Consider LA to San Francisco. 6+ hours by car. too short a distance for a plane to be effective (given check in and insecurity checks and such), but it's ideal for a high speed rail line.
They pay by the Mbps, not by the MB. It doesn't matter if the links are sitting idle or they're being maxed out, they pay the same. For example, Cogengo charges $4/Mbps/month (if you buy by the gigabit).
IIRC, my bank (RBC) allows up to 7 digits, though they recommend not using more than 4 due to lingering old stupid systems that won't handle more than 4 digits.
When dealing with that kind of distance, things to not need to move much. From geostationary orbit (~35,786KM), a 1/100th of a degree shift will result in the beam moving over 6KM on earth.
Access has a soft cap during peak hours (3pm til 1am IIRC), but are unlimited during offpeak. If you exceed their soft cap, they'll throttle you during peak hours, but not during offpeak.
Shaw has a hard cap varying depending on which bandwidth package you have (from 10GB to 150GB), but I have no idea what, if anything, they do when you go over that, as I've never used them.
More accurately, blessed by the governments. Most of this nonsense is entrenched at the municipal level and somewhat at the state level. The feds have little to do with it.
Wireless based on cellular networks tends to have lousy pings, but wimax and wimax-like fixed wireless systems seem to be pretty comparable to DSL and cable. I'm personally on a fixed wireless system (Sasktel's WBBI, which is a DOCSIS hack) and my pings to common sites (google, etc.) hang in the 50-100ms range.
IIRC, the low power factor increases the loss on the lines, as the VA amount needs to be pulled, even though only the Watt amount is used. so you're actually using Watts+(VA*loss rate).
When considering AC power, capacitors and inductors have a property called reactance, otherwise known as imaginary resistance. this is dependant on the size of the inductor/capacitor and the frequency of the AC current.
This relates to normal DC resistance in a manner like the pythagorean theorem (a^2+b^2=c^2), where a is the DC resistance, b is the inductive or capacitive reactance (they cancel each other out. if you have 1 ohm of capacitive reactance and 1 ohm of inductive reactance, they sum out to 0), and c is the complex impedance. it works the same way as complex numbers.
Watts is the DC resistance multipled by the voltage, known as "real power"
VAr (Volt-amps reactive) is the impedance multiplied by the voltage, known as reactive or "imaginary" power.
VA is the complex impedance multiplied by the voltage, which is the apparent power, which is the actual power that needs to come from the power source.
For a DC circuit or an AC circuit with negligible reactance (either non-existent or cancelled out as above), VA=Watts and the power factor (the ratio of Watts/VA) is 1.
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Their Asia and Latin America transmitter is 500KW and transmits in the upper AM band (1530khz).
Did you know that Buffalo wings essentially mean wings of chicken?
I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Buffalo is the sauce they put on them.
Consider LA to San Francisco. 6+ hours by car. too short a distance for a plane to be effective (given check in and insecurity checks and such), but it's ideal for a high speed rail line.
Do they have a dam nearby they can use as a power reservoir?
Nope. Florida is quite flat and low. The highest point (Britton Hill) is only 105M above sea level.
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They pay by the Mbps, not by the MB. It doesn't matter if the links are sitting idle or they're being maxed out, they pay the same. For example, Cogengo charges $4/Mbps/month (if you buy by the gigabit).
I somehow read it as SSC.
You had me until "So we reward the ten percent below 1GB with 1/3 their normal cost".
This guy beat you to it years ago.
IIRC, my bank (RBC) allows up to 7 digits, though they recommend not using more than 4 due to lingering old stupid systems that won't handle more than 4 digits.
When dealing with that kind of distance, things to not need to move much. From geostationary orbit (~35,786KM), a 1/100th of a degree shift will result in the beam moving over 6KM on earth.
TV towers are a few hundred Kilowatts. This is 200 Megawatts. A few orders of magnitude can make a sizable difference.
Access has a soft cap during peak hours (3pm til 1am IIRC), but are unlimited during offpeak. If you exceed their soft cap, they'll throttle you during peak hours, but not during offpeak.
Shaw has a hard cap varying depending on which bandwidth package you have (from 10GB to 150GB), but I have no idea what, if anything, they do when you go over that, as I've never used them.
10MB/1MB here (Saskatchewan, Canada) costs $55/month, which is about 34 Euros, and has no limits that I have been able to discover.
More accurately, blessed by the governments. Most of this nonsense is entrenched at the municipal level and somewhat at the state level. The feds have little to do with it.
Depends on what kind of wireless you mean.
Wireless based on cellular networks tends to have lousy pings, but wimax and wimax-like fixed wireless systems seem to be pretty comparable to DSL and cable. I'm personally on a fixed wireless system (Sasktel's WBBI, which is a DOCSIS hack) and my pings to common sites (google, etc.) hang in the 50-100ms range.
The story is that they're asking for input. I would imagine some of the people here might have some ideas on this matter.
The Story is that the FCC plans to come up with a plan to improve broadband access and is asking the public for their input.
I think his point was the use their services even more to the extent that 2 becomes false, breaking the rest of the chain.
They're just send takedown notices anyway.
IIRC, the low power factor increases the loss on the lines, as the VA amount needs to be pulled, even though only the Watt amount is used. so you're actually using Watts+(VA*loss rate).
No idea what the loss rate averages to though.
Bush had 8 years to build up an anti-following. Obama has only had a few months. Give it some time.
this is the best wikipedia has on this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_power#Real.2C_reactive.2C_and_apparent_power
When considering AC power, capacitors and inductors have a property called reactance, otherwise known as imaginary resistance. this is dependant on the size of the inductor/capacitor and the frequency of the AC current.
This relates to normal DC resistance in a manner like the pythagorean theorem (a^2+b^2=c^2), where a is the DC resistance, b is the inductive or capacitive reactance (they cancel each other out. if you have 1 ohm of capacitive reactance and 1 ohm of inductive reactance, they sum out to 0), and c is the complex impedance. it works the same way as complex numbers.
Watts is the DC resistance multipled by the voltage, known as "real power"
VAr (Volt-amps reactive) is the impedance multiplied by the voltage, known as reactive or "imaginary" power.
VA is the complex impedance multiplied by the voltage, which is the apparent power, which is the actual power that needs to come from the power source.
For a DC circuit or an AC circuit with negligible reactance (either non-existent or cancelled out as above), VA=Watts and the power factor (the ratio of Watts/VA) is 1.
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I would beg to differ. If you chill them, LEDs get brighter. It's especially noticeable below about -20C.
Even with the power factor problem, they still smash incandescents by a mile. Cutting the power used by more than half is still pretty damn good.
That would be this guy http://slashdot.org/~Hoi+Polloi