I still don't get why the New York Times is saying the hydroelectric power causes pollution.
Also, I would also add that the Grand Coulee dam wastes a substantial amount of its energy pumping water vertically to irrigate the Grand Coulee, an ancient, dry riverbed for which the Grand Coulee dam was named and the irrigatino of which was what the engineers of the dam envisioned as its true purpose with hydroelectricity being the secondary purpose.
Not surprising is that the New York Times article is now closed for commenting, requiring the gentle reader to submit a formal "letter to the editor" instead. Microsoft has already rebutted.
They are wasting hydroelectric power, which is not polluting. The article mentions diesel generator pollution as a sort of fluff item, but the power that Microsoft is wasting is generated by hydroelectricity, and, therefore, is not polluting.
It is important not only to realize that they are wasting hyroelectricity, which is non-polluting, but more important to realize that Microsoft's much larger data center in The Dalles, Oregon, (along with Google's data center next door), are also powered by hydroelectricity. This should be noted in stark contrast to the mostly coal-fueled Facebook data centers.
This is a non-story, diesel backup generator pollution nonwithstanding.
Just like any other publisher, Amazon does not want to dilute the value of its market offerings by reselling content that is available freely elsewhere.
Note that this does not stop Barnes & Noble Nook store from providing compilations of public-domain works. The downloadable products do say that they are freely available from Project Guutenberg or otherwise, but the easy access to a collection of 20 or 50 works at $0.99 is an undeniable value.
Too bad that this author couldn't spin it that way, because most of these public-domain compilations are available on the Kindle, too.
So, I guess that today's development indicates that the technology is not commercially viable, but somehow needs more research? The sheer number of perfectly good bent-pipe satellites in geosynchronous orbit that are "dead" and moved to graveyard orbits for the sole reason that they have run out of fuel for station-keeping is staggering and should not be ignored.
Is this a good development or a bad one? MDA should have been given more of the benefit-of-the-doubt, or was there some other problem, either business-wise or technology-wise about MDA that we don't know about?
Yes, RS-232 wants 12 volts, but what I was thinking of is a more modern UART application like RS-485 which would be using differential signalling of plus/minus 200 mV which is very much in the scope of this kind of hardware.
Yup, here, too. I don't really know why people are trying to use UNPOWERED USB hubs with this machine and using sub-standard power supplies. I have it hooked up to a USB hub and it is working just fine.
They have all the specifications, but as their FAQ states, they cannot give it out because Broadcom needs money and a business model for you to make a case to actually get the specifications.
The Raspberry Pi foundation does have the specifications.
Perhaps these problems are evident when it is used as a desktop with keyboards and mice, but for embedded and server applications, I find the Raspberry Pi to work very well.
My only real complaint is that I cannot allocate less than 16 megabytes of memory to VideoCore. I would actually like to reduce that to the bare minimum possible for 80x24 screen at one megabyte or less, so as to allocate the most memory to the processor as possible. I find it interesting that the console is 1600x1200 when much more memory could be saved by keeping it at 640x480.
Honestly I wasn't really sure why they put USB ports on the Pi, much less a DisplayPort connector, but I guess that's just what an embedded developer would have expected but the inclusion of those ports makes this a really fascinating machine.
Of course it is the cost of building the fiber and deploying the drop, but this is provided that all houses along the line become subscribers. The money has to come from somewhere. How does a rural provider make back $12K per subscriber? Answer: they don't.
Tthere is no guarantee that all of those customers on the street you're building on are going to become subscribers. This is also why Verizon got permission to physically cut the copper lines in FiOS neighborhoods. It forces a customer who chooses to remain on FiOS forever if they ever want to use Verizon service again, even if just for POTS.
Fiber to the premises is too costly. In relatively built-up suburban areas it can cost between $2000 and $7000 per subscriber. In rural areas it costs between $5000 and $12000 per subscriber. And you wonder why Verizon has stopped building outside of already committed build-outs, and why Verizon has sold entire DSL and FiOS plants to Frontiernet and Fairpoint?
Hybrid fiber/cable as used by cable television companies like Cox and Comcast is far cheaper with comparable actual speed. Naturally with HFC they cannot claim the same theoretical speed but the practical speeds in a modern DOCSIS 3 HFC plant in real life (and not from speedtest.net) is very comparable for far, far less cost to both subscriber and operator.
I agree. Wayland needs to happen. We've wasted so much time, effort, and knowledge keeping X Windows up and running. I sometimes think about how much further along desktop Linux might be if we threw off the shackles of X Windows years ago. There's a reason Android and MacOS do not use X Windows.
They won't bill for the fix and they won't try to up-sell. The real worry is the fact that modems will need to be replaced. I didn't make it clear in my original post that the DSL modem variant of the DNSChanger Zlob trojan really does brick the DSL modem once the FBI shuts the servers off. That costs a lot of money in labor and equipment.
Perhaps I also wasn't clear that these people don't have a lot of money to begin with.
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I still don't get why the New York Times is saying the hydroelectric power causes pollution.
Also, I would also add that the Grand Coulee dam wastes a substantial amount of its energy pumping water vertically to irrigate the Grand Coulee, an ancient, dry riverbed for which the Grand Coulee dam was named and the irrigatino of which was what the engineers of the dam envisioned as its true purpose with hydroelectricity being the secondary purpose.
Not surprising is that the New York Times article is now closed for commenting, requiring the gentle reader to submit a formal "letter to the editor" instead. Microsoft has already rebutted.
They are wasting hydroelectric power, which is not polluting.
The article mentions diesel generator pollution as a sort of fluff item, but the power that Microsoft is wasting is generated by hydroelectricity, and, therefore, is not polluting.
It is important not only to realize that they are wasting hyroelectricity, which is non-polluting, but more important to realize that Microsoft's much larger data center in The Dalles, Oregon, (along with Google's data center next door), are also powered by hydroelectricity. This should be noted in stark contrast to the mostly coal-fueled Facebook data centers.
This is a non-story, diesel backup generator pollution nonwithstanding.
Any time we can get high-quality hinted fonts for no charge is a good time.
The Roku is a very similar device and might be more accessible to people who want to develop content-bearing channels.
Wait a second, the article states ARM-based SnapDragon and then states Atom.
Which is it?
I don't think I was the only one hoping for x86-compatible instead of yet again another ARM-based processor.
Just like any other publisher, Amazon does not want to dilute the value of its market offerings by reselling content that is available freely elsewhere.
Note that this does not stop Barnes & Noble Nook store from providing compilations of public-domain works. The downloadable products do say that they are freely available from Project Guutenberg or otherwise, but the easy access to a collection of 20 or 50 works at $0.99 is an undeniable value.
Too bad that this author couldn't spin it that way, because most of these public-domain compilations are available on the Kindle, too.
It was a great idea but it failed commercially, somehow.
This was proposed as a viable service last year:
http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/dollarsandsense/38349.html
And even Via Satellite magazine published this piece which announced an agreement with at least one major satellite communications provider:
http://www.satellitetoday.com/via/features/37531.html
But early in 2012 they quietly announced termination of the agreement with said major satellite communications provider:
http://www.satellitetoday.com/satn/features/38192.html
So, I guess that today's development indicates that the technology is not commercially viable, but somehow needs more research? The sheer number of perfectly good bent-pipe satellites in geosynchronous orbit that are "dead" and moved to graveyard orbits for the sole reason that they have run out of fuel for station-keeping is staggering and should not be ignored.
Is this a good development or a bad one? MDA should have been given more of the benefit-of-the-doubt, or was there some other problem, either business-wise or technology-wise about MDA that we don't know about?
Yes, RS-232 wants 12 volts, but what I was thinking of is a more modern UART application like RS-485 which would be using differential signalling of plus/minus 200 mV which is very much in the scope of this kind of hardware.
Cheers!!
Okay, I totally expected this kind of response when I mentioned the USB ports. It should have really included real serial ports. I agree.
Yup, here, too. I don't really know why people are trying to use UNPOWERED USB hubs with this machine and using sub-standard power supplies. I have it hooked up to a USB hub and it is working just fine.
An important part of the idea was to make it as inexpensive as possible.
BeagleBoard: $89
Raspberry Pi: $35
They have all the specifications, but as their FAQ states, they cannot give it out because Broadcom needs money and a business model for you to make a case to actually get the specifications.
The Raspberry Pi foundation does have the specifications.
Perhaps these problems are evident when it is used as a desktop with keyboards and mice, but for embedded and server applications, I find the Raspberry Pi to work very well.
My only real complaint is that I cannot allocate less than 16 megabytes of memory to VideoCore. I would actually like to reduce that to the bare minimum possible for 80x24 screen at one megabyte or less, so as to allocate the most memory to the processor as possible. I find it interesting that the console is 1600x1200 when much more memory could be saved by keeping it at 640x480.
Honestly I wasn't really sure why they put USB ports on the Pi, much less a DisplayPort connector, but I guess that's just what an embedded developer would have expected but the inclusion of those ports makes this a really fascinating machine.
Okay, I thought Google Play was a terrible name, but Amazon Glacier leaves me speechless.
Of course it is the cost of building the fiber and deploying the drop, but this is provided that all houses along the line become subscribers. The money has to come from somewhere. How does a rural provider make back $12K per subscriber? Answer: they don't.
Tthere is no guarantee that all of those customers on the street you're building on are going to become subscribers. This is also why Verizon got permission to physically cut the copper lines in FiOS neighborhoods. It forces a customer who chooses to remain on FiOS forever if they ever want to use Verizon service again, even if just for POTS.
Fiber to the premises is too costly. In relatively built-up suburban areas it can cost between $2000 and $7000 per subscriber. In rural areas it costs between $5000 and $12000 per subscriber. And you wonder why Verizon has stopped building outside of already committed build-outs, and why Verizon has sold entire DSL and FiOS plants to Frontiernet and Fairpoint?
Hybrid fiber/cable as used by cable television companies like Cox and Comcast is far cheaper with comparable actual speed. Naturally with HFC they cannot claim the same theoretical speed but the practical speeds in a modern DOCSIS 3 HFC plant in real life (and not from speedtest.net) is very comparable for far, far less cost to both subscriber and operator.
Wow. That's gonna last about five minutes before they have to turn the lights off.
Try L&H.
I can't deny that I almost had to look up the word "toinspire" in the dictionary.
I agree. Wayland needs to happen. We've wasted so much time, effort, and knowledge keeping X Windows up and running. I sometimes think about how much further along desktop Linux might be if we threw off the shackles of X Windows years ago. There's a reason Android and MacOS do not use X Windows.
This survey is skewed by iOS developers trowelling out tons of appstore apps of questionable utility.
That's completely irrelevant. The point is that the ISP needs to spend money to resolve this and in some cases spend a LOT of money to resolve it.
They won't bill for the fix and they won't try to up-sell. The real worry is the fact that modems will need to be replaced. I didn't make it clear in my original post that the DSL modem variant of the DNSChanger Zlob trojan really does brick the DSL modem once the FBI shuts the servers off. That costs a lot of money in labor and equipment.
Perhaps I also wasn't clear that these people don't have a lot of money to begin with.