But then, like cable and DSL, they'll use the large numbers of people who don't need fast upload speeds to justify never rolling out symmetrical connections for the few people who want and would use fast upload speeds.
I have the option for telecommuting from work and do regular rsyncs to my web host (250GB drive-in-the-sky FTW) but I can only send files at 768kbps, and that's after upgrading to the fastest residential package Comcast offers. And Verizon's upload speeds are the same.
You wanna do research-level computing? You want to design and create brand new ways of computing? You want to work on AIs? Get a degree in CS.
If you want to code or do networking or project management, there are plenty of other courses out there that'll give you a much better education for that sort of job.
What happened towards the end of the dot-com boom is that people started to realize that CS wasn't exactly right for generating code monkeys, and colleges started offering different types of courses to fill these positions.
Most wars are fought over resources. Hitler needed Leibensraum. The Japanese needed oil and raw materials, so they took China and Indonesia. Very very rarely are they fought for other reasons.
So rather than deploy weapons into space to defend terrestrial resources, why not get our resources from space? The cost to do either are pretty much the same, even using horribly inefficient defense contractors, and would benefit the same industries. One will result in a less secure world, and the other will result in a more secure world.
Apple's very late to the game. Their implementation may be better, but they're stealing the paradigms, not innovating them.
I don't dispute that. However, I'm not sure how well implementations are going to work when you've got, say, a Wii hooked to your TV, a Palm Treo as your phone, and a Windows box as your desktop. We need standardization to make sure that the information is able to be seamlessly integrated, and no company seems to want to open up.
If you don't want to uphold your end of the social contract "at the point of a gun," have fun living in a shack in the middle of the woods with no human contact.
All in ones are not the future. All in ones are good for a few things. Playing music, showing photos, making phone calls. Would you want to do photo editing or management on an iPhone? Would you want to do video editing or web browsing or email only on an iPhone? Of course not. You want a nice big screen and a real keyboard and mouse to do those things.
What Apple gets, and what I think is the future, is making all of these things work together. The iPhone syncs to your desktop at home. The Apple TV gets its content from your desktop at home. It's not about replacing your computer, it's about extending it.
I know I'd rather live in Lancaster, PA than Silicon Valley. Even if it has a ton of culture, sitting in my car for years of my life to get to it and then waiting in long lines to see said culture isn't appealing.
85-90% of my journeys are me going alone to pick up a small, hand-carried item and returning home. I tend to wait until I have more than one errand before I go because of my car. But if the mass transit system was well-implemented I could do these trips fairly easily.
Thankfully, I live in a town where my main form of transportation is my own two feet, and my secondary form is my scooter.
If it were the population distribution that made ultra-high speed broadband possible, then LA, New York, and Chicago would be able to have 100 megabit connections for $50/month.
Since they can barely break 10 megabits, it must be something other than population distribution that Japan and South Korea are doing right. And since the population density of Sweden is less than the population density of the United States and they're able to get ultra-high speed broadband, the population density argument is moot.
I can call my credit union's self service telephone and do anything I can do in front of a teller or online. I can check balances and transfer money and get cash advances or even a loan over the phone.
This reminds me of the time I was watching a show on Discovery about "lay lines." They were talking to a guy who was the world expert in them, and I could have sworn I had seen him before. Then they showed a clip of him driving a school bus, and it hit me: He drove my bus in elementary school!
So, really, a "trained ufologist" could be someone who is really interested in their hobby of looking at grainy photographs of saucer-shaped things.
I think a better analogy for a programmer is a watchmaker. We use skills few people possess to make complicated things that lots of other people rely on.
And, yeah, we tend to be overpaid for that. But if wages drop, we'll unionize and force them back up to where they were.
I've found that there are lots of places where recursion works really well. Anything where there's nesting of data that you're pulling out of a DB gets a 50% speed increase if you use recursion instead of for/foreach loops.
Discussion of others is fine. Criticism of others is okay, too. But I thought lawyers were taught good argument techniques, and that ad hominem attacks aren't part of making a good argument.
The page you linked to had a smart idea. Rather than just have the raw disks, create some sort of architecture inside to allow for rapid transmission of the data from the vehicle upon arrival. I could see specialized vehicles that have been hardened against an accident with an inverter to power the drives that have external fiber optic ports hooked up to massive, high speed RAID arrays to rapidly dump the contents to another system at the location and upload content for the next destination.
Then a GPS system in the front automatically generates a route for the driver and after a few hours of waiting for the data to transmit, off he goes!
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But then, like cable and DSL, they'll use the large numbers of people who don't need fast upload speeds to justify never rolling out symmetrical connections for the few people who want and would use fast upload speeds.
I have the option for telecommuting from work and do regular rsyncs to my web host (250GB drive-in-the-sky FTW) but I can only send files at 768kbps, and that's after upgrading to the fastest residential package Comcast offers. And Verizon's upload speeds are the same.
You wanna do research-level computing? You want to design and create brand new ways of computing? You want to work on AIs? Get a degree in CS.
If you want to code or do networking or project management, there are plenty of other courses out there that'll give you a much better education for that sort of job.
What happened towards the end of the dot-com boom is that people started to realize that CS wasn't exactly right for generating code monkeys, and colleges started offering different types of courses to fill these positions.
Yep. I better get back to plowing that field now before my Uncle Jacob sees me using this devil box.
Most wars are fought over resources. Hitler needed Leibensraum. The Japanese needed oil and raw materials, so they took China and Indonesia. Very very rarely are they fought for other reasons.
So rather than deploy weapons into space to defend terrestrial resources, why not get our resources from space? The cost to do either are pretty much the same, even using horribly inefficient defense contractors, and would benefit the same industries. One will result in a less secure world, and the other will result in a more secure world.
I don't dispute that. However, I'm not sure how well implementations are going to work when you've got, say, a Wii hooked to your TV, a Palm Treo as your phone, and a Windows box as your desktop. We need standardization to make sure that the information is able to be seamlessly integrated, and no company seems to want to open up.
If you don't want to uphold your end of the social contract "at the point of a gun," have fun living in a shack in the middle of the woods with no human contact.
All in ones are not the future. All in ones are good for a few things. Playing music, showing photos, making phone calls. Would you want to do photo editing or management on an iPhone? Would you want to do video editing or web browsing or email only on an iPhone? Of course not. You want a nice big screen and a real keyboard and mouse to do those things.
What Apple gets, and what I think is the future, is making all of these things work together. The iPhone syncs to your desktop at home. The Apple TV gets its content from your desktop at home. It's not about replacing your computer, it's about extending it.
I know I'd rather live in Lancaster, PA than Silicon Valley. Even if it has a ton of culture, sitting in my car for years of my life to get to it and then waiting in long lines to see said culture isn't appealing.
Thankfully, I found a job at a technology company near Lancaster.
85-90% of my journeys are me going alone to pick up a small, hand-carried item and returning home. I tend to wait until I have more than one errand before I go because of my car. But if the mass transit system was well-implemented I could do these trips fairly easily.
Thankfully, I live in a town where my main form of transportation is my own two feet, and my secondary form is my scooter.
My neighbors tend to frown upon me doing yard work at five in the morning. And my kids don't seem to want to get up before dawn to go ride bikes.
If it were the population distribution that made ultra-high speed broadband possible, then LA, New York, and Chicago would be able to have 100 megabit connections for $50/month.
Since they can barely break 10 megabits, it must be something other than population distribution that Japan and South Korea are doing right. And since the population density of Sweden is less than the population density of the United States and they're able to get ultra-high speed broadband, the population density argument is moot.
I imagine the cell company will configure them to monitor for low batteries and go check them out when they're not working properly.
That would be a great idea if everyone were completely independent. When someone declares bankruptcy, it affects me.
I can call my credit union's self service telephone and do anything I can do in front of a teller or online. I can check balances and transfer money and get cash advances or even a loan over the phone.
This reminds me of the time I was watching a show on Discovery about "lay lines." They were talking to a guy who was the world expert in them, and I could have sworn I had seen him before. Then they showed a clip of him driving a school bus, and it hit me: He drove my bus in elementary school!
So, really, a "trained ufologist" could be someone who is really interested in their hobby of looking at grainy photographs of saucer-shaped things.
I think a better analogy for a programmer is a watchmaker. We use skills few people possess to make complicated things that lots of other people rely on.
And, yeah, we tend to be overpaid for that. But if wages drop, we'll unionize and force them back up to where they were.
I've found that there are lots of places where recursion works really well. Anything where there's nesting of data that you're pulling out of a DB gets a 50% speed increase if you use recursion instead of for/foreach loops.
Man, I should try the "menial labor is beneath me" trick on my wife. I can't afford a servant, but a break would be nice.
Thankfully, we also have a comfortable couch.
Discussion of others is fine. Criticism of others is okay, too. But I thought lawyers were taught good argument techniques, and that ad hominem attacks aren't part of making a good argument.
But maybe that's why I'm not a lawyer.
They're not hoarding the data. They're storing it online in open formats, at least according to the article.
The page you linked to had a smart idea. Rather than just have the raw disks, create some sort of architecture inside to allow for rapid transmission of the data from the vehicle upon arrival. I could see specialized vehicles that have been hardened against an accident with an inverter to power the drives that have external fiber optic ports hooked up to massive, high speed RAID arrays to rapidly dump the contents to another system at the location and upload content for the next destination.
Then a GPS system in the front automatically generates a route for the driver and after a few hours of waiting for the data to transmit, off he goes!
Dunk the motherboard into a mineral oil bath and use a pump to move it around.
So what you're saying is that because one profit-driven monopoly failed, a service-driven monopoly will also fail.
Telescum sounds a lot like Comcast and Verizon.
Yes, in my part of the world, there are two companies as bad as Telescum!
News flash: We're the government. This is another $12.5 million we won't have to pay in taxes.