You do know that HughesNet is a satellite ISP, right? There is no viable business case for unlimited satellite internet at anything more than 9600bps or so. You are sharing a much-less-than-gigabit connection between tens of thousands of users to get the average price down enough to make it affordable. A typical user who transfers 100GB a month will ruin it for everyone.
I have seen quite a few impressive graphs where business DSL lines were filled to capacity for hours after the Windows 10 release. This is great news for most ISPs -- sure it means an extra cost of bandwidth short term, but it is going to put switching to fiber (or draconian QoS, more $$$) into the minds of many managers.
Satellite ISPs are going to lose out. They make a bit of money short term because of the bandwidth charges, but they will shed customers because most customers hate unexpected bills.
The Fedora build of Firefox is certainly built from source. It is still called Firefox.
Fedora is discussing whether it is feasible to continue with Firefox-branded Firefox due to the new signed-addon policy. But for now, you can certainly get your open source Firefox fix that way.
There is _no_ fusion technology ever tested, nor realistically proposed that does not rely on tritium.
Polywell and others propose hydrogen-boron. As for realistic, the challenges are certainly different than for deuterium-tritium. Whether they are harder is difficult to say for sure until one of the technologies start actually producing electricity.
When setting up an access point, it should be possible to designate it as "expensive", and by default devices should adhere to this and try to limit unnecessary data usage. I get annoyed when I use my phone as a hot spot and discover that my computer has fetched upgrades, my other phone has downloaded a bunch of podcasts, and so on. It would also allow me to keep a backup wireless SSID running permanently, knowing that the devices will go for the cheap SSID first.
I bet that quite a bit of bandwidth usage on planes is due to phones thinking they are switching from expensive (but actually dirt cheap) 3G/4G to cheap (but actually really expensive) wifi.
The problem is that we have valuable die real-estate being taken up by this shit when additional L1/L2 cache, a core, or other SIMD instruction sets would be better.
L1/L2 caches have hit the maximum sizes you can build before the added latency of larger caches makes the trade-off fail. You can do L3, but the performance benefit is not very impressive for desktop workloads and if you are Intel you do not want your desktop chips eating your server market. Extra cores, same deal: great for server tasks, not for the desktop. SIMD just does not take up significant die space, and the gains are minuscule except for specialized workloads.
Intel is pretty desperate to find something to use transistors for.
Your house is exposed to a relatively benign security environment where you can expect criminals who try to break in to have a reasonable risk of getting caught and punished. The perpetrators are likely to be within reach of law enforcement, and the average house sees way less than one attempt per year.
Contrast this with the Internet, where security gets probed at least hourly and the criminals are likely to be in Russia, out of reach in the vast majority of cases.
At this point security breaches should be treated like we treat natural disasters: Building codes and risk of prison for those who endanger others by not following best practices.
Roundabouts are bad for cyclists. It is very difficult to devise a sensible solution. So far the best option is to put a bicycle lane around the outside, at good distance from the actual roundabout, forcing the cyclists to stop for the cars when they cross each road. This is reasonably safe but ssssllllloooowwww for the cyclists.
It's right there in the summary. It lists the GSM bands and the UMTS bands. At least it does HSPA+ both up and down, but that is little comfort if you are in a 4G area with lousy 3G coverage...
Transmission costs are a fraction of production costs. This is unlikely to change.
Storage is a legitimate concern, but "luckily" large parts of the US are heavily dependent on air conditioning. Some areas need air conditioning at night as well, but I am sure people will start getting creative once daytime energy costs trend towards zero.
Or perhaps realize that things are not so simple. Adding a plough to the front of a train has exactly the same problem as adding a plough to the front of a car: If the wheel friction is insufficient, the train is not going to move anywhere. Real snow requires dedicated snow ploughs, both on rails and on roads.
Heated switches are great, but when the train passes and large lumps of ice are shaken from the train into the switch, even 10kW heaters give up. Then the switch is stuck until someone gets to it and removes the ice.
Tracks are cheaper than a dedicated new road for buses (factor in maintenance, plowing, etc).
That would surprise me greatly. Do you have any numbers?
Maintenance and plowing would seem to favour road even more. Roads are relatively easy to plow. Rail switches tend to get stuck, particularly if the temperature hovers near freezing.
Buses almost by definition can't be faster than driving.
Buses with dedicated lanes can be faster than driving if there is congestion. Bus lanes are a lot cheaper than train track, and buses are cheaper than trains as well.
The austerity is there to ensure that the Greeks WILL need €100 billion in a couple of years time. They are unable to deal with the interest on their existing loans, and since they are not allowed to go bankrupt, they have no way out. The agreement dooms Greece to have an ever-shrinking economy and therefore they will have even less ability to service their debt in the future.
If the country tries starving to death, debt rises as a percent of GDP. In order to have any chance at all at paying back the debt, the Greeks need to work, not be unemployed. How else will they produce the goods and services to sell abroad, so they can get the money to pay off the debt?
Unemployment is still steadily rising in Greece. Each worker out of a job means one less worker to help pay the debt.
Exactly! The sane solution: Write off the Greek debt and don't loan them more money. The solution that Greece wants and needs. And the solution that no one will let them have.
Why does it matter where the money is? The actual money itself went back out of the country to pay for imports and to be hidden by the rich tax-avoiders. The goods and services that it paid for have been used.
They are not demanding more money. That is the what the confusion is all about. Greece just wants to go properly bankrupt, i.e. not pay back the money they owe. They will even settle for extending all the loans at a low interest rate, so the economy gets a chance to grow.
New money is only needed because the EU will not accept the losses that already happened. This denial of reality means that anyone with any sense can see that Greek will eventually give up on the Euro, and therefore everyone sane does what they can to get their hands on actual Euro notes rather than numbers on a bank statement. Obviously the banks cannot handle this demand; no country could print paper money fast enough in that situation.
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You do know that HughesNet is a satellite ISP, right? There is no viable business case for unlimited satellite internet at anything more than 9600bps or so. You are sharing a much-less-than-gigabit connection between tens of thousands of users to get the average price down enough to make it affordable. A typical user who transfers 100GB a month will ruin it for everyone.
I have seen quite a few impressive graphs where business DSL lines were filled to capacity for hours after the Windows 10 release. This is great news for most ISPs -- sure it means an extra cost of bandwidth short term, but it is going to put switching to fiber (or draconian QoS, more $$$) into the minds of many managers.
Satellite ISPs are going to lose out. They make a bit of money short term because of the bandwidth charges, but they will shed customers because most customers hate unexpected bills.
They may have correctly triaged the undisclosed bugs in terms of importance until disclosure forced less important bugs to a higher urgency.
They made the assumption that undisclosed bugs are unknown to blackhats. As the breach shows, that is a pretty bad assumption.
Basing importance on the disclosure status is a horrible policy, and the only effective antidote is immediate full disclosure without grace period.
The Fedora build of Firefox is certainly built from source. It is still called Firefox.
Fedora is discussing whether it is feasible to continue with Firefox-branded Firefox due to the new signed-addon policy. But for now, you can certainly get your open source Firefox fix that way.
There is _no_ fusion technology ever tested, nor realistically proposed that does not rely on tritium.
Polywell and others propose hydrogen-boron. As for realistic, the challenges are certainly different than for deuterium-tritium. Whether they are harder is difficult to say for sure until one of the technologies start actually producing electricity.
Yes, but it is the wrong way around. The access point should be able the specify it. Manual configuration on the device does not scale.
Sorry for not making this clear.
When setting up an access point, it should be possible to designate it as "expensive", and by default devices should adhere to this and try to limit unnecessary data usage. I get annoyed when I use my phone as a hot spot and discover that my computer has fetched upgrades, my other phone has downloaded a bunch of podcasts, and so on. It would also allow me to keep a backup wireless SSID running permanently, knowing that the devices will go for the cheap SSID first.
I bet that quite a bit of bandwidth usage on planes is due to phones thinking they are switching from expensive (but actually dirt cheap) 3G/4G to cheap (but actually really expensive) wifi.
The problem is that we have valuable die real-estate being taken up by this shit when additional L1/L2 cache, a core, or other SIMD instruction sets would be better.
L1/L2 caches have hit the maximum sizes you can build before the added latency of larger caches makes the trade-off fail. You can do L3, but the performance benefit is not very impressive for desktop workloads and if you are Intel you do not want your desktop chips eating your server market. Extra cores, same deal: great for server tasks, not for the desktop. SIMD just does not take up significant die space, and the gains are minuscule except for specialized workloads.
Intel is pretty desperate to find something to use transistors for.
Your house is exposed to a relatively benign security environment where you can expect criminals who try to break in to have a reasonable risk of getting caught and punished. The perpetrators are likely to be within reach of law enforcement, and the average house sees way less than one attempt per year.
Contrast this with the Internet, where security gets probed at least hourly and the criminals are likely to be in Russia, out of reach in the vast majority of cases.
At this point security breaches should be treated like we treat natural disasters: Building codes and risk of prison for those who endanger others by not following best practices.
This is far from true. Even in the case of PCIe SSD (still a rarity), RAM is an order of magnitude faster, and much more for truly random access.
Roundabouts are bad for cyclists. It is very difficult to devise a sensible solution. So far the best option is to put a bicycle lane around the outside, at good distance from the actual roundabout, forcing the cyclists to stop for the cars when they cross each road. This is reasonably safe but ssssllllloooowwww for the cyclists.
The story is about the introduction of the phone's availability outside Europe. Insert joke about ignorant Americans here.
It's right there in the summary. It lists the GSM bands and the UMTS bands. At least it does HSPA+ both up and down, but that is little comfort if you are in a 4G area with lousy 3G coverage...
See also http://www.bq.com/gb/aquaris-e... if you do not trust the summary...
Only 2G and 3G.
Did you think SLC (single level cells) had 1 levels per cell, thereby storing 0 bits?
I own one of those. It reads zero in all locations.
Which is great if Microsoft wants to manufacture phones. However, it seems unlikely that they can make $7.6B from being an Android patent troll.
Transmission costs are a fraction of production costs. This is unlikely to change.
Storage is a legitimate concern, but "luckily" large parts of the US are heavily dependent on air conditioning. Some areas need air conditioning at night as well, but I am sure people will start getting creative once daytime energy costs trend towards zero.
Bind has been rewritten practically from scratch multiple times. This has strangely not helped security as much as one would hope...
To be fair, at least they are mostly DoS bugs, not root-in-one-packet like in the good old days. At least we hope they are.
Tell all that to the Danish rails please.
Or perhaps realize that things are not so simple. Adding a plough to the front of a train has exactly the same problem as adding a plough to the front of a car: If the wheel friction is insufficient, the train is not going to move anywhere. Real snow requires dedicated snow ploughs, both on rails and on roads.
Heated switches are great, but when the train passes and large lumps of ice are shaken from the train into the switch, even 10kW heaters give up. Then the switch is stuck until someone gets to it and removes the ice.
Tracks are cheaper than a dedicated new road for buses (factor in maintenance, plowing, etc).
That would surprise me greatly. Do you have any numbers?
Maintenance and plowing would seem to favour road even more. Roads are relatively easy to plow. Rail switches tend to get stuck, particularly if the temperature hovers near freezing.
Buses almost by definition can't be faster than driving.
Buses with dedicated lanes can be faster than driving if there is congestion. Bus lanes are a lot cheaper than train track, and buses are cheaper than trains as well.
I still hate buses.
The austerity is there to ensure that the Greeks WILL need €100 billion in a couple of years time. They are unable to deal with the interest on their existing loans, and since they are not allowed to go bankrupt, they have no way out. The agreement dooms Greece to have an ever-shrinking economy and therefore they will have even less ability to service their debt in the future.
If the country tries starving to death, debt rises as a percent of GDP. In order to have any chance at all at paying back the debt, the Greeks need to work, not be unemployed. How else will they produce the goods and services to sell abroad, so they can get the money to pay off the debt?
Unemployment is still steadily rising in Greece. Each worker out of a job means one less worker to help pay the debt.
Exactly! The sane solution: Write off the Greek debt and don't loan them more money. The solution that Greece wants and needs. And the solution that no one will let them have.
Why does it matter where the money is? The actual money itself went back out of the country to pay for imports and to be hidden by the rich tax-avoiders. The goods and services that it paid for have been used.
They are not demanding more money. That is the what the confusion is all about. Greece just wants to go properly bankrupt, i.e. not pay back the money they owe. They will even settle for extending all the loans at a low interest rate, so the economy gets a chance to grow.
New money is only needed because the EU will not accept the losses that already happened. This denial of reality means that anyone with any sense can see that Greek will eventually give up on the Euro, and therefore everyone sane does what they can to get their hands on actual Euro notes rather than numbers on a bank statement. Obviously the banks cannot handle this demand; no country could print paper money fast enough in that situation.