You know what's sick? They support legislation to make it illegal for municipalities to help themselves with broadband in places where they choose not to do business at all.
Power utilities are naturally best for this. They have the poles and rights of way, the customer list, the billing and maintenance systems. When they run power is the right time to run fiber. Saves time to use one crew for both, and IP power metering saves meter readers.
MPEG-LA had 20 years to find a court to rule that ON2's codecs infringed. They never did. That makes everything you say a lie. Google and MPEG-LA have now made peace so there will be no problems.
I am puzzled why you think that a free, charitably supported, nonprofit, publicly edited encyclopedia wouldn't have idealism as one of its core principles.
These new hardware partners include ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba.
My phone has a hardware VP8 encoder/decoder. Since the hardware design is free for chip designers and most of them have promised to make VP8 or VP9 standard there should be no problem going forward.
It's hard to collimate signals in the microwave band. There is no way to do that and if there were there are still order of magnitude frequency issues. For about a hundred bucks I could buy a laser and create a way to bounce a data signal off of Mars with it using a mirror and a speaker. From here, using retail parts. The coherent part of lasers is freaking awesome.
Did you know lasers can be used as propulsion too? We aren't making enough use of that.
A lot of those Windows Phone and Windows app store apps are just a for-pay app wrapper around somebody else's public website or data API. They are worth no more than a hyperlink. Sometimes less.
I don't think Google is dumb enough to hire Microsoft to come up with the next version of Android. That decision for O/S2 was so monumentally stupid that it had to be an inside job, like the Nokia thing.
Referred to as the "dot-bomb" era this period of history was preceded by one ripe with the kind of fiscal exuberance responsible people see as a bubble called the ".COM" era. You could not make an IPO with a name ending in ".com" or as an Internet or Linux company without getting crazy rich. Caldera, a tiny Linux maker, got so happy with their IPO money they bought AT&T Unix in 2001. They all bought a lot of Lambos, threw months-long company parties and generally had a great time before the world realized they didn't have a clue how to run a business. As they folded it turned into a proper recession that killed perfectly good tech companies by association because they couldn't get credit. The NASDAQ climbed from 1500 to 5000 in a few years to January 2000, and then fell back to 1500 in two yearrs. It still has not recovered the prior peak.
The same was true for telephone long distance and networking companies. As these went bankrupt Google bought their dark fiber for pennies on the dollar. Their business models were premised on long distance phone calls costing a dollar per minute and it became clear that day was over for good.
No matter how sane you are, once you reach senility your life savings still go to the first charlatan selling tickets to heaven. Usually though these days he wears a white lab coat.
Dong Nguyen did. You don't have to be the next Brin or Linus. Being the next Nguyen would be more than enough for most of us. It certainly was more than enough for him.
The specific gigabit network I referenced is quite old and costly. It was built when the tech cost over 100x as much. Regardless of this it has paid back the investment already and must return the excess to its parent power utility. Since the utility is a nonprofit municipal entity this cash must be rid of with further investment or lower power rates. Apparently it can be done responsibly even by political hacks. In addition the incidental benefits have been extreme. The presence of so much fiber has drawn data centers from Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo and Google. These highly paid nerd types have driven up property values and taxes so much that power rates must be reduced. Where once a 90 acre riverfront farmhouse would bring $90k now it is assessed at millions, and legacy homes of original settlers are being sold for unpaid taxes. If you owned your home when they started this project and have it still, you are up an average of over one million dollars in equity./firstworldproblems//toomuchsuccessisbad
Did I mention that the whole "Ephrata metroplex" thing isn't entirely a joke? Ephrata is a notable cluster of population density but the coverage area for fiber to the home is not just this town but the entire rural county. 89,000 people, 25,204 families, in 2,791 square miles. They have more cows than people, and ALL of them have access to gigabit fiber Internet.
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The truth that Chairman Wheeler was a cable industry lobbyist is here wrapped in just enough rabid partisan garbage to leave everybody unsatisfied.
Without these UX decisions every major hardware vendor would not be shipping Chromebooks and Android devices, so thanks for that.
You know what's sick? They support legislation to make it illegal for municipalities to help themselves with broadband in places where they choose not to do business at all.
Power utilities are naturally best for this. They have the poles and rights of way, the customer list, the billing and maintenance systems. When they run power is the right time to run fiber. Saves time to use one crew for both, and IP power metering saves meter readers.
Ransom Love finally escaped.
MPEG-LA had 20 years to find a court to rule that ON2's codecs infringed. They never did. That makes everything you say a lie. Google and MPEG-LA have now made peace so there will be no problems.
You lie.
VP9 is going to be supported for both encode and decode on the next generation of chipsets and devices from ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba. That's a long list of heavy hitters. Maybe they know something you don't.
I am puzzled why you think that a free, charitably supported, nonprofit, publicly edited encyclopedia wouldn't have idealism as one of its core principles.
All major ARM chipset manufacturers have committed to including the VP9 hardware codec. My Nexus 5 already has the VP8. Soon even the $40 tablet will have it. The license is free, the hardware design is free, so there should be no problem including this high-value IP.
These new hardware partners include ARM, Broadcom, Intel, LG, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Panasonic, Philips, Qualcomm, RealTek, Samsung, Sigma, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba.
The Nexus 5 has built-in VP8 hardware support for both decode and encode.
My phone has a hardware VP8 encoder/decoder. Since the hardware design is free for chip designers and most of them have promised to make VP8 or VP9 standard there should be no problem going forward.
Mod ban - I did too and lost them for a year. But eventually they came back.
It's hard to collimate signals in the microwave band. There is no way to do that and if there were there are still order of magnitude frequency issues. For about a hundred bucks I could buy a laser and create a way to bounce a data signal off of Mars with it using a mirror and a speaker. From here, using retail parts. The coherent part of lasers is freaking awesome.
Did you know lasers can be used as propulsion too? We aren't making enough use of that.
A lot of those Windows Phone and Windows app store apps are just a for-pay app wrapper around somebody else's public website or data API. They are worth no more than a hyperlink. Sometimes less.
It is a tacit admission than the Windows ecosystem is in a long term crisis.
The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.
Also, it doesn't have any windows.
I don't think Google is dumb enough to hire Microsoft to come up with the next version of Android. That decision for O/S2 was so monumentally stupid that it had to be an inside job, like the Nokia thing.
Time was when the euronerd's rallying cry was "The beauty of Symbian is that it isn't Windows Mobile." My how things have changed.
squints Yer not from around here, are you?
Referred to as the "dot-bomb" era this period of history was preceded by one ripe with the kind of fiscal exuberance responsible people see as a bubble called the ".COM" era. You could not make an IPO with a name ending in ".com" or as an Internet or Linux company without getting crazy rich. Caldera, a tiny Linux maker, got so happy with their IPO money they bought AT&T Unix in 2001. They all bought a lot of Lambos, threw months-long company parties and generally had a great time before the world realized they didn't have a clue how to run a business. As they folded it turned into a proper recession that killed perfectly good tech companies by association because they couldn't get credit. The NASDAQ climbed from 1500 to 5000 in a few years to January 2000, and then fell back to 1500 in two yearrs. It still has not recovered the prior peak.
The same was true for telephone long distance and networking companies. As these went bankrupt Google bought their dark fiber for pennies on the dollar. Their business models were premised on long distance phone calls costing a dollar per minute and it became clear that day was over for good.
No matter how sane you are, once you reach senility your life savings still go to the first charlatan selling tickets to heaven. Usually though these days he wears a white lab coat.
Dong Nguyen did. You don't have to be the next Brin or Linus. Being the next Nguyen would be more than enough for most of us. It certainly was more than enough for him.
Did I mention that the whole "Ephrata metroplex" thing isn't entirely a joke? Ephrata is a notable cluster of population density but the coverage area for fiber to the home is not just this town but the entire rural county. 89,000 people, 25,204 families, in 2,791 square miles. They have more cows than people, and ALL of them have access to gigabit fiber Internet.
Other the other hand this would stifle the people who complain that the problem with PV solar is that it doesn't work at night.