All this is completely nonsense. Everybody always knew that fuel efficiency numbers were undervalued, and that nobody could achieve them in practice. After all, what counts is the progress in efficiency and pollution rates, and this progress has been here for real.
"Avatar" basically tells the story of the invasion of America by western europeans. By painting it in modern, but crude and realistic colors, it shows how bad it was. By inventing an unrealistic happy ending, it attempts to reverse the course of the history - in memories. Maybe it makes it a good cure. Anyway, in this perspective what can be the follow-up ? Rewritings of other bad memories of occidentals, such as the the Vietnam war, the colonisation of Palestine, or of the opium wars.
Does anybody know Aaron Ramsey here ? He's a famous welsh football player. Every time he scores a goal, a celebrity dies. Alan Rickman is just another one in a rather long list including Osama bin Laden, Whitney Houston, and lately David Bowie.
To my knowledge, FON was the first to provide this kind of service many years ago, and since then many ISPs in many countries have done so. Here in France, all major ISPs provide this kind of service, and I assume it is the same in other countries. We would have heard about it for long if there was any security problem associated. So I wonder why this even makes a Slashdot news, and please, please, stop make FUD about this. It reminds of 19e century people fearing driving more than 25 km/h and others being doubtful about the Edison phonograph.
I agree that 1 Gbps is probably overkill. In fact, I'm myself only on a 200Mbit contract (at 41€/month) and I'm happy though I just use 100Mb/s of it, even with five users and we're quite heavy on downloads.
The thing is that the choice is between a slow ADSL (2 Mb/s due to technology limits), and super-fast fiber. I think that current usages require around 10-20 Mb/s for a nice experience, and that it would probably make more sense as a collectivity to upgrade networks by bringing the fiber closer to the homes, but still using the copper termination for the last 10 to 1000 meters (think FFTC/FTTB/whatever). Commercial interplays and regulations result in what we see now, competing companies focusing all on the same high-density areas which enjoy several very-high speed deployments, very progressive FTTH deployment because it takes half a day for two men to connect a house with the FTTH relay down the street (think there remain around 30M houses), and lots of people still hanging behind more than 4km of wire.
It semt to me that the UK had chosen the progressive path, providing fast VDSL to nearly the whole country in just a few years. If it's not working well there either, it's quite sad.
Orange is providing 500/250 but is progressively upgrading to 1 gig download, for €46/month. Coverage is not 100%, only 4M of a total of 34M in the country. Other operators give 1 gig (Iliad, Bouygues) but they cover far less places. NC/SFR is also offering 800 Mbit download on mixed fiber/cable (Docsis), again only on a few territories.
Orange is actually encouraging switching to Fiber, pictures of telecom hubs show how much less real estate it takes compared to copper.
A current experiment runs in Palaiseau to fully dismise the copper network.
That's Sun's J2ME CDC implem. Latests standards,
ARM- and Linux- friendly.
With the recently released Personal Profile, it
should be a nice replacement for Jeode.
It's licensed under SCSL, which at least allows
individuals to access the code and run it for free.
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All this is completely nonsense. Everybody always knew that fuel efficiency numbers were undervalued, and that nobody could achieve them in practice. After all, what counts is the progress in efficiency and pollution rates, and this progress has been here for real.
"Avatar" basically tells the story of the invasion of America by western europeans. By painting it in modern, but crude and realistic colors, it shows how bad it was. By inventing an unrealistic happy ending, it attempts to reverse the course of the history - in memories. Maybe it makes it a good cure. Anyway, in this perspective what can be the follow-up ? Rewritings of other bad memories of occidentals, such as the the Vietnam war, the colonisation of Palestine, or of the opium wars.
See Avago's ExpressFabric for an interesting alternative.
Does anybody know Aaron Ramsey here ? He's a famous welsh football player. Every time he scores a goal, a celebrity dies. Alan Rickman is just another one in a rather long list including Osama bin Laden, Whitney Houston, and lately David Bowie.
To my knowledge, FON was the first to provide this kind of service many years ago, and since then many ISPs in many countries have done so. Here in France, all major ISPs provide this kind of service, and I assume it is the same in other countries. We would have heard about it for long if there was any security problem associated. So I wonder why this even makes a Slashdot news, and please, please, stop make FUD about this. It reminds of 19e century people fearing driving more than 25 km/h and others being doubtful about the Edison phonograph.
I agree that 1 Gbps is probably overkill. In fact, I'm myself only on a 200Mbit contract (at 41€/month) and I'm happy though I just use 100Mb/s of it, even with five users and we're quite heavy on downloads. The thing is that the choice is between a slow ADSL (2 Mb/s due to technology limits), and super-fast fiber. I think that current usages require around 10-20 Mb/s for a nice experience, and that it would probably make more sense as a collectivity to upgrade networks by bringing the fiber closer to the homes, but still using the copper termination for the last 10 to 1000 meters (think FFTC/FTTB/whatever). Commercial interplays and regulations result in what we see now, competing companies focusing all on the same high-density areas which enjoy several very-high speed deployments, very progressive FTTH deployment because it takes half a day for two men to connect a house with the FTTH relay down the street (think there remain around 30M houses), and lots of people still hanging behind more than 4km of wire. It semt to me that the UK had chosen the progressive path, providing fast VDSL to nearly the whole country in just a few years. If it's not working well there either, it's quite sad.
Orange is providing 500/250 but is progressively upgrading to 1 gig download, for €46/month. Coverage is not 100%, only 4M of a total of 34M in the country. Other operators give 1 gig (Iliad, Bouygues) but they cover far less places. NC/SFR is also offering 800 Mbit download on mixed fiber/cable (Docsis), again only on a few territories. Orange is actually encouraging switching to Fiber, pictures of telecom hubs show how much less real estate it takes compared to copper. A current experiment runs in Palaiseau to fully dismise the copper network.
That's Sun's J2ME CDC implem. Latests standards, ARM- and Linux- friendly. With the recently released Personal Profile, it should be a nice replacement for Jeode. It's licensed under SCSL, which at least allows individuals to access the code and run it for free.