Not being snarky, honest question - why are you rebooting a machine with 3 raid controllers? I mean I understand maybe occasionally (once every few months?) but at that point who cares if it takes 5 minutes to boot up?
Must be a first gen air? I've got a second generation macbook air (core2duo) and I'm at a full loaded desktop in 9 seconds. But I haven't turned it off except for an update in probably 4 months. With 30 days of standby time I treat it like an iPad. It just stays on all the time and when I want to use it I open it up. Every couple of weeks I'll charge it for an hour.
You're using an arbitrary argument - "it doesn't give me a familiar set of userland tools so somehow it's not linux". It makes no sense. Access "under the hood" doesn't change the platform underneath.
Which is relevant absolutely, but what if that's far longer than the expected life (or warranty) of the hardware it's in? Consumer laptops last what, maybe 3-5 years? 99% of consumers will never wear out MLC NAND in 3-5 years of normal, or even high, use of a laptop. So it's largely moot. I've been using SSDs for years now and I'm still waiting for all these problems the harbingers of doom have been espousing on slashdot the entire time. And I have some really early (first generation vertex) drives and I'm still waiting for my first problem.
Not including embedded devices is incredibly arbritray when there are more smartphones sold than PCs. You're ignoring the fact that a smartphone is a handheld computer. For many people it's their _only_ computer. It's a fundamental shift in computing and ignoring it is a vast oversight.
It's just staggering, absolutely. The other thing to consider is not only the number of activations but the incredible rate of increase in activations per day by android devices. I remember about a year ago it was only about 200k android activations per day.
Broadcasting a specific SSID from an AP that uses a captive portal and is routed out to the Internet and firewalled from other networks is not "insecure". Article is absolutely meaningless.
Not even close, linux dominates in the server world and Android is based on linux, which is outselling the iPhone quite easily (up to 550,000 android devices activated PER DAY).
Overall infrastructure cost of the broadband system: $34,157,255, which includes (a) $5,825,811.76 for
the 75-mile Phase 1 middle-mile fiber backbone extension; (b) $16,814,342.67 for the 283-mile Phase 2
last-mile fiber network; and (c) $11,517,100.76 for the 207-mile Phase 3 last mile fiber network. j
That's $9,594 per site. (3,200 homes, 360 businesses). If it cost $100 per site it will take 8 years to pay off the infrastructure, not including any additional expenditures (or overruns). That doesn't include operation, maintenance, upgrades, repairs - nothing, that's just deployment cost. That also doesn't include upstream bandwidth to the Internet. This also doesn't say anything about the cost of connecting from the street to the home, which will easily run into the thousand(s) of dollars per node. This was paid for from tax dollars from highly populated areas redistributed for projects in rural areas.
Bottom line is - If you want to open a business to break even in about 20 years, be my guest. The only reason this is happening is because of the ARRA:
Construction of the PUD’s fiber optic system in the southern portion of Pend Oreille County will begin in early June. Initially, PUD customers can expect to see contractor and subcontractor crews working in multiple areas south of Newport. Tetra Tech Construction Services is the general contractor hired for the construction of the fiber optic system. Mountain Power Construction is the general contractor hired to perform the power “make-ready” work on the PUD’s existing overhead lines. Both contractors will also have subcontractors, such as tree trimmers, working on their projects. Contractor trucks will display the PUD and the American Recovery Reinvestment Act Broadband USA signs.
You're welcome. Believe me when I say the tax dollars from the county (13,000 people) wouldn't even come CLOSE to funding something like this.
He was talking about water/sewage systems which you just pointed out that you don't have. In the city when we refer to water and sewage systems we're using it in contrast to wells and septic systems.
"Supporting" and "delivering near-gigabit-speeds" to rural areas is not the same thing. We have to find some cost effective model that makes economic sense. I think our best bet is 4G, which Verizon Wireless plans to blanket something like 98% of the US with. I don't demand farmers deliver me food for the same price it costs to take it to the local market, because I understand it costs a lot more to ship it to a city.
Rural highways were some of the last to get cell coverage exactly because of that reason. For a very long time you couldn't even opt to pay more - there was no option at all. So that's really a terrible argument.
Sure, as long as I pay the same delivery charge for that food that you charge to the guy that lives a mile down the road. Oh, what's that? It's more expensive to deliver that food to the city so your charge more? Interesting.
Broadband is a way of sending data. Broadband does not describe the amount of data. not the bandwidth or latency. We need'ed to establish at least a minimum delivery rate.
Although various minimum bandwidths have been used in definitions of broadband, ranging from 64 kbit/s up to 4.0 Mbit/s,[1] the 2006 OECD report[2] defined broadband as having download data transfer rates equal to or faster than 256 kbit/s, while the United States (US) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as of 2010, defines "Basic Broadband" as data transmission speeds of at least 4 megabits per second (Mbps), or 4,000,000 bits per second, downstream (from the Internet to the user’s computer) and 1 Mbit/s upstream (from the user’s computer to the Internet).[3] The trend is to raise the threshold of the broadband definition as the marketplace rolls out faster services.[4]
Seriously, you people need to come up with a more representative adjective than "Americans"...which also applies to canadians, mexicans, colombians, argentinians, chileans, brazilians, venezuelans, peruvians, haitians, cubans (there, I said it) and so many many more...
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Not being snarky, honest question - why are you rebooting a machine with 3 raid controllers? I mean I understand maybe occasionally (once every few months?) but at that point who cares if it takes 5 minutes to boot up?
Must be a first gen air? I've got a second generation macbook air (core2duo) and I'm at a full loaded desktop in 9 seconds. But I haven't turned it off except for an update in probably 4 months. With 30 days of standby time I treat it like an iPad. It just stays on all the time and when I want to use it I open it up. Every couple of weeks I'll charge it for an hour.
You should consider reading the article. No one is suggesting that you replace DRAM with NAND.
You're using an arbitrary argument - "it doesn't give me a familiar set of userland tools so somehow it's not linux". It makes no sense. Access "under the hood" doesn't change the platform underneath.
Which is relevant absolutely, but what if that's far longer than the expected life (or warranty) of the hardware it's in? Consumer laptops last what, maybe 3-5 years? 99% of consumers will never wear out MLC NAND in 3-5 years of normal, or even high, use of a laptop. So it's largely moot. I've been using SSDs for years now and I'm still waiting for all these problems the harbingers of doom have been espousing on slashdot the entire time. And I have some really early (first generation vertex) drives and I'm still waiting for my first problem.
Ahem, you mean why god made our eyes to see that part of the spectrum. Don't forget that we have to placate all of Texas.
You really think old Wild Bill is the first person to come up with this?
Not including embedded devices is incredibly arbritray when there are more smartphones sold than PCs. You're ignoring the fact that a smartphone is a handheld computer. For many people it's their _only_ computer. It's a fundamental shift in computing and ignoring it is a vast oversight.
It's just staggering, absolutely. The other thing to consider is not only the number of activations but the incredible rate of increase in activations per day by android devices. I remember about a year ago it was only about 200k android activations per day.
Broadcasting a specific SSID from an AP that uses a captive portal and is routed out to the Internet and firewalled from other networks is not "insecure". Article is absolutely meaningless.
Do you have some current numbers? Because at 550k activations per day if Android hasn't caught up yet, it will soon.
http://www.businessinsider.com/android-iphone-market-share-2011-4
Not for much longer, Android is up to 550k activations per day.
Not even close, linux dominates in the server world and Android is based on linux, which is outselling the iPhone quite easily (up to 550,000 android devices activated PER DAY).
You sure? (reporting in from pensacola by the way! hey neighbor!)
Overall infrastructure cost of the broadband system: $34,157,255, which includes (a) $5,825,811.76 for the 75-mile Phase 1 middle-mile fiber backbone extension; (b) $16,814,342.67 for the 283-mile Phase 2 last-mile fiber network; and (c) $11,517,100.76 for the 207-mile Phase 3 last mile fiber network. j
That's $9,594 per site. (3,200 homes, 360 businesses). If it cost $100 per site it will take 8 years to pay off the infrastructure, not including any additional expenditures (or overruns). That doesn't include operation, maintenance, upgrades, repairs - nothing, that's just deployment cost. That also doesn't include upstream bandwidth to the Internet. This also doesn't say anything about the cost of connecting from the street to the home, which will easily run into the thousand(s) of dollars per node. This was paid for from tax dollars from highly populated areas redistributed for projects in rural areas.
Bottom line is - If you want to open a business to break even in about 20 years, be my guest. The only reason this is happening is because of the ARRA:
Construction of the PUD’s fiber optic system in the southern portion of Pend Oreille County will begin in early June. Initially, PUD customers can expect to see contractor and subcontractor crews working in multiple areas south of Newport. Tetra Tech Construction Services is the general contractor hired for the construction of the fiber optic system. Mountain Power Construction is the general contractor hired to perform the power “make-ready” work on the PUD’s existing overhead lines. Both contractors will also have subcontractors, such as tree trimmers, working on their projects. Contractor trucks will display the PUD and the American Recovery Reinvestment Act Broadband USA signs.
You're welcome. Believe me when I say the tax dollars from the county (13,000 people) wouldn't even come CLOSE to funding something like this.
He was talking about water/sewage systems which you just pointed out that you don't have. In the city when we refer to water and sewage systems we're using it in contrast to wells and septic systems.
Municipal fiber plant makes sense a single strand of fiber can do 40gb or more each direction with current consumer tech.
What fucking "consumer" has access to 40Gb/s optical gear!?
consumer/knsoomr/Noun 1. A person who purchases goods and services for personal use.
"Supporting" and "delivering near-gigabit-speeds" to rural areas is not the same thing. We have to find some cost effective model that makes economic sense. I think our best bet is 4G, which Verizon Wireless plans to blanket something like 98% of the US with. I don't demand farmers deliver me food for the same price it costs to take it to the local market, because I understand it costs a lot more to ship it to a city.
Rural highways were some of the last to get cell coverage exactly because of that reason. For a very long time you couldn't even opt to pay more - there was no option at all. So that's really a terrible argument.
Sure, as long as I pay the same delivery charge for that food that you charge to the guy that lives a mile down the road. Oh, what's that? It's more expensive to deliver that food to the city so your charge more? Interesting.
Broadband is a way of sending data. Broadband does not describe the amount of data. not the bandwidth or latency. We need'ed to establish at least a minimum delivery rate.
Although various minimum bandwidths have been used in definitions of broadband, ranging from 64 kbit/s up to 4.0 Mbit/s,[1] the 2006 OECD report[2] defined broadband as having download data transfer rates equal to or faster than 256 kbit/s, while the United States (US) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as of 2010, defines "Basic Broadband" as data transmission speeds of at least 4 megabits per second (Mbps), or 4,000,000 bits per second, downstream (from the Internet to the user’s computer) and 1 Mbit/s upstream (from the user’s computer to the Internet).[3] The trend is to raise the threshold of the broadband definition as the marketplace rolls out faster services.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Internet_access
I don't get it, we have local-loop unbundling in the US, why don't we see the same competition?
Personally, I often find myself longing for the higher sound quality of a fully-wired phone line versus that of a cell phone. Isn't that ironic?
Sounds like you've never used HD Voice.
Seriously, you people need to come up with a more representative adjective than "Americans"...which also applies to canadians, mexicans, colombians, argentinians, chileans, brazilians, venezuelans, peruvians, haitians, cubans (there, I said it) and so many many more...
No, you just need a better understanding of geography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
IBM's Watson beat Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter at Jepordy and you'd rather have the 20 year old Indian guy on the other end of the line? Really?