If you were a terrorist, you'd have to be freakin' Tony Robbins to be influential and motivational enough to convince American citizens with the degree of affluence and connections necessary to put your plan into motion that blowing up Americans is the right thing to do.
Especially since said Americans/Mexicans/Mexican'ts would be most likely very well armed and without much quandry about murdering folks who cross them.
Unless said environmentalist realizes the amount of land, chemicals, water and erosion were caused by raising the FOOD that was DESTROYED to create biodiesel.
Certainly surplus General Tso's Special grease is one thing, but as a mainstream fuel it is worse than petrochemicals.
I don't understand how a few boxes full of Opterons automatically means taking over the Internet.
In my opinion, Google has penetrated the American market with its services as much as it can. It is probably looking to other places in the world to prop up its cash flow. You know, like a business, rather than a collection of world-domination-bent nerds?
I AM a radio engineer, and I am extremely dubious about some of the claims in the article/website/etc. The thin line on the spectrum analyzer looks alot more like a sine wave than a system that "modifies each cycle of the sine wave". Others have pointed out that this is another way of stating the essence of phase/frequency modulation, a very old modulation technique.
"xG's Flash Signal technology, which utilizes single-cycle waveforms to transmit information at a minimum effective rate of 1 MB/s for each megahertz of spectrum"
Well, to me, you take away the "megas" and you get 1 bit/sec/Hz for the spectral efficiency...the same as BPSK.
The only important technical point I can find in the article is this one:
"Moreover, because the receiver -- the design of which is xG's most-guarded intellectual property -- includes a passive wavelet path filter that acknowledges only single-cycle waveforms, all other RF signals are ignored."
My guess is that he has an antenna/feedline scheme that cancels signals that cross correlate with a 1 cycle delayed version of themselves. Most likely, he does this by using two antennas and a bit more coax (at a particular design frequency) on one antenna to cancel any signals that are coherent with themselves for some integration time. This is not a particularly new or cleaver idea, but I suppose you could use it with the modulation scheme to increase the SNR of the signal (assuming of course that most signals are not like yours).
Also, if this is the case, then the geometry of the antenna array relative to the transmitter will be important, because at the wavelength used (900 Mhz) the configuration of the antennas will yeild different phases depending on how they are aligned relative to the transmitter. I take further proof of this in the zdnet article which describes the signal as degrading when the antenna is pointed away from the transmitter. (near the end)
ZDNet UK saw that the bitstream vanished when the receiving antenna was moved out of alignment with the distant transmitter
This scheme will yield better performance, that is.. until everyone is using it. If there are many signals that are not coherent with themselves over the integration time of the circuit, then the supposed advantages in terms of interference rejection will disappear.
In summary, if everything is as I have guessed, this technology is about the same as using a better antenna for a regular wifi system... it will get better performance, but at the cost of requiring knowledege of where the base station is located relative to the mobile unit. Also, if the technology is what I have guessed, it will be easily copied if the market finds it to have great value, of which I am dubious. I could be wrong about all of this, but it would be interesting to see more technical information rather than a few plots and a dog-and-pony show. Appeals to authority fail to be very convincing when you are talking about claims in a field with well-known laws limiting performance.
It is my perception that the people who think hybrids are "great for the environment" are misguided joiners who want to feel like they are contributing something to the environment while simultaneously standing outside the social mainstream. My theory is that they derive a sense of enjoyment and self satisfaction from this.
The actual analysis as to whether hybrid vehicles are "better for the environment" is a very complex calculation that involves boring and rare information (Where are the batteries supplied from? How are the plastic parts made? What are the emissions from the steel plants? How are the materials for the magnets in the electric motor mined and processed?) Of course a regular car has similar concerns. Many people look at the MPG number on the sticker that came from the EPA tests (YMMV of course:) ) and it gives them certain feelings about their environmental or geo-political points of view. These feelings might motivate them to buy the car but the truth about these effects is very complex.
The economic justification for such a car is even more dubious. You would have to put a high price on externalities in order to justify the higher price of the hybrid, even discounting the fuel costs.
All this adds up to a nexus of confusion, materialism, environmentalism, geo-politicking and contraianism. Plus, the blinky lights show you when you are running on battery power!
>In the United States, forbidden information is anything that hurts the profits of a large corporation.
Well, I think that goes a bit far. A more accurate statement might be "In the United States, those with economic power find it easier to exercise political power than those without" That's been true as long as humans have been around. I am not saying that every effort should not be made to ensure equal access to justice, but human existence is unfair by its nature.
Thank God you don't live in an authoritarian regime like China, and that in America you can write a book about anything you want, as long as it isn't slanderous lies. I think most people find that a reasonable compromise. In China, you can't write a book about particular religions or advocate certain political views. You can't criticize the Great Leader without possible personal repercussions. Think about how many anti-Bush rants are posted to just this one thread! Do you truely feel oppressed by Microsoft? Does Disney cause you to fear writing a blog?
GLONASS is a GPS system, but it is a seperate and not directly compatible with the American GPS system.
The grandparent was expressing wonder at the fact that the Russian military would use an American GPS system for its guided bombs. GLONASS has been having problems with achieving full satellite coverage, and thus is less reliable than American GPS for Russian battlefield targets. It is also possible that the new Russian bombs have both systems for redundancy.
There is a certain measure of irony in this, if it is true.
Actually, he is advocating free market without government intrusion.
If we had no IP laws here, the only way a company could make money would be to innovate and integrate at a rate faster than everyone else. If that isn't a free market meritocracy, I don't know what is.
probably very useful things that thankfully I don't have to bother with...
Hehe, that's my ideal.
I agree, it's pie-in-the-sky, and largely dependent on the hardware manufacturers themselves doing due diligence to make their products easy to configure and use.
Hiding options, controversially, enhances usability - if done right of course, that goes without saying.>
I think that this idea, while widely propogated, is false. You don't want to hide options, you want the configurator to have no options. The ultimate configurator will interact with its environment, figure out what the stuff out there is, and set itself up without user intervention.
While that is a pipe dream in many scenarios, it should be what all GUIs are striving for. Hiding options is merely a half-hearted attempt at this, and is an incomplete solution.
In some sense, the end-to-end principle applies here. The generic configuration program is not really generic at all, it is a collection of specific programs that solve specific configuration scenarios. The user needs to translate his particular scenario into a bunch of GUI button presses, and if they are hidden in order to make life easier "for most people", then he has actually been harmed. You can't solve a specific problem genericly in principle, because the information you need to solve it is by definition not known until a specific situation is encountered.
As a ham, I know guys who can do just that. I was never able to go much more than 5-10 wpm, but there are guys out there who cruise at 60 easy. At those speeds, you hear words and phrases, not letters. And if you need to concentrate, you are going to miss everything.
I understand your experience might have been different, but the fact that you were being paid might indicate that you viewed it as a job, rather than a hobby. There might be a difference.
Dude, do you think that the old guy doing Morse code needs all of his concentration to receive it? Most guys who are that good at Morse code can receive it in the background while carrying on a normal conversation. It's just like reading a screen or listening to a conversation in the background.
I garuntee that the girl couldn't hold a conversation while she reads her text phone. Nor could she read the text from accross the room.
From Grandparent: But I would urge those ranting and raging to consider whether their oppositions to Intelligent Design is founded in a considered evalution kof the theory, or in a knee-jerk reaction against your perception of where it will lead?
From Parent: Finally, and I cannot scream this loud enough, ID IS NOT SCIENCE!!! There. I'd try to make it louder, but I'm in a library.
Well, that solves that mystery. Let's go eat lunch.
Yes, and I'm sure that the editors and programmers come from vastly different sources other than working originally as reporters. Thus, the editors and programmers are shiny examples of non-bias.
In fact, I'm going my own media company that hires regular reporters and uses only ex-sushi chefs to run the production room. The wisdom of someone who cuts fish all day is sometimes flooring!
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If you were a terrorist, you'd have to be freakin' Tony Robbins to be influential and motivational enough to convince American citizens with the degree of affluence and connections necessary to put your plan into motion that blowing up Americans is the right thing to do.
Especially since said Americans/Mexicans/Mexican'ts would be most likely very well armed and without much quandry about murdering folks who cross them.
Just think how much slashdot you could pWn if you paid what Roland does!
, its an environmentalists wet dream :)
Unless said environmentalist realizes the amount of land, chemicals,
water and erosion were caused by raising the FOOD that was DESTROYED
to create biodiesel.
Certainly surplus General Tso's Special grease is one thing, but as
a mainstream fuel it is worse than petrochemicals.
The only time I have ever noticed Akamai's
presence on the web is when I have to fill out Adblock in Firefox.
Now, if google does it, it should make things easy.
Here's to hoping that every advertisement begins with
http://ad./
I don't understand how a few boxes full of Opterons automatically means taking over the Internet.
In my opinion, Google has penetrated the American market with its services as much as it can. It is probably looking to other places in the world to prop up its cash flow. You know, like a business, rather than a collection of world-domination-bent nerds?
Phil Karn debunked the claims about VMSK here:
.. .the same as BPSK.
, 39020348,39235645,00.htm
... it will get better performance, but at the cost of requiring knowledege of where the base station is located relative to the mobile unit. Also, if the technology is what I have guessed, it will be easily copied if the market finds it to have great value, of which I am dubious. I could be wrong about all of this, but it would be interesting to see more technical information rather than a few plots and a dog-and-pony show. Appeals to authority fail to be very convincing when you are talking about claims in a field with well-known laws limiting performance.
http://www.ka9q.net/vmsk/
I AM a radio engineer, and I am extremely dubious about some of the claims in the article/website/etc. The thin line on the spectrum analyzer looks alot more like a sine wave than a system that "modifies each cycle of the sine wave". Others have pointed out that this is another way of stating the essence of phase/frequency modulation, a very old modulation technique.
On the xG website there is a press release that has some tortured details:
http://www.xgtechnology.com/newsitem.asp?id=21
"xG's Flash Signal technology, which utilizes single-cycle waveforms to transmit information at a minimum effective rate of 1 MB/s for each megahertz of spectrum"
Well, to me, you take away the "megas" and you get 1 bit/sec/Hz for the spectral efficiency
The only important technical point I can find in the article is this one:
"Moreover, because the receiver -- the design of which is xG's most-guarded intellectual property -- includes a passive wavelet path filter that acknowledges only single-cycle waveforms, all other RF signals are ignored."
My guess is that he has an antenna/feedline scheme that cancels signals that cross correlate with a 1 cycle delayed version of themselves. Most likely, he does this by using two antennas and a bit more coax (at a particular design frequency) on one antenna to cancel any signals that are coherent with themselves for some integration time. This is not a particularly new or cleaver idea, but I suppose you could use it with the modulation scheme to increase the SNR of the signal (assuming of course that most signals are not like yours).
Also, if this is the case, then the geometry of the antenna array relative to the transmitter will be important, because at the wavelength used (900 Mhz) the configuration of the antennas will yeild different phases depending on how they are aligned relative to the transmitter. I take further proof of this in the zdnet article which describes the signal as degrading when the antenna is pointed away from the transmitter. (near the end)
ZDNet UK saw that the bitstream vanished when the receiving antenna was moved out of alignment with the distant transmitter
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/wireless/0
This scheme will yield better performance, that is.. until everyone is using it. If there are many signals that are not coherent with themselves over the integration time of the circuit, then the supposed advantages in terms of interference rejection will disappear.
In summary, if everything is as I have guessed, this technology is about the same as using a better antenna for a regular wifi system
You are right about CEO's being treated like they had baseball cards.
I wonder if the investors would sell their future in exchange for money today?
If they ain't, then who IS doing the long term thinking?
It is my perception that the people who think hybrids are "great for the environment" are misguided joiners who want to feel
:) ) and it gives them certain feelings
like they are contributing something to the environment while simultaneously standing outside the social mainstream. My theory is that they derive a sense of enjoyment
and self satisfaction from this.
The actual analysis as to whether hybrid vehicles are "better for the environment" is a very complex calculation
that involves boring and rare information (Where are the batteries supplied from? How are the
plastic parts made? What are the emissions from the steel plants? How are the materials for the magnets in the
electric motor mined and processed?) Of course a regular car has similar concerns. Many people look at the MPG
number on the sticker that came from the EPA tests (YMMV of course
about their environmental or geo-political points of view. These feelings might motivate them to buy the car
but the truth about these effects is very complex.
The economic justification for such a car is even more dubious. You would have to put a high price on externalities
in order to justify the higher price of the hybrid, even discounting the fuel costs.
All this adds up to a nexus of confusion, materialism, environmentalism, geo-politicking and contraianism.
Plus, the blinky lights show you when you are running on battery power!
>In the United States, forbidden information is anything that hurts the profits of a large corporation.
Well, I think that goes a bit far. A more accurate statement might be "In the United States,
those with economic power find it easier to exercise political power than those without"
That's been true as long as humans have been around. I am not saying that every effort should not be made to ensure equal access to justice, but human existence is unfair by its nature.
Thank God you don't live in an authoritarian regime like China, and that in America you can write a book about anything you want, as long as it isn't slanderous lies. I think most people find that a reasonable compromise. In China, you can't write a book about particular religions or advocate certain political views. You can't criticize the Great Leader without possible personal repercussions. Think about how many anti-Bush rants are posted to just this one thread! Do you truely feel oppressed by Microsoft? Does Disney cause you to fear writing a blog?
You are confused.
GLONASS is a GPS system, but it is a seperate and not directly
compatible with the American GPS system.
The grandparent was expressing wonder at the fact that the Russian military would use an American GPS system for its guided bombs. GLONASS has been having problems with achieving full satellite coverage, and thus is less reliable than American GPS for Russian battlefield targets. It is also possible that the new Russian bombs have both systems for redundancy.
There is a certain measure of irony in this, if it is true.
> Wikipedia is not the voice of the Authority, but that of the people.
The people have spoken, and they are literate morons.
Your reasoning, when broken down, consists of statements like this:
1.) X is true
2.) Therefore, Y
Note, that the statements have no relationship other than being part of your argument. If you are confused, I can make a few examples:
1.) The universe is big and old
2.) Life must have sprung into existance randomly.
Or
1.) Someone found a previously unknown strain of bacteria
2.) Life must have sprung into existance randomly.
Go read a good introductory philosophy book if you are still confused about why this is wrong.
Actually, he is advocating free market without government intrusion.
If we had no IP laws here, the only way a company could make money would be to innovate and integrate at a rate faster than everyone else. If that isn't a free market meritocracy, I don't know what is.
How does partisan ranting earn you +5 insightful?
I see that my Haiku applies to your post as well:
Your post makes no sense
mankind has nothing on a
solar proton storm
Your sig makes no sense
mankind has nothing on a
solar proton storm
The only way to achieve these ends is through dedicated custom hardware.
General purpose CPUS are not there yet.
Who says such scales have bottoms? If it's your scale, maybe.
My scale goes from 0 to NaN.
probably very useful things that thankfully I don't have to bother with...
Hehe, that's my ideal.
I agree, it's pie-in-the-sky, and largely dependent on the hardware manufacturers themselves doing due diligence to make their products easy to configure and use.
Such is life.
Hiding options, controversially, enhances usability - if done right of course, that goes without saying.>
I think that this idea, while widely propogated, is false. You don't want to hide options, you want the configurator to have no options. The ultimate configurator will interact with its environment, figure out what the stuff out there is, and set itself up without user intervention.
While that is a pipe dream in many scenarios, it should be what all GUIs are striving for. Hiding options is merely a half-hearted attempt at this, and is an incomplete solution.
In some sense, the end-to-end principle applies here. The generic configuration program is not really generic at all, it is a collection of specific programs that solve specific configuration scenarios. The user needs to translate his particular scenario into a bunch of GUI button presses, and if they are hidden in order to make life easier "for most people", then he has actually been harmed. You can't solve a specific problem genericly in principle, because the information you need to solve it is by definition not known until a specific situation is encountered.
As a ham, I know guys who can do just that. I was never able to go much more than 5-10 wpm, but there are guys out there who cruise at 60 easy. At those speeds, you hear words and phrases, not letters. And if you need to concentrate, you are going to miss everything.
I understand your experience might have been different, but the fact that you were being paid might indicate that you viewed it as a job, rather than a hobby. There might be a difference.
> Texting is asynchronous though.
Dude, do you think that the old guy doing Morse code needs all of his concentration to receive it? Most guys who are that good at Morse code can receive it in the background while carrying on a normal conversation. It's just like reading a screen or listening to a conversation in the background.
I garuntee that the girl couldn't hold a conversation while she reads her text phone. Nor could she read the text from accross the room.
From Grandparent:
But I would urge those ranting and raging to consider whether their oppositions to Intelligent Design is founded in a considered evalution kof the theory, or in a knee-jerk reaction against your perception of where it will lead?
From Parent:
Finally, and I cannot scream this loud enough, ID IS NOT SCIENCE!!! There. I'd try to make it louder, but I'm in a library.
Well, that solves that mystery. Let's go eat lunch.
Yes, and I'm sure that the editors and programmers come from vastly different sources other than working originally as reporters. Thus, the editors and programmers are shiny examples of non-bias.
In fact, I'm going my own media company that hires regular reporters and uses only ex-sushi chefs to run the production room. The wisdom of someone who cuts fish all day is sometimes flooring!
WTF?