By aggregating digital media companies together within a single complex that meets the needs of the employees regarding all their living requirements, they are trying to enable the "campus" atmosphere of companies like Microsoft... combined with the "company towns" that were found in the US during the industrial revolution.
They're providing an infrastructure.
And yes, you can colocate a box in a data center on 100Mbps links, but how many startups have a pair of DS3s at their offices?
General Motors might not sell cars like Chevrolet and Pontiac in other countries, but they are there. GM owns Saab, Opel, and Vauxhall in Europe, is the majority shareholder in Daewoo in Korea, and is involved in the manufacture of lots of other foreign brands.
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See this for more info.
Dan Diaz Zapata, a spokesman for Verizon, said the building had many levels of security - from video cameras to security badges to on-site guards - and that the company was cooperating with local and federal authorities.
If 25 tons can power the US for a year... really... it's not that difficult to move 25 tons of anything from the moon to the earth for the billions we spend on electricity a year.
The DoE says we produce about 3900 billion kilowatt hours. Electrical costs vary from place to place, but let's use the national average of about 8 cents per kilowatt hour... 312 billion dollars. Transportation costs from the moon for 25 tons don't look so huge now, do they?:)
At about 5 megabytes a second, dumping 4GB of data off it will take about 13 minutes... so dumping to laptop won't exactly be ideal if you need to keep going... you're going to have to buy a spare Microdrive if you don't want to be stuck idle while offloading data.
Well, it would be nifty if instead of gas stations simply distributing fuel, if they could reprocess it... do some kind of fuel tank exchange program, like they do with propane tank exchanges for barbecue grills, but instead of refilling the exchanged tanks with propane, rehydrating sodium borate from another energy source, be it electricity from the grid, solar panels, or some clean burning fuel... perhaps ethanol?
The BSD license movement isn't small, it's just not as socialist as the GPL... I think we would still have a movement without GNU, just not with the misguided idealism of millions of teenagers...
If we can produce sodium borate from other energy sources... I don't think the problem we have currently is one of limited energy production, but one of energy transmission... if we could beam microwaves from satellites to convert solar energy to something more portable... wouldn't we be set?
The first episode of the show included an interview with Richard Stallman, the man responsible for GNU/Linux
Richard Stallman is the man responsible for GNU/Linux? Linux uses a lot of GNU programs in userland, but to call him "the man" responsible for GNU/Linux?
He's responsible for Emacs and the movement, but not GNU/Linux as a whole by any stretch...
I guess my perspective is a little out of whack due to the general cost of living here, though. I'm in Northern NJ. When you compare the $45 to $1500/mo for my last 2BR apt, it becomes far less significant than it would be for people renting a place in Des Moines, I guess.
But the high speed really does change the utility of the service dramatically for me. Unless it's an ISO hosted on a slow server, I don't have to decide whether or not to download something. Someone sends a link to a video, I check it out. Radio reception sucks in the basement, but I just stream the stations instead.
I can't count the number of links I haven't passed along to modem-using people because I don't want to hear grief about how shit-slow their connection is...
It's important in these cases to have the dissenting view of people who are upset by the ISP playing big brother.
People take the absolutist view that it shouldn't be "censored" because when things like this happen and nobody says anything, at some point it may be a site with political views contrary to the management of the company... or Planned Parenthood sites redirected to the Operation Rescue site.
The press and the people need to take notice and assure "faceless" corporations that we notice, and we care.
I don't know the Australian legal system works, but I do recall cases where ISPs have used a "common carrier" defense (similar to telcos) to claim that they do not control what illegal uses their subscribers use the services for.
Does this make BigPond an "editor" for their users, thus nullifying the notion of their operation as a common carrier?
Will developing things like solid rocket booster technology be somewhat applicable to development of long-range missiles?
I know that some of the hubbub surrounding Loral's technology used in Chinese satellite launches was because of the supposition that it would enhance PRC's ability to lob nukes over longer distances.
Of course, since Pakistan is so close, I don't know how much of an impetus there is towards long-range missiles in India.
Are there any service providers currently offering the ability to seamlessly switch from cell towers to VoIP where your current call will move uninterrupted? And if so, what do they charge for VoIP minutes (if anything) over the basic cellular plan?
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Perl is for those who like to choose their own syntax. :)
Why have one or two ways to do things, when you can have eleven?
By aggregating digital media companies together within a single complex that meets the needs of the employees regarding all their living requirements, they are trying to enable the "campus" atmosphere of companies like Microsoft... combined with the "company towns" that were found in the US during the industrial revolution.
They're providing an infrastructure.
And yes, you can colocate a box in a data center on 100Mbps links, but how many startups have a pair of DS3s at their offices?
General Motors might not sell cars like Chevrolet and Pontiac in other countries, but they are there. GM owns Saab, Opel, and Vauxhall in Europe, is the majority shareholder in Daewoo in Korea, and is involved in the manufacture of lots of other foreign brands.
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Dan Diaz Zapata, a spokesman for Verizon, said the building had many levels of security - from video cameras to security badges to on-site guards - and that the company was cooperating with local and federal authorities.
Those guards.
The entire SS7 switching infrastructure would have to be updated to support directly addressing individual boards. Not likely to happen.
I'm still curious as to how they got past the guards, unless they had ID showing them to be from one of the telecoms colocating equipment there.
I find it hard to believe that it couldn't be done with $10B.
If 25 tons can power the US for a year... really... it's not that difficult to move 25 tons of anything from the moon to the earth for the billions we spend on electricity a year.
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The DoE says we produce about 3900 billion kilowatt hours. Electrical costs vary from place to place, but let's use the national average of about 8 cents per kilowatt hour... 312 billion dollars. Transportation costs from the moon for 25 tons don't look so huge now, do they?
To transport the helium, just put it all in a balloon and drop it toward earth...
Wait a second...
At about 5 megabytes a second, dumping 4GB of data off it will take about 13 minutes... so dumping to laptop won't exactly be ideal if you need to keep going... you're going to have to buy a spare Microdrive if you don't want to be stuck idle while offloading data.
Well, don't forget all the revenue generated by a beowulf cluster of reloaders sucking up bandwidth!
Well, it would be nifty if instead of gas stations simply distributing fuel, if they could reprocess it... do some kind of fuel tank exchange program, like they do with propane tank exchanges for barbecue grills, but instead of refilling the exchanged tanks with propane, rehydrating sodium borate from another energy source, be it electricity from the grid, solar panels, or some clean burning fuel... perhaps ethanol?
The BSD license movement isn't small, it's just not as socialist as the GPL... I think we would still have a movement without GNU, just not with the misguided idealism of millions of teenagers...
If we can produce sodium borate from other energy sources... I don't think the problem we have currently is one of limited energy production, but one of energy transmission... if we could beam microwaves from satellites to convert solar energy to something more portable... wouldn't we be set?
I'm not saying that RMS wasn't worthy of an interview... just that stating the facts incorrectly is bad.
The first episode of the show included an interview with Richard Stallman, the man responsible for GNU/Linux
Richard Stallman is the man responsible for GNU/Linux? Linux uses a lot of GNU programs in userland, but to call him "the man" responsible for GNU/Linux?
He's responsible for Emacs and the movement, but not GNU/Linux as a whole by any stretch...
I do more coke so I can work more hours so I can make more money so I can do more coke.
My service is $44.95/mo.
I guess my perspective is a little out of whack due to the general cost of living here, though. I'm in Northern NJ. When you compare the $45 to $1500/mo for my last 2BR apt, it becomes far less significant than it would be for people renting a place in Des Moines, I guess.
But the high speed really does change the utility of the service dramatically for me. Unless it's an ISO hosted on a slow server, I don't have to decide whether or not to download something. Someone sends a link to a video, I check it out. Radio reception sucks in the basement, but I just stream the stations instead.
I can't count the number of links I haven't passed along to modem-using people because I don't want to hear grief about how shit-slow their connection is...
My Cablevision/OptimumOnline cable modem does about 8M/1M, whereas plenty of people have DSL that's 512k/96k.
It's a little sad to see it all get lumped together.
It's important in these cases to have the dissenting view of people who are upset by the ISP playing big brother.
People take the absolutist view that it shouldn't be "censored" because when things like this happen and nobody says anything, at some point it may be a site with political views contrary to the management of the company... or Planned Parenthood sites redirected to the Operation Rescue site.
The press and the people need to take notice and assure "faceless" corporations that we notice, and we care.
I don't know the Australian legal system works, but I do recall cases where ISPs have used a "common carrier" defense (similar to telcos) to claim that they do not control what illegal uses their subscribers use the services for.
Does this make BigPond an "editor" for their users, thus nullifying the notion of their operation as a common carrier?
C *doesn't* work behind the scenes. Compilers work behind the scenes and then give you executable machine code. The only "scene" would be your OS.
Javascript is an interpreted language. It runs within a Javascript interpreter. There's a "scene" in which it runs.
eigenpolls [all-technology.com] a way to gather knowledge from a crowed.
From a crowed what?
Will developing things like solid rocket booster technology be somewhat applicable to development of long-range missiles?
I know that some of the hubbub surrounding Loral's technology used in Chinese satellite launches was because of the supposition that it would enhance PRC's ability to lob nukes over longer distances.
Of course, since Pakistan is so close, I don't know how much of an impetus there is towards long-range missiles in India.
Are there any service providers currently offering the ability to seamlessly switch from cell towers to VoIP where your current call will move uninterrupted? And if so, what do they charge for VoIP minutes (if anything) over the basic cellular plan?
Too bad there isn't something as devilishly clever as unbirth...