This makes my head hurt.
On the one hand we've got discs that have both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, and on the other players that play both formats.
Somebody slap somebody!
The bitrate ("speed") is always the same, no matter the distance. What changes is the bit error rate, which is proportional to the distance. For this particular test they defined a certain bit error rate as acceptable (don't really know which, 10^-15, 10^-16?) and when they say they did 107Gbps over 100km it means they've got the signal on the other side with a bit error rate low or equal to the defined one. When the bit error rate it just too high, you need to electrically regenerate the signal, which is almost like having a "normal" receiver and a "normal" transmitter (i.e. a diode and a laser, more or less) back-to-back. Sometimes you don't need to regenerate, but just need to give the signal a boost, in which case you'll set up some optical amplifiers along the way. Fun stuff really, specially when you get to the part if you want to boost up the signal in one direction of the fiber then you shoot a high power laser in the other direction.
What general standard? Nowaday it's pretty common to have 400..500km without electrical regeneration, and certain systems go all the way up to 2500km. Either way, how else are you going to carry traffic?
sigh... of course they usually have fiber, that's the only way you've got to carry those kind of bitrates! What do you think Verizon and AT&T are getting? CAT5e?
sigh... of course the distance matters, the higher the span length the higher the attenuation and dispersion!
sigh... if they say they can do 107Gb/s that's because they can fire up the laser on one side and get it with an acceptable bit error rate at the other side. These tests are not based on sending something to/dev/null!
Superior optics. Period. Everything else is a nice to have, e.g. take 1000+ fotos with a single battery (without flash)
Got a Nikon D70, absolutely astonishing pictures, even though they say it's not the camera, but the person behind it...:)
Conspiracies?
The people dictating who's a bad (or inconvenient...) person are the same who can effectively forbid you to leave the country without any lawful justification (until they make it a law, that is...)
This sounds pretty scary to me...
Home of the Brave? Land of the Free? Isn't a revision of the national anthem in order?
Au contraire, they have been busy bees developing and innovating.
Remember the gaming pad, the one that seemed to have been put together a couple of weeks (I'd say 1 week...) before they showed this E6? Lots of innovation and investment right there!
It's a matter of strategy, you see?
Copy(from the competition)-paste...
(love that beamer, though, the HS60!)
"It's unreasonably hard to generate quality PDF programmatically."
It's fairly easy. I've done in the past in a couple of projects at work.
You get your document in a nice XML tree, write a couple of stylesheets, run it through Apache FOP et voilá. Check it out, it's pretty neat, and powerful.
Don't know about the Accord, but with a 130BHP VW TDI 1.9L I get around 47mpg in the city and close to 55mpg on the highway, or better if I'm feeling benevolent. Sure, it's not a SUV, but it is a sport-utility vehicle... sport: it easily gets to 135mph and it has a nice torque, utility: I can do pretty much everything with it (e.g. carry my bike in it...), vehicle: it's one. What else... It's cheap to maintain and (relatively) cheap to fill the tank (and it's not uncommon to cover 500 miles with it). Safety? Well, it's filled with airbags and electronics (the ABS and ESP do actually work, are have spared me of some distress several times...), and because it's a smaller target:) and has much shorter stopping distances, I feel the odds are on my side.
I don't think it's wrong to drive an SUV, but how is it not obtuse?
I'm sure this has been said many, many times, but let me direct your attention to the work "analyst",
specially to the 4 first letters. You'll understand where they get all those numbers and predictions from.
While your comment might be interesting or insightful, it's not quite relevant, you've gotten your technology all mixed up.
This merge has absolutely nothing to do with their mobile division (it's gone already, to BenQ)
Most of what's to be merged are the transport network divisions (think SDH and DWDM.)
Totally different market, which has actually been recovering from the crash of 2001/2002.
Was just trying to make a joke ala RIAA, you know, if the business is bad then it's surely because of all that piracy!... I knew I should have put a smiley in there somewhere.
It's those damn swashbuckers, I tell'ya!
Maybe there haven't been any new really good games people would buy.
Maybe they're just too expensive.
Maybe people just didn't feel like to buy any games.
What kind of useful conclusions are we supposed to take from these news?
Hmmm... I guess that's why I'm not an expert or analyst or whatever they call themselves.
How about putting together an online music store that people will actually use, until then me and everybody else I know of is just going to keep pirating.
Not quite sure this is the right thing to do either, the pirating thing. I do download something every once in a while to check out what's new (don't really have time to pay the stores a visit...) but inevitably, if I like it and if it's not DRMed/crippled, I buy the cd.
If it is crippled I always send a mail to Sony/EMI/whomever where I make it perfectly clear why I haven't bought their product. The guy at the store also gets a reprimand...
It doesn't take too much time, and I feel much better afterwards. Try it. It's not like someone's pointing a gun to your head forcing you to buy and listen to the music... The terms of the deal are theirs, but in the end it is you who's holding the voting dollar.
I don't give my phone number just because someone/somebody/something asks me to...
There, simple solution. And it works. Never had spam in my "real" e-mail account.
E-mail's fine.
(Yeah, gotta have one just for those nice websites requiring an e-mail for registration...:)
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This makes my head hurt.
On the one hand we've got discs that have both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, and on the other players that play both formats.
Somebody slap somebody!
I mean, how much different from voteCount[candidate]++ can it be!??!
How it this insighful?...
The bitrate ("speed") is always the same, no matter the distance. What changes is the bit error rate, which is proportional to the distance. For this particular test they defined a certain bit error rate as acceptable (don't really know which, 10^-15, 10^-16?) and when they say they did 107Gbps over 100km it means they've got the signal on the other side with a bit error rate low or equal to the defined one. When the bit error rate it just too high, you need to electrically regenerate the signal, which is almost like having a "normal" receiver and a "normal" transmitter (i.e. a diode and a laser, more or less) back-to-back. Sometimes you don't need to regenerate, but just need to give the signal a boost, in which case you'll set up some optical amplifiers along the way. Fun stuff really, specially when you get to the part if you want to boost up the signal in one direction of the fiber then you shoot a high power laser in the other direction.
errr... I almost bet your switches are 4m appart. 10m? I've even say 20m. But not kms appart, which is what these systems are for.
Sounds logic, until you figure you have to burn those DVDs first :)
What general standard? Nowaday it's pretty common to have 400..500km without electrical regeneration, and certain systems go all the way up to 2500km. Either way, how else are you going to carry traffic?
sigh... of course they usually have fiber, that's the only way you've got to carry those kind of bitrates! What do you think Verizon and AT&T are getting? CAT5e? /dev/null!
sigh... of course the distance matters, the higher the span length the higher the attenuation and dispersion!
sigh... if they say they can do 107Gb/s that's because they can fire up the laser on one side and get it with an acceptable bit error rate at the other side. These tests are not based on sending something to
I really don't see this happening, how can he ever think he'd be able to keep up with all that porn out there?...
"If nobody can make money from it, there will be no development and open source software quickly becomes outdated..."
How much money did you make, i.e. were you given, to say such a thing...
Yeah, call me bitter.
Aren't they contradicting themselves by releasing the most power-hungry OS ever?
Superior optics. Period. Everything else is a nice to have, e.g. take 1000+ fotos with a single battery (without flash) :)
Got a Nikon D70, absolutely astonishing pictures, even though they say it's not the camera, but the person behind it...
Reminds me of this book (I think I got the right name, read it a couple of years ago.)
Hard-scifi, check it out!
Conspiracies?
The people dictating who's a bad (or inconvenient...) person are the same who can effectively forbid you to leave the country without any lawful justification (until they make it a law, that is...) This sounds pretty scary to me...
Home of the Brave? Land of the Free? Isn't a revision of the national anthem in order?
Au contraire, they have been busy bees developing and innovating.
Remember the gaming pad, the one that seemed to have been put together a couple of weeks (I'd say 1 week...) before they showed this E6?
Lots of innovation and investment right there!
It's a matter of strategy, you see?
Copy(from the competition)-paste...
(love that beamer, though, the HS60!)
"It's unreasonably hard to generate quality PDF programmatically."
It's fairly easy. I've done in the past in a couple of projects at work.
You get your document in a nice XML tree, write a couple of stylesheets, run it through Apache FOP et voilá. Check it out, it's pretty neat, and powerful.
"The incident raises a number of interesting questions and concerns regarding just where our rights end."
Well, they end right there at the point where people happily exchange freedom for that so called "security".
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Born stupid? Try again.
Don't know about the Accord, but with a 130BHP VW TDI 1.9L I get around 47mpg in the city and close to 55mpg on the highway, or better if I'm feeling benevolent. Sure, it's not a SUV, but it is a sport-utility vehicle... sport: it easily gets to 135mph and it has a nice torque, utility: I can do pretty much everything with it (e.g. carry my bike in it...), vehicle: it's one. What else... It's cheap to maintain and (relatively) cheap to fill the tank (and it's not uncommon to cover 500 miles with it). Safety? Well, it's filled with airbags and electronics (the ABS and ESP do actually work, are have spared me of some distress several times...), and because it's a smaller target :) and has much shorter stopping distances, I feel the odds are on my side.
I don't think it's wrong to drive an SUV, but how is it not obtuse?
"She cares about it being tall"
Well, if it's hentai then it's a perfectly reasonable translation to me!...
I'm sure this has been said many, many times, but let me direct your attention to the work "analyst",
specially to the 4 first letters. You'll understand where they get all those numbers and predictions from.
While your comment might be interesting or insightful, it's not quite relevant, you've gotten your technology all mixed up.
This merge has absolutely nothing to do with their mobile division (it's gone already, to BenQ)
Most of what's to be merged are the transport network divisions (think SDH and DWDM.)
Totally different market, which has actually been recovering from the crash of 2001/2002.
Was just trying to make a joke ala RIAA, you know, if the business is bad then it's surely because of all that piracy!... I knew I should have put a smiley in there somewhere.
It's those damn swashbuckers, I tell'ya!
Maybe there haven't been any new really good games people would buy.
Maybe they're just too expensive.
Maybe people just didn't feel like to buy any games.
What kind of useful conclusions are we supposed to take from these news?
Hmmm... I guess that's why I'm not an expert or analyst or whatever they call themselves.
How about putting together an online music store that people will actually use, until then me and everybody else I know of is just going to keep pirating.
Not quite sure this is the right thing to do either, the pirating thing. I do download something every once in a while to check out what's new (don't really have time to pay the stores a visit...) but inevitably, if I like it and if it's not DRMed/crippled, I buy the cd.
If it is crippled I always send a mail to Sony/EMI/whomever where I make it perfectly clear why I haven't bought their product. The guy at the store also gets a reprimand...
It doesn't take too much time, and I feel much better afterwards. Try it. It's not like someone's pointing a gun to your head forcing you to buy and listen to the music... The terms of the deal are theirs, but in the end it is you who's holding the voting dollar.
I don't give my phone number just because someone/somebody/something asks me to... :)
There, simple solution. And it works. Never had spam in my "real" e-mail account.
E-mail's fine.
(Yeah, gotta have one just for those nice websites requiring an e-mail for registration...