1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
but I can't help this nagging feeling that it's down to lazy coding. I agree. One item to consider is whether word processing has changed so much in the last 10 years that we now need over 5 times the processor speed, 16 times as much memory, and 10 times as much drive space.
then how about we stop with this "X addiction" and make a useful general designation like "addictive personality disorder"? AFAICT, the general treatment for an addiction doesn't really depend on what the addiction is.
As far as the immunity goes, it doesn't matter if bush vetoes it. In the absence of legislation granting immunity, there's nothing in the way of the suits.
I would have a hunch, that the "Church" itself is causing the problems on the page. that's been happening for some time. that article may be the most contriversal article short of muhammad.
1. still, the general critical thinking skills cultivated in that line of work and decent knowledge of this area are something i like to see in a representative.
Legion is real until they get bored and no longer derive "lulz" from whatever passing fad floated their boat at the time. Chanology is already fading to a whimper on the Internet as attacking Scientology becomes passe. Soon some other thing will take hold and become the new lulz-provider. Sure, but I suspect their short and concentrated effort can have quite an effect on things before they get bored and move on.
Somehow the commercial Internet didn't see it that way. They much prefer minimal hardware with tree-structured, heirarchical connectivity, and chokepoints everywhere, without alternate routes to handle failure. simple. fast, cheap, reliable. choose 2. guess which ones most consumers will choose, and thus which 2 most any commercial enterprise looking to sell to those consumers will choose.
it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough.
basic ideal i see is that the government owns the infrastructure (physical plant, fibre in the ground, etc.), and is responsible for its upkeep, but they are not permitted to use the infrastructure to deliver their own services. they're completely out of the market themselves, rendering them impartial. they are only able to lease it out at some constant fee (no volume discounts or whatever) to anyone who wants to use it to deliver services.
as far as i see, that makes for a completely level playing field. mom&pop isp would have the same per capita infrastructure costs as RandomMegaCorp.
Has Microsoft used patents offensively? in what regard?
with the FOSS patents thing, hell no. they're rattling a blunt saber. if they were to try it, they'd likely find themselves facing off with IBM, who have a lot more patents than microsoft (~7000 vs. ~42000, IIRC) and the betting is quite good that microsoft infringes on more than a few of those.
yes, but keeping to overselling to a sustainable ratio is necessary. trying to oversell at a fixed ratio from 10 years ago with upward spiraling typical bandwidth use is not.
also, i don't believe he's demanding 100% guaranteed bandwidth but something like "up to 8mbps, guaranteed minimum 2mbps".
i believe the usual point of stability for overselling was about 10%. that is, they could reasonably bet that no more than 10% of the bandwidth sold to customers would be in use at any time. that worked fine for a few years. now, given the rapid proliferation of relatively bandwidth-intensive tasks (p2p, streaming video, etc.), that old bet is no longer sustainable.
I would wonder about the difficulty of the former. Hippos are pretty nasty creatures. By death count, I believe they're the deadliest animal in Africa.
simple method would be "no blocking of anything unless the customer specifically requests X be blocked. if they do request X be blocked, it will be blocked to the extent that it is technically feasible at no charge.". optimally, when the customer signs up, this stuff is arranged with all the other usual stuff and subject to be changed at any time with a single phone call.
of course, this is government, so the simple method doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of actually being used.
the cost of streaming (not downloading - streaming with guaranteed QoS) of a movie at DTV broadcast quality is above 5$ do you actually have a source or some numbers to back up this statement?
also, "DTV broadcast quality" seems kinda nebulous. what definition are you referring to? also, as you meaning exactly as DTV (mpeg-2) or at that quality using a more efficient codec?
as stage6 was running 1080p streams and reportably costing about $1 million per month in bandwidth, so I'm reasonably sure that would be sustainable on a pay-for model, though that's assuming there is adequate bandwidth on the client/isp side of things to make real-time streaming feasible, as it certainly seems feasible on the pushing end.
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start tagging it sciencefiction and shove scifi off.
Of course, I had to look it up. It's a shortened version of "god speed you".
no. Clarke's three laws.
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
then how about we stop with this "X addiction" and make a useful general designation like "addictive personality disorder"? AFAICT, the general treatment for an addiction doesn't really depend on what the addiction is.
they then went Pentium D, core/core duo, core 2 duo/core 2 quad, though i dunno what they're gonna call this bunch.
As far as the immunity goes, it doesn't matter if bush vetoes it. In the absence of legislation granting immunity, there's nothing in the way of the suits.
I certainly wouldn't expect useful technical information from the Disney Internet Group.
problem being that
a. your ISP =/= everyone else's ISP
b. your isp is not likely available everywhere.
i think you misinterpreted what i meant by "this area". i was intending to refer to the area of sciences and technology.
1. still, the general critical thinking skills cultivated in that line of work and decent knowledge of this area are something i like to see in a representative.
/. readers in that area.
2. surely there are some
it doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be good enough.
basic ideal i see is that the government owns the infrastructure (physical plant, fibre in the ground, etc.), and is responsible for its upkeep, but they are not permitted to use the infrastructure to deliver their own services. they're completely out of the market themselves, rendering them impartial. they are only able to lease it out at some constant fee (no volume discounts or whatever) to anyone who wants to use it to deliver services.
as far as i see, that makes for a completely level playing field. mom&pop isp would have the same per capita infrastructure costs as RandomMegaCorp.
with the FOSS patents thing, hell no. they're rattling a blunt saber. if they were to try it, they'd likely find themselves facing off with IBM, who have a lot more patents than microsoft (~7000 vs. ~42000, IIRC) and the betting is quite good that microsoft infringes on more than a few of those.
yes, but keeping to overselling to a sustainable ratio is necessary. trying to oversell at a fixed ratio from 10 years ago with upward spiraling typical bandwidth use is not.
also, i don't believe he's demanding 100% guaranteed bandwidth but something like "up to 8mbps, guaranteed minimum 2mbps".
i believe the usual point of stability for overselling was about 10%. that is, they could reasonably bet that no more than 10% of the bandwidth sold to customers would be in use at any time. that worked fine for a few years. now, given the rapid proliferation of relatively bandwidth-intensive tasks (p2p, streaming video, etc.), that old bet is no longer sustainable.
I would wonder about the difficulty of the former. Hippos are pretty nasty creatures. By death count, I believe they're the deadliest animal in Africa.
several people higher up the conversation have stated that they're closer than most would think.
I dunno about the postal system, but I believe I've heard of customs starting to do that.
simple method would be "no blocking of anything unless the customer specifically requests X be blocked. if they do request X be blocked, it will be blocked to the extent that it is technically feasible at no charge.". optimally, when the customer signs up, this stuff is arranged with all the other usual stuff and subject to be changed at any time with a single phone call.
of course, this is government, so the simple method doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of actually being used.
also, "DTV broadcast quality" seems kinda nebulous. what definition are you referring to? also, as you meaning exactly as DTV (mpeg-2) or at that quality using a more efficient codec?
as stage6 was running 1080p streams and reportably costing about $1 million per month in bandwidth, so I'm reasonably sure that would be sustainable on a pay-for model, though that's assuming there is adequate bandwidth on the client/isp side of things to make real-time streaming feasible, as it certainly seems feasible on the pushing end.
I am begining to wonder if Valenti is still running that joint from the grave. Either that or their phonograph is skipping.