How about a competitive marketplace for cable television?
Why do you think the phone companies are building out fibre networks? It's not for pure internet. They want to compete with the cable networks for TV as well. Verizon is one of them.
Any ideas on if they are capping download speeds, blocking ports, or max download per month? Is this going to be an always on 100k speed or what? This probably won't be for anyone beyond the Joe Sixpack user of email, IM and websurfing. I'm pretty sure no one downloading a linux distro over bittorrent isn't going to be using this.
The Madison network will be rolled out at no cost to the city and the providers have secured initial funding from service agreements from ISPs.
Hmmm... No tax dollars being used, sounds good to me. How are they getting funding? A subscription fee or what?
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Killing each other comes much more naturally, and a large percentage of our technological advances revolve around finding ways to kill each other more efficiently.
While true, there is also a lot devoted to keeping soldiers alive. Penicillin didn't come into widespread use until after a method was devised to mass produce it. It wasn't until during WWII that efficient mass production was developed. Then you have various spin off technologies that have come from it. My hiking boots have shoe laces with teflon in them to make them stronger. A lot of medical monitoring technology has come from NASA and the DoD. I wouldn't be surprised if Medical Filters used in embergency rooms are based off of gas masks. Lightweight wheelchairs came about from needing a lighter wheel chair to get the first astronauts off the space ships (when they could barely walk). How many alloys came about from the need of stronger armor and braces? Think about how useful radar is to us today. The microwave was invented/discovered by a military radar technician who realized his choclate bar melted when he walked past the radar array. Oh the list goes on and on on both sides of the equation.
While some of this may have been discovered sooner or later during peacefull reasearch, it wouldn't have been discovered as soon.
Since the grand parent is an AC I can't really ask him this and get an answere. How does the Gov encourage "breeders" and mariage? I can understand the "breeder" part somewhat with the child credit. However, there is still the mariage penalty when two people get married. Any ideas?
It was obvious that Bush would appoint at least one new Supreme Court justice, and that he would almost certainly chose an anti-Roe nominee, whereas Kerry would almost certainly chose a pro-Roe nominee.
Fact is, we have WAAAAAY too many people in jail as it is. If we were to only charge and incarcerate those who pose a safety risk to the rest of society then you could probably monitor the entire population in half as many facilities with 1/3 of the correctional officers we have today.
Unfortunately, some people who are not dangerous are not detered by anything short of prison. Even after some prison time, some will still repeat the offense. Look up Maricopa County's Tent City Jail.
The basic reason for DST is that some of us don't like having the sun up at 4 AM and still trying to get sleep. By shifting the clocks to 5am, that gives an extra hour of sunlight in the evening and 1 less of having as many lights on.
As for Indiana going to DST, my understanding is that since it had a time zone running right down the middle of it, it didn't make sense for it to switch.
Kinney believes that the industry would be better able to defend itself with an independent system, rather one that was set up by the industry itself.
So when do Movies get their own independant system like this? If we "need" one for games and TV already has (a detailed) one, when do the movies get their own version of this? Although, does anyone know if the TV reviews are actually independant or by the producers/networks?
It ironic then that the best developed countries in Africa today are those where European colonisation was strongest, compare e.g. Kenya (British colony - exports ~ $2.5 billion) and Uganda (British Protectorate - exports ~ $600 million).
As I understand it, the British, went to the trouble of preparing the colonies, teaching them how to set up a decent government and generally preparing beforehand for the transition. The French basically said to their colonies, "you're on your own now". Pretty much all the countries we here about (the ones that have problems) are ex-French colonies.
I'm still wondering if this is being used as a legalistic loophole or an honest concern about false arrest. I mean, there is a blood test that has been shown to be just as good or better than a breathalizer.
A blood test would require either a court order/warrant or permision by the person the blood is to be taken from. Seeing as how this is for drunk drivers, people usually want the results back fairly quickly. Blood tests usually take a while unless you want troopers carrying around a whole lot of needles and test equipment. Even then there are people, like me, who would not be able to physically drive for at least 20 minutes after having blood drawn. Then there are a few other things they could test blood for that people would object to. Some meds can give false positives for illegal drugs.
Currently the only way they can check for blood alcohol levels is throug breath analyzers. Blood is out.
One of the UN's main goals is to promote "income redistribution". Which basically means, since there are rich countries, and poor countries, they want to make us all poor:)
Equality at the lowest common denominator. Sounds applicable to a few other areas as well.
That would be this story. That was about putting what is essentially a full LCD monitor into magazines and newspapers. This is about a non-volatile version that will still display the picture/text after the electricity is cut off.
I was wondering if the ground line was a major reason for this. He does not live in Tokyo, but he does live in a nearby suburb of it.
Currently the large majority of the US phone network is copper. Due to the "time sharing" that was invented about 100 years ago the max speed possible is 56k over a normal phone line. Even that requires some interesting math discoveries.
DSL bypases the time sharing and gives a straight hard line directly to the central office. The reason for the distance limits on DSL is due to distortion over long copper lines. The longer the line, the more distorted the original signal gets. This is why they farther you are from the central office, the slower the speeds you get. How Stuff Works has some info on this.
In order to get faster, the phone companies are installing fibre. I remember reading somewhere that that is what Japan has essentially done. It is still called DSL since it is from the phone company and is stil a digital line. Verizon, my local phone company, is currently working on installing fibre to the home. Already, we qualify for DSL, where a few years ago we did not. (Currently we have cable by Cox.) Hmm... Their 3mb DSL service is a bit cheaper than the 5mb Cox service. They have a DSL 768k/128k for $15/month. That is much better than our old 56k dial up that cost $20/month. So it is improving. We don't yet qualify for their fibre service, it hasn't been put out to this area yet. However, the fibre service they are offering 15mbps for $45. They are also offering HDTV over those connections. By the way, I live in a relatively unpopulated area. Fairfax County, VA. 1 Million people, 395 square miles. We have under 1000 people per kilometer^2 compared to Tokyos 13400.
As I understand it, the largest delay was due to the telcos wanting to make sure they didn't have to open up their brand new fibre networks to rivals. Probably since they wouldn't be able to pay off the investment of fibre at whole sale prices.
All the states listed are pretty socialist, compared to the US anyway. I wonder if France and Canada and so-forth have subsidised internet from the government.
He says he pays $50 a month for a DSL line that gets 34 megabits down and 5 megabits up.
First, I'm guessing that his DSL line is fibre optic cable. Many telcos are currently in the process of replacing all the copper with fibre. It takes time to replace that many miles of copper. Second, he wouldn't happen to live in the city now, would he?
In the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Congress directed the FCC to oversee the timely deployment of Internet services that "enable users to originate and receive high quality voice, data, graphics, and video telecommunications." Currently, this requirement translates into an Internet connection with typical download and upload speeds between 10 Mbps and 20 Mbps (megabits, or million bits, per second)
Can someone tell me where they get that 10-20Mbps number from? I can get pretty good video over a 4Mbps connection.
Actually if people used PVR systems they would get used to the "downloading" or recording of shows and then watching them when they want where they want. Using a PVR (mythtv, tivo, freevo) system changes the way people watch TV. About the only type of shows that anyone would want to watch "real time" would be sporting events or space launches. Most everything else does not suffer anything by being watched at a later time.
You can add some types of news into that list of yours. If there is a tornado, blizzard, flash flood warning or a few other things headed my way I want to know NOW. TV via the Emergency Broadcasting Service and Emergency Interuptions helps people find out what they need to know quickly. Additionaly, the Amber Alert notifications use this kind of system as well. Those kinds of emergencies work well for TV and Radio broadcasts. Not so well with websites. Especially when during a "Severe winter storm" most likely my internet connection has gone out due to power loss. A radio will work, mainly due to batteries and that broadcasters keep large generators on hand. I can't see that working in the model Daniel Fisher proposes.
As a VW buff, I have to wonder why the hell people can't spell "Volkswagen" correctly. It's not THAT HARD.
In a nutshell, because it's a German word. Most of us that speak english when we hear "wagen" think "wagon" in our heads as they sound close enough to be identical.
Letting people blast away at 200mw is bad enough, imagine the mess that'll ensue if you do that with higher power transmitters.
High Power Transmitters. adj.
1) Enough RF to cook your eyeballs while they are still inside your head.
2) Enough RF to make you smell like a cooked thanksgiving turkey.
That raises the question of why Rupert Murdoch, say, needs exclusive access to a slice of the radio spectrum for his Fox television network when he could just as easily put his content out over the Internet for customers to pick up using low-powered wi-fi receivers hooked into the Web.
So his argument is that because stations can send out information over the internet, TV is obsolete? There's at least one problem here. Aside from the necessary internet bandwidth required, not everyone has a computer/good enough computer/internet connection/broadband internet connection. Additionaly, the bandwidth necessary to send out a TV program at equivalent quality to what is on TV has barely made it to most homes. Even my 5mbit cable modem would be too low a bitrate for some programs. Not to mention the new HDTV is going to be 20 mbits. People want to watch in real time, not download and then watch.
Then there are the non-TV usages for satelites, which hapens to be covered under the FCC as well. Last I checked we still had some places in the US that are on party lines, and some don't even have phone service yet, and he expects them to have internet?.
As for "inteligent radios" and such, I'd like to see them work in an area where someone is blasting out there own multi megawatt signal.
Gah, there are so many things that the FCC currently does I can't even list them all.
I suspect that this discussion will be referenced on whatever media outlet he ends up on (likely Fox News, if you want to call what they do journalism) to prove that we "nerds" are a bunch of psychos who are addicted to violent video games and our threats to "run down Jack Thompson with an 18-wheeler" as the AC who posted that comment said will be used as proof of that.
How do you know it wasn't Jack Thompson or one of the people who work for him that posted that comment as an AC here on slashdot?
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How about a competitive marketplace for cable television?
Why do you think the phone companies are building out fibre networks? It's not for pure internet. They want to compete with the cable networks for TV as well. Verizon is one of them.
Any ideas on if they are capping download speeds, blocking ports, or max download per month? Is this going to be an always on 100k speed or what? This probably won't be for anyone beyond the Joe Sixpack user of email, IM and websurfing. I'm pretty sure no one downloading a linux distro over bittorrent isn't going to be using this.
The Madison network will be rolled out at no cost to the city and the providers have secured initial funding from service agreements from ISPs.
Hmmm... No tax dollars being used, sounds good to me. How are they getting funding? A subscription fee or what?
Killing each other comes much more naturally, and a large percentage of our technological advances revolve around finding ways to kill each other more efficiently.
While true, there is also a lot devoted to keeping soldiers alive. Penicillin didn't come into widespread use until after a method was devised to mass produce it. It wasn't until during WWII that efficient mass production was developed. Then you have various spin off technologies that have come from it. My hiking boots have shoe laces with teflon in them to make them stronger. A lot of medical monitoring technology has come from NASA and the DoD. I wouldn't be surprised if Medical Filters used in embergency rooms are based off of gas masks. Lightweight wheelchairs came about from needing a lighter wheel chair to get the first astronauts off the space ships (when they could barely walk). How many alloys came about from the need of stronger armor and braces? Think about how useful radar is to us today. The microwave was invented/discovered by a military radar technician who realized his choclate bar melted when he walked past the radar array. Oh the list goes on and on on both sides of the equation.
While some of this may have been discovered sooner or later during peacefull reasearch, it wouldn't have been discovered as soon.
As for your stance on encouraging "breeders"
Since the grand parent is an AC I can't really ask him this and get an answere. How does the Gov encourage "breeders" and mariage? I can understand the "breeder" part somewhat with the child credit. However, there is still the mariage penalty when two people get married. Any ideas?
It was obvious that Bush would appoint at least one new Supreme Court justice, and that he would almost certainly chose an anti-Roe nominee, whereas Kerry would almost certainly chose a pro-Roe nominee.
/ roe.profile/
So that would mean that the judges would be against abortion?
Norma McCorvey aka Roe is a pro-life activist now.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/roe.wade/stories
Fact is, we have WAAAAAY too many people in jail as it is. If we were to only charge and incarcerate those who pose a safety risk to the rest of society then you could probably monitor the entire population in half as many facilities with 1/3 of the correctional officers we have today.
Unfortunately, some people who are not dangerous are not detered by anything short of prison. Even after some prison time, some will still repeat the offense. Look up Maricopa County's Tent City Jail.
The basic reason for DST is that some of us don't like having the sun up at 4 AM and still trying to get sleep. By shifting the clocks to 5am, that gives an extra hour of sunlight in the evening and 1 less of having as many lights on.
As for Indiana going to DST, my understanding is that since it had a time zone running right down the middle of it, it didn't make sense for it to switch.
Kinney believes that the industry would be better able to defend itself with an independent system, rather one that was set up by the industry itself.
So when do Movies get their own independant system like this? If we "need" one for games and TV already has (a detailed) one, when do the movies get their own version of this? Although, does anyone know if the TV reviews are actually independant or by the producers/networks?
It ironic then that the best developed countries in Africa today are those where European colonisation was strongest, compare e.g. Kenya (British colony - exports ~ $2.5 billion) and Uganda (British Protectorate - exports ~ $600 million).
As I understand it, the British, went to the trouble of preparing the colonies, teaching them how to set up a decent government and generally preparing beforehand for the transition. The French basically said to their colonies, "you're on your own now". Pretty much all the countries we here about (the ones that have problems) are ex-French colonies.
I'm still wondering if this is being used as a legalistic loophole or an honest concern about false arrest. I mean, there is a blood test that has been shown to be just as good or better than a breathalizer.
A blood test would require either a court order/warrant or permision by the person the blood is to be taken from. Seeing as how this is for drunk drivers, people usually want the results back fairly quickly. Blood tests usually take a while unless you want troopers carrying around a whole lot of needles and test equipment. Even then there are people, like me, who would not be able to physically drive for at least 20 minutes after having blood drawn. Then there are a few other things they could test blood for that people would object to. Some meds can give false positives for illegal drugs.
Currently the only way they can check for blood alcohol levels is throug breath analyzers. Blood is out.
One of the UN's main goals is to promote "income redistribution". Which basically means, since there are rich countries, and poor countries, they want to make us all poor :)
Equality at the lowest common denominator. Sounds applicable to a few other areas as well.
the power to levy taxes on domain names to pay for "universal access,"
As taken straight from the article.
That would be this story. That was about putting what is essentially a full LCD monitor into magazines and newspapers. This is about a non-volatile version that will still display the picture/text after the electricity is cut off.
requires your signature and someone elses signature declaring that the person in question filled out the ballot.
I was wondering if the ground line was a major reason for this. He does not live in Tokyo, but he does live in a nearby suburb of it.
e ction=distribution&id=2615 s /HighSpeedInternetForHome.asp
Currently the large majority of the US phone network is copper. Due to the "time sharing" that was invented about 100 years ago the max speed possible is 56k over a normal phone line. Even that requires some interesting math discoveries.
DSL bypases the time sharing and gives a straight hard line directly to the central office. The reason for the distance limits on DSL is due to distortion over long copper lines. The longer the line, the more distorted the original signal gets. This is why they farther you are from the central office, the slower the speeds you get. How Stuff Works has some info on this.
In order to get faster, the phone companies are installing fibre. I remember reading somewhere that that is what Japan has essentially done. It is still called DSL since it is from the phone company and is stil a digital line. Verizon, my local phone company, is currently working on installing fibre to the home. Already, we qualify for DSL, where a few years ago we did not. (Currently we have cable by Cox.) Hmm... Their 3mb DSL service is a bit cheaper than the 5mb Cox service. They have a DSL 768k/128k for $15/month. That is much better than our old 56k dial up that cost $20/month. So it is improving. We don't yet qualify for their fibre service, it hasn't been put out to this area yet. However, the fibre service they are offering 15mbps for $45. They are also offering HDTV over those connections. By the way, I live in a relatively unpopulated area. Fairfax County, VA. 1 Million people, 395 square miles. We have under 1000 people per kilometer^2 compared to Tokyos 13400.
As I understand it, the largest delay was due to the telcos wanting to make sure they didn't have to open up their brand new fibre networks to rivals. Probably since they wouldn't be able to pay off the investment of fibre at whole sale prices.
http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?s
http://www22.verizon.com/FiosForHome/channels/Fio
All the states listed are pretty socialist, compared to the US anyway. I wonder if France and Canada and so-forth have subsidised internet from the government.
- bbcankorjapfeb05v2.pdf
Heavily.
http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/centers/purc/documents/WU
South Koreas subsidies are measured in the billions. In the US it is measured in the millions.
He says he pays $50 a month for a DSL line that gets 34 megabits down and 5 megabits up.
First, I'm guessing that his DSL line is fibre optic cable. Many telcos are currently in the process of replacing all the copper with fibre. It takes time to replace that many miles of copper. Second, he wouldn't happen to live in the city now, would he?
In the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Congress directed the FCC to oversee the timely deployment of Internet services that "enable users to originate and receive high quality voice, data, graphics, and video telecommunications." Currently, this requirement translates into an Internet connection with typical download and upload speeds between 10 Mbps and 20 Mbps (megabits, or million bits, per second)
Can someone tell me where they get that 10-20Mbps number from? I can get pretty good video over a 4Mbps connection.
Actually if people used PVR systems they would get used to the "downloading" or recording of shows and then watching them when they want where they want. Using a PVR (mythtv, tivo, freevo) system changes the way people watch TV. About the only type of shows that anyone would want to watch "real time" would be sporting events or space launches. Most everything else does not suffer anything by being watched at a later time.
You can add some types of news into that list of yours. If there is a tornado, blizzard, flash flood warning or a few other things headed my way I want to know NOW. TV via the Emergency Broadcasting Service and Emergency Interuptions helps people find out what they need to know quickly. Additionaly, the Amber Alert notifications use this kind of system as well. Those kinds of emergencies work well for TV and Radio broadcasts. Not so well with websites. Especially when during a "Severe winter storm" most likely my internet connection has gone out due to power loss. A radio will work, mainly due to batteries and that broadcasters keep large generators on hand. I can't see that working in the model Daniel Fisher proposes.
As a VW buff, I have to wonder why the hell people can't spell "Volkswagen" correctly. It's not THAT HARD.
In a nutshell, because it's a German word. Most of us that speak english when we hear "wagen" think "wagon" in our heads as they sound close enough to be identical.
Gah, and I even took German for 4 years.
Letting people blast away at 200mw is bad enough, imagine the mess that'll ensue if you do that with higher power transmitters.
High Power Transmitters. adj.
1) Enough RF to cook your eyeballs while they are still inside your head.
2) Enough RF to make you smell like a cooked thanksgiving turkey.
Synonyms: Multi-Megawatt Transmitters. Gigawatt Transmitters.
That raises the question of why Rupert Murdoch, say, needs exclusive access to a slice of the radio spectrum for his Fox television network when he could just as easily put his content out over the Internet for customers to pick up using low-powered wi-fi receivers hooked into the Web.
So his argument is that because stations can send out information over the internet, TV is obsolete? There's at least one problem here. Aside from the necessary internet bandwidth required, not everyone has a computer/good enough computer/internet connection/broadband internet connection. Additionaly, the bandwidth necessary to send out a TV program at equivalent quality to what is on TV has barely made it to most homes. Even my 5mbit cable modem would be too low a bitrate for some programs. Not to mention the new HDTV is going to be 20 mbits. People want to watch in real time, not download and then watch.
Then there are the non-TV usages for satelites, which hapens to be covered under the FCC as well. Last I checked we still had some places in the US that are on party lines, and some don't even have phone service yet, and he expects them to have internet?.
As for "inteligent radios" and such, I'd like to see them work in an area where someone is blasting out there own multi megawatt signal.
Gah, there are so many things that the FCC currently does I can't even list them all.
I suspect that this discussion will be referenced on whatever media outlet he ends up on (likely Fox News, if you want to call what they do journalism) to prove that we "nerds" are a bunch of psychos who are addicted to violent video games and our threats to "run down Jack Thompson with an 18-wheeler" as the AC who posted that comment said will be used as proof of that.
How do you know it wasn't Jack Thompson or one of the people who work for him that posted that comment as an AC here on slashdot?
Was trying to remember where I saw that before. Thought it was a VG Cats comic, not CAD.