It's easy to forget that the Moon is more than one light-second away from us. I mean, it's just *there* so we think it's so close, or really, just don't think much about it.
Sort of yes, sort of no.... data would stream just fine, but interactive traffic was attrocious.
I think you forgot what a "round-trip" is - it's not just up to the satellite and back; a packet round-trip has to make that trip *twice*.
Consider a ping, which is what typing on a telnet/ssh type link requires; assuming optimal packet transfer (one each way), we get earth-sat-earth-sat-earth, so four transitions. Even if we ignore the fact that I wasn't directly under the satellite (I'm at 39N, and about 11 degrees W of that sat as well) at take your 35Kkm value, my signal still has to travel through space 140,000km, which is about 500msec. Add to that typical terrestrial delays and I got a minimum ping of about 700msec.
You may not notice a 700msec delay, but I certainly did, and did my best to avoid any sort of interactive traffic at all, and you can completely forget any sort of interactive internet gaming.
Note that you incur this delay at the start-up of any connection as well, so utilities which spawn many connections in succession suffered greatly. I do so appreciate a T1 after years of that....
Wow. Last satellite internet service I had had astounding delays.
Of course, that was with a geosync satellite, and without RTFA I can guess they're planning on using sats which are considerably closer than this, but if they're really close then they'll zooming around too fast I'd image that could cause trouble with their OSPF or BGP....
I don't have an ISP.... well, mostly; I have a business T1 link from AT&T (nothing remotely as good or better around here), but I'm under no illusions that AT&T won't still keep track of stuff.
Maybe they don't, but I have to assume that they do.
I'd assume that your dedicated server has the same sort of issue.
I use gentoo, and because I'm sadistic I love the install process
Not having used Gentoo, I may be wrong here, but I think that the word you're looking for is masochistic.
Of course, unless you're inflicting pain on the penguin, but given my own installation experience I think you're the one getting the pain... and apparently enjoying it.
I've got a little portable media player/flash reader/disk drive unit that I got for storing digipics while on the road. It eats batteries something fierce; perhaps I'll swap the HDD for one of these flash units and it'll last a bit longer.
If you don't have the patience for his novels, I don't recommend them.
Mostly, I agree.
However, I do have to mention that "Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham" is quite approachable by just about anyone, and makes for a quick, enjoyable read [amazon link].
Of course, it has *nothing* to do with Middle-Earth and is just barely recognizable by most Tolkein readers as being his...
Currently we have to post in robots.txt not to spider a site; this is traditional because originally, people *wanted* to be spidered.
Since (at least in the USA) we (supposedly) value our privacy above all, perhaps the *absence* of a robots.txt file should indicate that a site is off-limits, and you should have to specifically allow spidering instead?
As I mentioned above, this is counter to the traditional method, but it would certainly make it unambiguous - don't spider unless the robots.txt specifically allows it.
Actually I disagree somewhat.
What if humans aren't the cause?
Should we not take steps to normalize the temperature anyways to stabilize the environment we prefer?:)
So the idea is that without the impact, we'd have a really nice, smooth, consistent crust layer?
Would there not still be plate techtonics? A smooth crust requires the lack thereof, because colisions and subduction cause the crust to fold and thrust.
Wouldn't there still be convection in the mantle? Unless you're going to freeze the Earth's mantle (freeze, as in solidify), the crust will be subjected to forces from within.
I understand that in the summertime, incandescent lighting contributes to the heat-A/C-electricity shortage problems; however, in the wintertime, their "electricity waste" is contributing to the heat of buildings that they're in, which are sometimes heated using electricity anyways.
My chicken henhouse is heated in the wintertime using a heat lamp on a rheostat; said heat lamp is, of course, incandescent.
Thomas says he is telling his story now because he's tired of the life he's lived on the boards over the last five years and resentful of the control the FBI maintained over him for so long. He also wants to warn the public about the risks they face from the carding community and deter kids from being seduced into a life of crime.
Resentful of the control? C'mon, man, you didn't do a day in the slammer, and they could've locked you up tight. So, instead, you're basically outing the russian mafia?
Right then. Good luck, it's been nice knowing you.
Even if a broadcaster has a license to operate over some frequency, radio is still "publicly owned" - the US gov't didn't give it up with the license. AM, FM radio stations also have a license to broadcast.
October [1997]: XM Satellite Radio obtains one of only two satellite digital audio radio service licenses offered by the Federal Communications Commission.
While wikipedia may not be the ultimate authority, we can still probably derive from the above statement that the communication band used by XM apparently required a license, and thus operates over "publicly owned or regulated bandwidths".
Growth would be exponential to begin with, but eventually the growth would slow down, and approach zero.
The exponential growth occurs while each probe has vast amounts of unmapped space, but eventually there will be so many probes present that the choices for further discovery are limited more and more; eventually, the whole galaxy will be "known"/"discovered" and there will be nothing left to discover.... until the probes bugger off to the next island in the universe.
Note that there are limits to hardening, just as there are limits to the protection from lightning strikes that your equipment will handle (similar but different).
I agree that Verizon is pretty tight-assed about syncing, but it's trivial to drop MP3's onto the microSD for a number of their phones to be able to play music - my kids decided to go this route instead of having an ipod and a phone in their pockets.
For manipulating ringtones etc, use bitpim and you can create your own custom for many different phones.
Seriously, though - I've learned what questions I should expect real answers to, and have learned to recognize truths about them.
Other questions, though ("what's this meeting really about?", "where do you see us in six months from now?" etc) will tell you a lot about the boss. Some bosses will hem and haw about their answer (discard results - you got at best a watered-down version of reality there); some will smile and tell you something (trust not at all); the best will say, "that's something I can't tell you right now", and you have to respect that answer, because employees are often not privy to the real answers, and personally I'd rather be given this answer than a load of crap.
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It's easy to forget that the Moon is more than one light-second away from us. I mean, it's just *there* so we think it's so close, or really, just don't think much about it.
I think you forgot what a "round-trip" is - it's not just up to the satellite and back; a packet round-trip has to make that trip *twice*.
Consider a ping, which is what typing on a telnet/ssh type link requires; assuming optimal packet transfer (one each way), we get earth-sat-earth-sat-earth, so four transitions. Even if we ignore the fact that I wasn't directly under the satellite (I'm at 39N, and about 11 degrees W of that sat as well) at take your 35Kkm value, my signal still has to travel through space 140,000km, which is about 500msec. Add to that typical terrestrial delays and I got a minimum ping of about 700msec.
You may not notice a 700msec delay, but I certainly did, and did my best to avoid any sort of interactive traffic at all, and you can completely forget any sort of interactive internet gaming.
Note that you incur this delay at the start-up of any connection as well, so utilities which spawn many connections in succession suffered greatly. I do so appreciate a T1 after years of that....
Really!
Wow. Last satellite internet service I had had astounding delays.
Of course, that was with a geosync satellite, and without RTFA I can guess they're planning on using sats which are considerably closer than this, but if they're really close then they'll zooming around too fast I'd image that could cause trouble with their OSPF or BGP....
It might just affect your concerns about lightning strikes.
Maybe they don't, but I have to assume that they do.
I'd assume that your dedicated server has the same sort of issue.
Of course, unless you're inflicting pain on the penguin, but given my own installation experience I think you're the one getting the pain... and apparently enjoying it.
I've got a little portable media player/flash reader/disk drive unit that I got for storing digipics while on the road. It eats batteries something fierce; perhaps I'll swap the HDD for one of these flash units and it'll last a bit longer.
However, I do have to mention that "Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham" is quite approachable by just about anyone, and makes for a quick, enjoyable read [amazon link].
Of course, it has *nothing* to do with Middle-Earth and is just barely recognizable by most Tolkein readers as being his...
Since (at least in the USA) we (supposedly) value our privacy above all, perhaps the *absence* of a robots.txt file should indicate that a site is off-limits, and you should have to specifically allow spidering instead?
As I mentioned above, this is counter to the traditional method, but it would certainly make it unambiguous - don't spider unless the robots.txt specifically allows it.
The Grand Canyon is public. Similarly, pictures of the Grand Canyon that I take have my copyright.
So, why wouldn't a videotape of a public function belong the he who took the videotape?
Actually I disagree somewhat. What if humans aren't the cause? Should we not take steps to normalize the temperature anyways to stabilize the environment we prefer? :)
Would there not still be plate techtonics? A smooth crust requires the lack thereof, because colisions and subduction cause the crust to fold and thrust.
Wouldn't there still be convection in the mantle? Unless you're going to freeze the Earth's mantle (freeze, as in solidify), the crust will be subjected to forces from within.
For that matter - what about electric furnaces?
I understand that in the summertime, incandescent lighting contributes to the heat-A/C-electricity shortage problems; however, in the wintertime, their "electricity waste" is contributing to the heat of buildings that they're in, which are sometimes heated using electricity anyways.
My chicken henhouse is heated in the wintertime using a heat lamp on a rheostat; said heat lamp is, of course, incandescent.
Ours have eleven.
Still, 14 months is less than I'd expect if I were to duplicate his crimes.
Resentful of the control? C'mon, man, you didn't do a day in the slammer, and they could've locked you up tight. So, instead, you're basically outing the russian mafia?
Right then. Good luck, it's been nice knowing you.
Interesting article, but I call BS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xm states:
While wikipedia may not be the ultimate authority, we can still probably derive from the above statement that the communication band used by XM apparently required a license, and thus operates over "publicly owned or regulated bandwidths".So much for selling old movies at a yard sale.
The exponential growth occurs while each probe has vast amounts of unmapped space, but eventually there will be so many probes present that the choices for further discovery are limited more and more; eventually, the whole galaxy will be "known"/"discovered" and there will be nothing left to discover.... until the probes bugger off to the next island in the universe.
Note that there are limits to hardening, just as there are limits to the protection from lightning strikes that your equipment will handle (similar but different).
For manipulating ringtones etc, use bitpim and you can create your own custom for many different phones.
Seriously, though - I've learned what questions I should expect real answers to, and have learned to recognize truths about them.
Other questions, though ("what's this meeting really about?", "where do you see us in six months from now?" etc) will tell you a lot about the boss. Some bosses will hem and haw about their answer (discard results - you got at best a watered-down version of reality there); some will smile and tell you something (trust not at all); the best will say, "that's something I can't tell you right now", and you have to respect that answer, because employees are often not privy to the real answers, and personally I'd rather be given this answer than a load of crap.
My '96 Chevy Impala SS hit its estimates right on the head - 20/26 isn't bad at all for a corvette-powered 4-door.
That's equivalent to a link.