Not only that, but that 54Mbps is raw (PHY) data rate, not user data rate, which is at best about 25Mbps with 802.11g, and typically considerably less.
100Mbps Ethernet is also a raw (PHY) data rate; however, the user data rate is very close to that as Ethernet's framing and the CSMA/CD protocol used take up very little bandwidth.
You know, calling g 54Mbps (and any of the wireless by their "Mbps") is very misleading. Using that metric, FDDI could've been called 125Mbps FDDI because of the 8b/10b encoding used (it was a 125Mbps PHY rate, while the actual packets were essentially 100Mbps).
Well.... let's not forget that even the "hard vacuum" of outer space contains something - I realize I'm being pedantic here, but [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum]:
even in interstellar space, where there are only a few hydrogen atoms per cubic centimeter
That's talking about interstellar space, of course, and here we're talking about a region which is comparatively packed with gases, from the Earth and don't forget the solar wind, which is particulate as well (not radiation).
There will always be some "friction" loss and so the orbit will eventually decay - just very gradually.
That was then, this is now - I suspect that we'll have plenty of terrorists who (a) got pissed off at the U.S.A. because of how this war has been fought (note - I believe that the outcome could've been considerably different had more than 5 minutes of "the people will love us for liberating them" thought been put into reconstruction - maybe consider fixing what you bombed, right away, while the country was in shock at the massive defeat and change?), and (b) learned plenty of guerilla tactics there in Iraq - so, the next wave of terrorism is likely to have a lot to do with Iraq.
The reason for the board's decision is that the SIS has information indicating that one of the participants of the working group cast more than one vote
I suppose that by buying votes, M$ effectively voted more than once, so both the referenced article and all of the conjecture could potentially be correct...
I used satellite (Starband) for 4 years, and in general I got download speeds of 400-800Kbps, which is fine for typical usage. Upload sucked though at about 30-40Kbps (fastish modem speed). Ping times (to google) were typically about 700ms.
In general it worked fine; I had a home lab to go with my home office, so I never had to upload images to a remote lab for testing purposes. I could check in C text files using CVS reasonably well. Checking out a large source tree however was painful (too many connections being made; the connection startup overhead was large) so I would typically ssh to a remote host, do the checkout there, tar it, then I'd scp it over the satellite (one connection, and then 400-800Kbps once it was streaming). That was ok.
Of course, using ssh over that link was horrible; I could type a whole command line before seeing any remote echo, and forget line edit...
Now I have a T1, and I share it to my closest neighbors (150 and 250 meters away) for a small monthly fee, which barely makes up for the time I spent setting up their networks; their use doesn't crimp mine, and all seems well. No, T1 isn't 6Mbps; however, the service is amazing. It's *never* down, and *never* throttled at all, up or down link. So reliable, and monitored, that it's almost a pain - if I shut down my router for more than 5 minutes, I can expect my cel phone to ring with AT&T on the line checking if they should roll a truck about an outage.
As far as costs go - $300/mo - so if you're considering T1, do your research, there are deals out there. The best I could get until I found this was a 3-year contract at $525/mo, which was clearly out of the question for me. I called around many times over a couple of years, and one day I got an email from a reseller who said they could work a deal (SBC was trying to keep someone else out, I forget who, but if you had had a quote from the other guys then SBC was willing to go a 3 year contract at 300/mo). Given that first Telstar 8 went dead with no warning for over a week, and I had no service for that time; and then I had a satellite modem keel over dead and had to scramble to get another one; I jumped at the chance.
All said, I'd prefer a "typical" broadband with a $50-70/mo price tag. However, I really enjoy living in the country, 10 minutes away from a great town with lots of culture (thank tourism I suppose, and lots of retired folks, and some well-to-do ex-hippies), so the resultant $200/mo for my T1 (after my neighbors pitching in) is a small price to pay for a 12-foot commute...
If you look at a aeroplane on the ground, the plane of the wings is typically parallel, or close to parallel, to the axis of the fuselage. During flight, however, the wings are positioned upward somewhat - 5 degrees? - which is considered the angle of attack compared to the direction of travel. The fuselage will therefore also be pointed upward somewhat, as it comes along for the ride.
Given that facing forwards on a plane, I always feel like I'm facing uphill (not overly unpleasant), I'd imagine that facing backwards would require that the seats be considerably more reclined, else you'd feel like you're going to fall forwards out of your seat.
The point is that you don't have the computer auto-decrypt for you - that requires the password to be stored, which you don't do.
Instead, whenever you're going to access the drive, you have to provide a password; if the cops get the computer, they'd need a password or else the disk looks like trash.
I may be but an uncouth Orc, but I know quality when I see it ("I will crush and destroy and...ooo...shiny..."), and TB's quality. Even local chat isn't horrible (though I rarely subscribe, only when trying hard to sell), and it's just such a nice place...
Possibly not the most important issue (which I don't recall claiming)
Not exactly, but having put on my slashdot-pendantic mode briefly, I chose to interpret it that way - just to have something to say. To tell the truth, I didn't expect that you really thought it should be in front of everything else, but being in the front of the line is, well, being in front...
Of course, the vast populace considers things like war and the basic economy important, but unless interest rates go back to 8 or 12%, or they lose their jobs and houses, they're not going to pay attention to a gradually degrading economy. The war? Old news. Software patents? Well, ideas should be patentable, no? At least that's the common perception of what patents are, wrong or otherwise. I can't tell you how many times I've had to someone how this or that isn't patentable for various reasons. At least, not up to full-frontal assault on the patent... I probably err on the side of "be serious, that's obvious/beendone/just basically not patentable...".
Why would John Q. Public care about software patents, though, really? How much do software patents actually affect his daily life? Ours, perhaps, but his?
The SN 2006gy data suggest that spectacular supernovas from the first stars - rather than completely collapsing to a black hole as theorized - may be more common than previously believed.
From my memory (most likely faulty - I'm sure of getting correction from this group;)) of supernovae processes, I seem to recall that when there's a sudden energy output drop (typically due to running out of one fusion fuel, such as C/N/O in a red giant), stellar collapse begins; this collapse may be halted by increased pressures and temperatures "igniting" the next fuel in the stellar chain (H->He, He->C/N/O).
With massive stars (though not as massive as TFA discusses) the final collapse causes a shockwave that finally ignites a layer deep in the star which burns so hot and explosively that it blows the outside layers of the star off, giving us the nebula.
The leftover, however, continues with its collapse, as there's no long enough star left to run much fusion - especially of the heavier "ash" at the core, which may even be elements up to iron, which takes more energy to fuse than the fusion gives out in return, and thus is a "heat sink".
My question, based on this (admittedly faulty) memory, is two-fold:
Does this 100-200 solar mass star completely explode, or is there a remnant left behind?
If there is a remnant, how big (massive) is it, and should we expect to find a neutron star or a black hole there?
... wrote during a Monday creative writing class "as a teacher, don't be surprised on inspiring the first CG shooting,"
and then goes on with:
... So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P 90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did.
So face it, this isn't a case of some bored kid writing a war story and a teacher being upset, or a kid writing about how he got even with bullies by beating them to a pulp after a lifetime of being pulped himself.
This is a kid who's basically threatened to shoot the school up. Even if he really wouldn't (like probably [insert made-up statistic here]% of the kids who may write such drivel), he's putting himself up as a threat. Just like if you mail a letter to the prez that you're out to get him (even an unspecific threat like that, "out to get him"), you can and should expect some serious attention to be paid to you.
There's a technical manual I had access to - freely available, with owner's copyright, on their website. I can download it freely, and I can print it.
I can't buy it.
Damn.
I realize I'm probably a dinosaur in that I get more out of printed copy than what's on my screen - I like having a book I can open up and read. My nice dual 1680x1050 LCD's definitely aren't anywhere near the quality of the printed copy.
I ended up printing it at Kinko's so I could get a decently bound (spiral bound - opens 360 flat) at my own cost - more than $20 total; I remember when I would've gotten a free copy from the chip rep. I'd've happily bought a copy from them anyways, even though it's free on-line - I just want to be able to use both!
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100Mbps Ethernet is also a raw (PHY) data rate; however, the user data rate is very close to that as Ethernet's framing and the CSMA/CD protocol used take up very little bandwidth.
You know, calling g 54Mbps (and any of the wireless by their "Mbps") is very misleading. Using that metric, FDDI could've been called 125Mbps FDDI because of the 8b/10b encoding used (it was a 125Mbps PHY rate, while the actual packets were essentially 100Mbps).
The interesting bit here is that you have a small craft making 30 knots crossing on 2,000 gallons; this presumably is out of the norm.
ie, you don't get as much light.....
There will always be some "friction" loss and so the orbit will eventually decay - just very gradually.
Yes, but you did mention "rational", and given the submission's title.......
However, TFA as others have pointed out doesn't live up to the hype of the title of the posting.
That was then, this is now - I suspect that we'll have plenty of terrorists who (a) got pissed off at the U.S.A. because of how this war has been fought (note - I believe that the outcome could've been considerably different had more than 5 minutes of "the people will love us for liberating them" thought been put into reconstruction - maybe consider fixing what you bombed, right away, while the country was in shock at the massive defeat and change?), and (b) learned plenty of guerilla tactics there in Iraq - so, the next wave of terrorism is likely to have a lot to do with Iraq.
Well, you apparently got to Tasmania yourself unlike the early settlers, but sounds like you were of like mind ;)
I heard that there'd be an integrated Duke Nukem Forever game built into the skycar.
In general it worked fine; I had a home lab to go with my home office, so I never had to upload images to a remote lab for testing purposes. I could check in C text files using CVS reasonably well. Checking out a large source tree however was painful (too many connections being made; the connection startup overhead was large) so I would typically ssh to a remote host, do the checkout there, tar it, then I'd scp it over the satellite (one connection, and then 400-800Kbps once it was streaming). That was ok.
Of course, using ssh over that link was horrible; I could type a whole command line before seeing any remote echo, and forget line edit...
Now I have a T1, and I share it to my closest neighbors (150 and 250 meters away) for a small monthly fee, which barely makes up for the time I spent setting up their networks; their use doesn't crimp mine, and all seems well. No, T1 isn't 6Mbps; however, the service is amazing. It's *never* down, and *never* throttled at all, up or down link. So reliable, and monitored, that it's almost a pain - if I shut down my router for more than 5 minutes, I can expect my cel phone to ring with AT&T on the line checking if they should roll a truck about an outage.
As far as costs go - $300/mo - so if you're considering T1, do your research, there are deals out there. The best I could get until I found this was a 3-year contract at $525/mo, which was clearly out of the question for me. I called around many times over a couple of years, and one day I got an email from a reseller who said they could work a deal (SBC was trying to keep someone else out, I forget who, but if you had had a quote from the other guys then SBC was willing to go a 3 year contract at 300/mo). Given that first Telstar 8 went dead with no warning for over a week, and I had no service for that time; and then I had a satellite modem keel over dead and had to scramble to get another one; I jumped at the chance.
All said, I'd prefer a "typical" broadband with a $50-70/mo price tag. However, I really enjoy living in the country, 10 minutes away from a great town with lots of culture (thank tourism I suppose, and lots of retired folks, and some well-to-do ex-hippies), so the resultant $200/mo for my T1 (after my neighbors pitching in) is a small price to pay for a 12-foot commute...
If you look at a aeroplane on the ground, the plane of the wings is typically parallel, or close to parallel, to the axis of the fuselage. During flight, however, the wings are positioned upward somewhat - 5 degrees? - which is considered the angle of attack compared to the direction of travel. The fuselage will therefore also be pointed upward somewhat, as it comes along for the ride.
Given that facing forwards on a plane, I always feel like I'm facing uphill (not overly unpleasant), I'd imagine that facing backwards would require that the seats be considerably more reclined, else you'd feel like you're going to fall forwards out of your seat.
The Old World had:
4. Death
5. ???
New (note, I only know WOW):
4. Temporary death
5. Ressurection
Maybe we should be keeping our eyes open for a blast of tachyons ahead of the light show ;)
Instead, whenever you're going to access the drive, you have to provide a password; if the cops get the computer, they'd need a password or else the disk looks like trash.
I invoke Godwin's Law on this......
I may be but an uncouth Orc, but I know quality when I see it ("I will crush and destroy and...ooo...shiny..."), and TB's quality. Even local chat isn't horrible (though I rarely subscribe, only when trying hard to sell), and it's just such a nice place...
And, of course, most of my friends are T's!
Of course, the vast populace considers things like war and the basic economy important, but unless interest rates go back to 8 or 12%, or they lose their jobs and houses, they're not going to pay attention to a gradually degrading economy. The war? Old news. Software patents? Well, ideas should be patentable, no? At least that's the common perception of what patents are, wrong or otherwise. I can't tell you how many times I've had to someone how this or that isn't patentable for various reasons. At least, not up to full-frontal assault on the patent... I probably err on the side of "be serious, that's obvious/beendone/just basically not patentable...".
Why would John Q. Public care about software patents, though, really? How much do software patents actually affect his daily life? Ours, perhaps, but his?
If so, then this country's in more trouble than I'd realized before, and I thought it was in a sorry shape *then*.
You've already taught me so much! ;)
I'm considering raising organic beef, lamb and eggs.....
With massive stars (though not as massive as TFA discusses) the final collapse causes a shockwave that finally ignites a layer deep in the star which burns so hot and explosively that it blows the outside layers of the star off, giving us the nebula.
The leftover, however, continues with its collapse, as there's no long enough star left to run much fusion - especially of the heavier "ash" at the core, which may even be elements up to iron, which takes more energy to fuse than the fusion gives out in return, and thus is a "heat sink".
My question, based on this (admittedly faulty) memory, is two-fold:
So face it, this isn't a case of some bored kid writing a war story and a teacher being upset, or a kid writing about how he got even with bullies by beating them to a pulp after a lifetime of being pulped himself.
This is a kid who's basically threatened to shoot the school up. Even if he really wouldn't (like probably [insert made-up statistic here]% of the kids who may write such drivel), he's putting himself up as a threat. Just like if you mail a letter to the prez that you're out to get him (even an unspecific threat like that, "out to get him"), you can and should expect some serious attention to be paid to you.
Go get 'im.
I can't buy it.
Damn.
I realize I'm probably a dinosaur in that I get more out of printed copy than what's on my screen - I like having a book I can open up and read. My nice dual 1680x1050 LCD's definitely aren't anywhere near the quality of the printed copy.
I ended up printing it at Kinko's so I could get a decently bound (spiral bound - opens 360 flat) at my own cost - more than $20 total; I remember when I would've gotten a free copy from the chip rep. I'd've happily bought a copy from them anyways, even though it's free on-line - I just want to be able to use both!