Internet service is not going to be affected one bit by Verizon putting their own TV/Phone over the fibre lines. The TV/Phone are going to have dedicated bandwidth that they get to use exclusively. Verizon has to add this in, which is why they are running the fibre to the home in the first place. Internet is still going to have the same ammount of bandwidth it always did, it's just not going to be alone anymore.
Based on everything I've heard, it's really Congress that we should be pointing the finger at, for the wasteland that is the USPTO lately.
Not just congress but also some of the courts. Of the courts there are two problems in seperate areas. The first is the courts that won't uphold ANY patent at all in serveral decades, even ones deserving of it. They have a very high percentage of their rulings overturned on appeal. The other are the ones that people go to to sue the USPTO to get them to accept a patent. The latter has undermined the obvious requirement so that the USPTO has to pretty much accept a patent no matter what. It's not just congress with the funding alone.
Instead of being used to pay for more patent examiners, it just gets sucked off into the General Fund, never to be seen again. And the USPTO gets what I suspect is a fraction of it back in its budget.
This is true for several other areas of the fed as well. NASA and DARPA/DOD patents have sold for several $billion at this point. It all goes into the general fund. NASA would be much better off financially if they could keep there patents at this point.
Let me try to clarify the original posters point. Cable companies have about 2ghz of frequency bandwidth on their coax cables going into the house. I'm not sure what this exactly translates to in mbit/s at 256QAM. Now, a large percentage of that is dedicated to analog TV, another percentage to H/DTV and the remainder pretty much for internet.
Now, Lets look at Verizon. They are providing a massive pipe into the home with the Fibre. Possibly even T3 speeds of 45Mbp/s. Now, there are two ways they can divy up that 45Mbps. They can have it all act as one single pipe with TV/Phone/Internet competing over their network where if too many people are downloading TV and Phone serverice will degrade. This is unlikely due to the consistent delay needed to run a proper phone conversation or for sending DTV packets.
The second option is this and is the most likely of the two. It is also essentially the way Cable Companies carve up their bandwidth. Carve up that 45mbps into three seperate garunteed service pipes. Your TV packets will always have 20Mbps available, even if it is only using ~5Mbps for SDTV, or 20Mbps for HDTV. Your phone packets will always have their own dedicated 50kbit bandwidth as well. This bandwidth, used or unused, will never be used by another service. This garuntees that the packets will arive on time and as scheduled and prevents chopy video/audio. The remained of what they choose to use is left over for Internet. A way to visualize this is three seperate cables in one conduit. The conduit is the fibre, the cables are the dedicated bandwidth for each service. Part of the reason this is more likely is that Verizon has to provide sufficient bandwidth such that all their TV channels can be watched in a given area at once. They are offering ~180 channels. So, say that needs 1Gbp/s bandwidth (assuming a mixture of HD&SD). This also allows for more efficient use of their fibre since they can provide one hundred, one thousand or ten thousand TVs with the same number of channels using the same bandwidth. They send out that fibre with all the TV stations to the local area, and then selectively send each one to the houses that request it. This means that they don't need to provide #houses*20Mbit the whole way for watching TV. It also cuts down on the equipment necessary as this way not every home needs an OC48 and only needs an OC1 or OC3 at most.
What the author seems to be complaining about is that the bandwidth, that is currently not being used at all, is not going to be used for providing internet but Verizons own TV and Phone service.
I'll give a road analogy since someone else gave (an incorect) one. Lets say you have a land for roads that is wide enough for 10 lanes. However, you currently have paved 3 lanes for internet. Now, you're going to expand it to 10 lanes. But, out of those 7 new lanes, 2 are going to be dedicated for phone communication and the other 5 are going to be dedicated for TV. You are not taking away any of the current bandwidth for internet, just not increasing it even though you are essentially using the same pipe.
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Where in X is Carmen Sandiego.
Space
The USA
The World
Time
Oregon Trail, Super Solvers X, Sim X, Number Munchers, some fish game I barely remember and more. They're still around, just so happens FPSs are getting all the news right now. Among others, try Pikmin as a more recent title.
The US Patent Office loves patents. Think about it. The more they approve, the more money they get. If Uncle Sam is addicted to anything it's not Crackberry, it's MONEY. The easier patents are to get, the more people apply for them. The more who apply, the more money USPO makes, the more employees they have, the more they can justify hiring more managers to manage more employees and so on. The USPO has no reason at all to favor a sane patent system. It would reduce their income.
You are so far offbase it's not even funny.
The USPO doesn't keep the patent application money even if it is granted. It all goes into the general fund, not to the department. If people apply for double the ammount of patents, they don't get even $1 more. Additionaly, if your patent is rejected, you do not get your money back.
The first part has been the primary problem with the patent office lately. They can't hire enough patent examiners since congress controls 100% of their purse strings so even if their work load doubles, their patent examiners remain pretty much the same.
Finally, the reasons patents have become so easy to get is that the courts have pretty much eliminated the obvious test completely. This has been their primary problem, not greed as you claim.
I was amazed when I learned about the man who used his lawnmower to trim his hedges and then sued the lawnmower company when he hurt himself because there were no safetys or warning labels.
I think my grandma was on that jury.
Another thing they need change is to require proof that damage has been caused, not meerley the potential for damage.
Max volume controlled by the player is only half the equation. The resistance in the headphones is the other half. This is realted to matched impedance in amplifiers, but I'll simplify it for people who aren't EE's. If you have two different headphones with two different resistances in them (unless you purposely choose two specific resistances), they will not have the same volume at the same setting in a music player. This is similar to home theater speakers that have 4 and 8 ohm impedances.
Crappier headphones generally have a higher impedance that higher quality headphones. As such, it is possible to have two sets of headphones where one will be painfully loud at half volume and one that is comfortable or quiet.
Trust me, I know. What's worse, it was the ORIGINAL PUBLISHER who censored it over various revisions prior to publication. The way Ray Bradbury found out about it was that a class he had shown the original manuscript to noticed the differences when compared to the first printing. I even have an old copy that has some, if not all, of the deletions in it somewhere.
Personally I'd like to see medical science be able to use some super advanced cloning tech to make me new spare parts from my own DNA so I wouldn't take immune supression drugs for life if I ever needed a transplant. But I don't really like the thought of creating and killing millions/billions of things that are/maybe/might be/could have been/sorta/etc humans to get there. I suspect a lot of folks are caught in that halfway position.
Easy solution. Clone animals (which Bush is not calling for a ban on), figure out how to produce only one organ during the cloning process. Once you have that, then it should be relatively easy to port it to humans. BTW, the main problem I fear of hapening with cloning currently is that people will treat fully sentient clones as living organ banks. I know we are a bit far from that right now, but that's what I see as one of the possible abuses (as percieved by me) that will come up.
The Governors of West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Kansas calls for a boycot of the Video Game "Red Neck Rampage" for portraying them as drunk gun-toting idiots who like to blow things up.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Airmont; And/Or Press; Bantam; Grosset; Longman; NAL; Pocket Bks. Excluded from the childrens' room in the Brooklyn, N.Y. Public Library (1876) and the Denver, Colo. Public Library (1876). Confiscated at the USSR border (1930). Removed from the seventh grade curriculum in the West Chester, Pa. schools (1994) after parents complained that it is too full of racially charged language.
Other books by Twain have been censored for using un-PC language. Additionaly, Farenheit-451 has been censored for using "foul language" and several other books.
You do realise that Strom Thurmond was a Democrat when he ran on a segregationist platform? That Republicans were the ones behind civil rights in the 50s/60s? And that "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" was said by Alabama Gov. George Wallace a Democrat?
The agrarian southern economy was the main reason it didn't boom in the 19th century. However, they did try to industrialize repeatedly. The primary problem was that the banks would never lend out money for a factory to be built in the southern states.
That said, the main reason that slavery lasted as long as it did and wasn't dieing out was due solely to the cotton gin. Without that one piece of mechanization, there never would have been a civil war.
If you're large enough, I'm going to assume that you have a decently sized backup diesel generator. Say one about 500kw. Talk to the power company about running it during peak hours and selling the electricity to them. I know one TV station that does this with their backup generator. When load gets high enough on the grid, they call up the transmitter site and they turn on the generator. The station gets paid enough from the power company to pay for maintainence and fuel for the generator.
As for more energy efficiency. I hope you don't bother with having a heating system in the building. The datacenter should put out enough heat to heat a large portion if not all of the rest of the building.
Who knows? Neither country has tested one for several decades. As is, Russia has about double the number the US does when including the ones in reserves. As to functioning delivery systems, nuclear capable bombers, fighters, ships and subs are operated by both countries.
As I understand it, if we re-enrich the nuclear material, the left over waste products will be about as radioactive as uranium ore. In other words, we can store the waste in the same mines we took it out of. Additionaly, the waste will decay to "safe" levels in about 100 years or so. Much less than that tens of thousands that current "waste" would last.
This also means that the ships can be made safer as they won't rise in the water so high as they burn through the fuel. Rather, they'll stay at the same low-level throughout their entire trip, ensuring that the ship is kept stable even in poor weather.
Ships already have balast tanks that they fill as they burn fuel or hold less cargo weight to ride lower in the water. This is partly why an oil tanker doesn't bob like a top when crossing the ocean empty.
As for putting reactors in ships, US Nuclear carriers are probably a start for anyone attempting to do this. I think that the next gen (and possibly the current gen) are just as large as the current class of nuclear supercarriers. So, it would help. The only problem is that you need multiple fully trained nuclear technicians to watch the reactors. Hmm... Maybe they can get them from the navy when they retire. The multi megawatt electric motors the US Navy is investing in testing/developing would help this a long way. (Electric drive allows for fewer reactors, as you don't need to dedicate one reactor per screw)
Most roads use oil (asphalt/tar), as do farmers (petrolium based fertilizers, tractors), Plastics (used in cars, computers, hospitals), Rubber, Motor Oil/Lubricants (even electric cars need that) and oh, probably a few dozen more things that I haven't listed.
Yeah, I highly doubt sweden is going to be oil-free anytime soon.
If they think that modifying these images isn't unetherical, then how about the data?
Probably depends on how the images are modified. If I take a series of images and combine them to form one large image, I don't see a problem with that. It allows people to see the full picture at once. If I take them and erase one thing or add something that wasn't there to begin with, that is something else entirely. It all depends on the modifications.
Thanks for the link and the clarification. I remember hearing about this and agree this one is "obvious". Lets hope the SCOTUS takes it up and overturns the lower court.
You would be able to show you made an effort to produce and distribute your invention, but were unable to due to lack of funds.
At which point you'd be stuck under the current system again, where you can claim you went to company A, they denied you, and sue company B. Of course, it just so happens that company A is a "friend" of yours, and a portion exists only to deny licensing of your patents.
Besides, you wouldn't try to license the patent to a manufacturer, you would go to a venture capital firm and give them a portion of your profits in return for the money to manufacture and distribute the invention.
Why not? Lets say I develope a new toy, colored bubbles, where the bubbles blown are blue. Why not go to an existing coporotation, say Hasbro, who already has all the equipment necessary to mass market and mass produce the product? Why would I want to have to create the entire manufacturing line from scratch when I can go to another company and have them do it?
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Internet service is not going to be affected one bit by Verizon putting their own TV/Phone over the fibre lines. The TV/Phone are going to have dedicated bandwidth that they get to use exclusively. Verizon has to add this in, which is why they are running the fibre to the home in the first place. Internet is still going to have the same ammount of bandwidth it always did, it's just not going to be alone anymore.
Based on everything I've heard, it's really Congress that we should be pointing the finger at, for the wasteland that is the USPTO lately.
Not just congress but also some of the courts. Of the courts there are two problems in seperate areas. The first is the courts that won't uphold ANY patent at all in serveral decades, even ones deserving of it. They have a very high percentage of their rulings overturned on appeal. The other are the ones that people go to to sue the USPTO to get them to accept a patent. The latter has undermined the obvious requirement so that the USPTO has to pretty much accept a patent no matter what. It's not just congress with the funding alone.
Instead of being used to pay for more patent examiners, it just gets sucked off into the General Fund, never to be seen again. And the USPTO gets what I suspect is a fraction of it back in its budget.
This is true for several other areas of the fed as well. NASA and DARPA/DOD patents have sold for several $billion at this point. It all goes into the general fund. NASA would be much better off financially if they could keep there patents at this point.
Let me try to clarify the original posters point. Cable companies have about 2ghz of frequency bandwidth on their coax cables going into the house. I'm not sure what this exactly translates to in mbit/s at 256QAM. Now, a large percentage of that is dedicated to analog TV, another percentage to H/DTV and the remainder pretty much for internet.
Now, Lets look at Verizon. They are providing a massive pipe into the home with the Fibre. Possibly even T3 speeds of 45Mbp/s. Now, there are two ways they can divy up that 45Mbps. They can have it all act as one single pipe with TV/Phone/Internet competing over their network where if too many people are downloading TV and Phone serverice will degrade. This is unlikely due to the consistent delay needed to run a proper phone conversation or for sending DTV packets.
The second option is this and is the most likely of the two. It is also essentially the way Cable Companies carve up their bandwidth. Carve up that 45mbps into three seperate garunteed service pipes. Your TV packets will always have 20Mbps available, even if it is only using ~5Mbps for SDTV, or 20Mbps for HDTV. Your phone packets will always have their own dedicated 50kbit bandwidth as well. This bandwidth, used or unused, will never be used by another service. This garuntees that the packets will arive on time and as scheduled and prevents chopy video/audio. The remained of what they choose to use is left over for Internet. A way to visualize this is three seperate cables in one conduit. The conduit is the fibre, the cables are the dedicated bandwidth for each service. Part of the reason this is more likely is that Verizon has to provide sufficient bandwidth such that all their TV channels can be watched in a given area at once. They are offering ~180 channels. So, say that needs 1Gbp/s bandwidth (assuming a mixture of HD&SD). This also allows for more efficient use of their fibre since they can provide one hundred, one thousand or ten thousand TVs with the same number of channels using the same bandwidth. They send out that fibre with all the TV stations to the local area, and then selectively send each one to the houses that request it. This means that they don't need to provide #houses*20Mbit the whole way for watching TV. It also cuts down on the equipment necessary as this way not every home needs an OC48 and only needs an OC1 or OC3 at most.
What the author seems to be complaining about is that the bandwidth, that is currently not being used at all, is not going to be used for providing internet but Verizons own TV and Phone service.
I'll give a road analogy since someone else gave (an incorect) one. Lets say you have a land for roads that is wide enough for 10 lanes. However, you currently have paved 3 lanes for internet. Now, you're going to expand it to 10 lanes. But, out of those 7 new lanes, 2 are going to be dedicated for phone communication and the other 5 are going to be dedicated for TV. You are not taking away any of the current bandwidth for internet, just not increasing it even though you are essentially using the same pipe.
Where in X is Carmen Sandiego.
Space
The USA
The World
Time
Oregon Trail, Super Solvers X, Sim X, Number Munchers, some fish game I barely remember and more. They're still around, just so happens FPSs are getting all the news right now. Among others, try Pikmin as a more recent title.
The US Patent Office loves patents. Think about it. The more they approve, the more money they get. If Uncle Sam is addicted to anything it's not Crackberry, it's MONEY. The easier patents are to get, the more people apply for them. The more who apply, the more money USPO makes, the more employees they have, the more they can justify hiring more managers to manage more employees and so on. The USPO has no reason at all to favor a sane patent system. It would reduce their income.
You are so far offbase it's not even funny.
The USPO doesn't keep the patent application money even if it is granted. It all goes into the general fund, not to the department. If people apply for double the ammount of patents, they don't get even $1 more. Additionaly, if your patent is rejected, you do not get your money back.
The first part has been the primary problem with the patent office lately. They can't hire enough patent examiners since congress controls 100% of their purse strings so even if their work load doubles, their patent examiners remain pretty much the same.
Finally, the reasons patents have become so easy to get is that the courts have pretty much eliminated the obvious test completely. This has been their primary problem, not greed as you claim.
I was amazed when I learned about the man who used his lawnmower to trim his hedges and then sued the lawnmower company when he hurt himself because there were no safetys or warning labels.
I think my grandma was on that jury.
Another thing they need change is to require proof that damage has been caused, not meerley the potential for damage.
Max volume controlled by the player is only half the equation. The resistance in the headphones is the other half. This is realted to matched impedance in amplifiers, but I'll simplify it for people who aren't EE's. If you have two different headphones with two different resistances in them (unless you purposely choose two specific resistances), they will not have the same volume at the same setting in a music player. This is similar to home theater speakers that have 4 and 8 ohm impedances.
Crappier headphones generally have a higher impedance that higher quality headphones. As such, it is possible to have two sets of headphones where one will be painfully loud at half volume and one that is comfortable or quiet.
Trust me, I know. What's worse, it was the ORIGINAL PUBLISHER who censored it over various revisions prior to publication. The way Ray Bradbury found out about it was that a class he had shown the original manuscript to noticed the differences when compared to the first printing. I even have an old copy that has some, if not all, of the deletions in it somewhere.
Personally I'd like to see medical science be able to use some super advanced cloning tech to make me new spare parts from my own DNA so I wouldn't take immune supression drugs for life if I ever needed a transplant. But I don't really like the thought of creating and killing millions/billions of things that are/maybe/might be/could have been/sorta/etc humans to get there. I suspect a lot of folks are caught in that halfway position.
Easy solution. Clone animals (which Bush is not calling for a ban on), figure out how to produce only one organ during the cloning process. Once you have that, then it should be relatively easy to port it to humans. BTW, the main problem I fear of hapening with cloning currently is that people will treat fully sentient clones as living organ banks. I know we are a bit far from that right now, but that's what I see as one of the possible abuses (as percieved by me) that will come up.
That put a smile on everyones face. Democrat and Republican alike. It looked to me like Bush even started to laugh at that.
The Governors of West Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Georgia, Tennessee and Kansas calls for a boycot of the Video Game "Red Neck Rampage" for portraying them as drunk gun-toting idiots who like to blow things up.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]. Airmont; And/Or Press; Bantam; Grosset; Longman; NAL; Pocket Bks. Excluded from the childrens' room in the Brooklyn, N.Y. Public Library (1876) and the Denver, Colo. Public Library (1876). Confiscated at the USSR border (1930). Removed from the seventh grade curriculum in the West Chester, Pa. schools (1994) after parents complained that it is too full of racially charged language.
http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/
Other books by Twain have been censored for using un-PC language. Additionaly, Farenheit-451 has been censored for using "foul language" and several other books.
You do realise that Strom Thurmond was a Democrat when he ran on a segregationist platform? That Republicans were the ones behind civil rights in the 50s/60s? And that "segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever" was said by Alabama Gov. George Wallace a Democrat?
The agrarian southern economy was the main reason it didn't boom in the 19th century. However, they did try to industrialize repeatedly. The primary problem was that the banks would never lend out money for a factory to be built in the southern states.
That said, the main reason that slavery lasted as long as it did and wasn't dieing out was due solely to the cotton gin. Without that one piece of mechanization, there never would have been a civil war.
If you're large enough, I'm going to assume that you have a decently sized backup diesel generator. Say one about 500kw. Talk to the power company about running it during peak hours and selling the electricity to them. I know one TV station that does this with their backup generator. When load gets high enough on the grid, they call up the transmitter site and they turn on the generator. The station gets paid enough from the power company to pay for maintainence and fuel for the generator.
As for more energy efficiency. I hope you don't bother with having a heating system in the building. The datacenter should put out enough heat to heat a large portion if not all of the rest of the building.
Yup, so I guess it should be said the basis of all life (we know of) on earth is from four amino acids.
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http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99
Who knows? Neither country has tested one for several decades. As is, Russia has about double the number the US does when including the ones in reserves. As to functioning delivery systems, nuclear capable bombers, fighters, ships and subs are operated by both countries.
Why are all organisms on Earth based on DNA?
Not all organisims on earth are based on DNA. Some viruses are based on RNA.
1) no we don't. Russia still has more nukes than the US. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4586829.stm
As I understand it, if we re-enrich the nuclear material, the left over waste products will be about as radioactive as uranium ore. In other words, we can store the waste in the same mines we took it out of. Additionaly, the waste will decay to "safe" levels in about 100 years or so. Much less than that tens of thousands that current "waste" would last.
This also means that the ships can be made safer as they won't rise in the water so high as they burn through the fuel. Rather, they'll stay at the same low-level throughout their entire trip, ensuring that the ship is kept stable even in poor weather.
Ships already have balast tanks that they fill as they burn fuel or hold less cargo weight to ride lower in the water. This is partly why an oil tanker doesn't bob like a top when crossing the ocean empty.
As for putting reactors in ships, US Nuclear carriers are probably a start for anyone attempting to do this. I think that the next gen (and possibly the current gen) are just as large as the current class of nuclear supercarriers. So, it would help. The only problem is that you need multiple fully trained nuclear technicians to watch the reactors. Hmm... Maybe they can get them from the navy when they retire. The multi megawatt electric motors the US Navy is investing in testing/developing would help this a long way. (Electric drive allows for fewer reactors, as you don't need to dedicate one reactor per screw)
Most roads use oil (asphalt/tar), as do farmers (petrolium based fertilizers, tractors), Plastics (used in cars, computers, hospitals), Rubber, Motor Oil/Lubricants (even electric cars need that) and oh, probably a few dozen more things that I haven't listed.
Yeah, I highly doubt sweden is going to be oil-free anytime soon.
If they think that modifying these images isn't unetherical, then how about the data?
Probably depends on how the images are modified. If I take a series of images and combine them to form one large image, I don't see a problem with that. It allows people to see the full picture at once. If I take them and erase one thing or add something that wasn't there to begin with, that is something else entirely. It all depends on the modifications.
Thanks for the link and the clarification. I remember hearing about this and agree this one is "obvious". Lets hope the SCOTUS takes it up and overturns the lower court.
You would be able to show you made an effort to produce and distribute your invention, but were unable to due to lack of funds.
At which point you'd be stuck under the current system again, where you can claim you went to company A, they denied you, and sue company B. Of course, it just so happens that company A is a "friend" of yours, and a portion exists only to deny licensing of your patents.
Besides, you wouldn't try to license the patent to a manufacturer, you would go to a venture capital firm and give them a portion of your profits in return for the money to manufacture and distribute the invention.
Why not? Lets say I develope a new toy, colored bubbles, where the bubbles blown are blue. Why not go to an existing coporotation, say Hasbro, who already has all the equipment necessary to mass market and mass produce the product? Why would I want to have to create the entire manufacturing line from scratch when I can go to another company and have them do it?