in general that accompanies it) just so his super-muscles wouldn't destroy his body when he tenses them, and so he won't be crushed by the car he's holding over his head.
Your house/apartment/whatever is taking up far more space than a single grave. I can think of a few ways to improve this situation.
If you took all the people in the world and packed them into a box, like sardines, without cremating, that box would have to be about 3/4 mile per side.
Maybe so, but can they all stand on Zanzibar?
The diamond does appear in 2010, but only as a brief mention when Bowman is exploring Jupiter, a sequence that's not in the movie. At the end of the book, when Jupiter ignites, the diamond core is shattered and ejected into orbit, and it's an large part of the plot of 2061.
Your VCR doesn't have a rewind button? (Or fast forward?)
It's not the first time the Simpsons "sold out". Remember those Butterfinger commercials a few years back?
Why do you think they call it the RED PLANET?
I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
It doesn't make financial sense. No business that relies solely on providing wireless access for profit will succeed. What's probably going to happen is that wifi access is just going to become an expected service of any respectable establishment, like pay phones or air conditioning.
They used to post the same sort of articles during the .com boom, except they used "search engines" instead of Google, and there were indeed rather a lot of them (anyone remember webcrawler, altavista, hotbot, lycos, infoseek?). Now that there is pretty much only one search engine worth using, there's no reason to write the general term.
The cannons are fired at the sky, so his career is STILL up in the air. ::ducks::
Then I'll burn them to redbook CD, which iTunes allows me to do, and import them into my next mp3 player.
I just realized this post doesn't make any sense. Where did that coffee go...
It may not make sense to a speaker of classical greek, but in English it's acceptable to place an occupation as a noun after another noun to form a single description- a mouse navigator would just be a mouse who navigates, just like a truck driver or a computer technician.
And anyway, it doesn't matter how the store does because Apple is raking it in hand over fist on iPods.
I suppose they should ignore the thousands of customers who don't have tastes as elite as yours and found what they were looking for? If actually talking to the staff wasn't beneath you, they would have at least made a good-faith effort to help you find it (at least, that's my experience in that store).