Services over IP would be great. I'm looking forward to it. However, if everyone is VoIPing or teleconferencing or sharing the videos of their kids first steps, a couple things need to happen.
Sure 6Mbps downstream speed is great, unless you're trying to upload a video to a web host or worse, stream it from your machine. Upload speeds must be 50% of download speeds for this sort of future to happen. I'd love to have multiple VoIP phone lines once I have two or three teenage crotch goblins, but I can't do that if the upstream speed is only 768kbps (or whatever it is with Comcast).
Fix the upstream bandwidth gap, run some fiber to the home and then we'll talk about more services over IP.
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I've developed PHP webapps on windows and I have this advice: Don't.
Solar getting competitive along with wind power, which is now about the same prices as coal over 20 years, means we could provide 100% of our energy through renewable means. Of course, we'd have to upgrade our electrical grid, but it's still great news.
One thing I think you're missing is that radio space has to have certain attributes that make it good for wireless communication. You can't modulate a frequency any faster than, well, its frequency. If you've got a 60Ghz signal, you can only modulate it at, max, 60GHz. And that's using amplitude modulation. If you're doing frequency modulation, you have a certain range you can modulate into before you go out of the range the receiver is listening to.
Now, there's always wideband technologies, which are basically just like using digital signals as wireless morse code: make a spark and the radio waves are picked up somewhere else. Digital works for this, but it interferes with other communications and with other devices.
The reason there are tiny slivers in some places and huge swaths in others is because you can't send a TV signal over a 6Hz radio wave, because you can only modulate it at 6Hz.
An even better idea is to match the amount the kid is able to put up. It gives them the ability to get a nice laptop that'll last a few years. (Spending $700 on a laptop is great if you want to throw it away in a year.) If they bust their butt, they get the hottest machine on the planet. If not, they get a piece of crap or nothing at all.
You're forgetting that the Shuttle was an efficient design until the USAF was told it would be their only way into space. Then they had to add polar launch capability that was never used, plus the ability to glide 1000 miles to reach Vandenberg AFB.
Militarism will only lead to the death of mankind.
I like the idea of using an SRB-derived crew-transfer vehicle. It could sit on station almost indefinitely and be launched quickly in the event of an emergency, no need to refuel or keep large cryotanks topped up.
While it would keep costs down, I don't think that hanging the payload or crew alongside the external fuel tank is the safest design. Keep the crew as far away from the fuel as possible. Also, an error with the crew recovery rocket attached to the capsule could send them into the fireball, which isn't good.
I like the idea of using capsules instead of a shuttle. Having a station in orbit means we don't have to have huge living quarters for the crew. However, the use of capsules would necessitate the development of a "space tug" to carry the crew to places they can't reach with the station or via EVAs.
Creating a couple different booster designs to carry crew and cargo and having modular payload fairings and capsules is an excellent idea. It means we don't ever have to launch more than absolutely necessary, which lowers the costs considerably.
It's ironic that designs that are basically the same as what we used forty years ago are still the best for getting people back from orbit.
This is why I never want to work for a big company. Lazy in-house developers throwing together web apps using Microsoft bits to make "IT apps." That's right; lazy. It's not hard to write a web application using standards-compliant code that any browser can see. I do it every damn day.
Or they could make it so a two-finger touch+click = right click. I have third party software that enables two finger scrolling and that feature is more of a timesaver than the scrolling.
Not quite yet, but it does make exploration a lot easier. The water can be used to make rocket fuel, air to breathe, hydrogen or methane for fuel, irrigate crops, flush toilets and drink.
Considering we'd have to, at the very least, carry a lot of hydrogen along with us to do the same things, this is very, very good news.
You can pick up a corded phone for a song at a yard sale or run on down to your local Big Box retailer and get one for under $20. It's handy to have around in an emergency.
There's lots of times I look at my keyboard. Mostly it's looking to figure out which command is the right one in a graphics program or something. Having the commands right on the keyboard would be really helpful. And having the characters change when I hit a modifier would make typing special characters much easier.
Thermodynamics is a bitch. We can't win, break even, or leave the game. Putting energy into something means getting less out. Ethanol and hydrogen aren't magical sources of free energy. This message brought to you by ExxonMobilShellBP - who say "Isn't the status quo good enough?"
In other news: Life sucks. This shocking revelation brought to you buy Death-o-Matic suicide machines, for when you want to end it all in style.
The ad compares a PII to a G3, both of which are not available anymore and, at the time, the G3 was being made by Motorola and was up to twice as fast as a PII.
They're not saying the G5 or G4 is faster than a new P4. That's why they're switching processors.
I've been spoiled by my Powerbook. It's usually fully awake before I even get the screen the whole way up. My mother-in-law bought an XP laptop and it takes about five minutes to get back to where it was when you closed the screen.
Even so, I'd love for Apple to create a 'hibernate' feature.
OS X transparency that provides visual cues? Good.
Windows transparency that doesn't provide visual cues as to which title bar is in the front window and puts a ~5px border around every window, wasting screen real estate and confusing even the most experienced user? Very Bad.
Transparency can have a use. I like to keep my Terminal.app windows at about 75% opaque and white-on-black so that I can read web pages with commands through them. Saves lots of time switching between apps.
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Sure 6Mbps downstream speed is great, unless you're trying to upload a video to a web host or worse, stream it from your machine. Upload speeds must be 50% of download speeds for this sort of future to happen. I'd love to have multiple VoIP phone lines once I have two or three teenage crotch goblins, but I can't do that if the upstream speed is only 768kbps (or whatever it is with Comcast).
Fix the upstream bandwidth gap, run some fiber to the home and then we'll talk about more services over IP.
I've developed PHP webapps on windows and I have this advice: Don't.
Solar getting competitive along with wind power, which is now about the same prices as coal over 20 years, means we could provide 100% of our energy through renewable means. Of course, we'd have to upgrade our electrical grid, but it's still great news.
Now, there's always wideband technologies, which are basically just like using digital signals as wireless morse code: make a spark and the radio waves are picked up somewhere else. Digital works for this, but it interferes with other communications and with other devices.
The reason there are tiny slivers in some places and huge swaths in others is because you can't send a TV signal over a 6Hz radio wave, because you can only modulate it at 6Hz.
I'm envisioning an ultra-wideband optical link. Unfortunately, we'll all have to wear huge blinking lights on our head.
An even better idea is to match the amount the kid is able to put up. It gives them the ability to get a nice laptop that'll last a few years. (Spending $700 on a laptop is great if you want to throw it away in a year.) If they bust their butt, they get the hottest machine on the planet. If not, they get a piece of crap or nothing at all.
Militarism will only lead to the death of mankind.
Rural America voted to keep this administration in office. Seems to me like they're getting what they voted for.
While it would keep costs down, I don't think that hanging the payload or crew alongside the external fuel tank is the safest design. Keep the crew as far away from the fuel as possible. Also, an error with the crew recovery rocket attached to the capsule could send them into the fireball, which isn't good.
I like the idea of using capsules instead of a shuttle. Having a station in orbit means we don't have to have huge living quarters for the crew. However, the use of capsules would necessitate the development of a "space tug" to carry the crew to places they can't reach with the station or via EVAs.
Creating a couple different booster designs to carry crew and cargo and having modular payload fairings and capsules is an excellent idea. It means we don't ever have to launch more than absolutely necessary, which lowers the costs considerably.
It's ironic that designs that are basically the same as what we used forty years ago are still the best for getting people back from orbit.
This is why I never want to work for a big company. Lazy in-house developers throwing together web apps using Microsoft bits to make "IT apps." That's right; lazy. It's not hard to write a web application using standards-compliant code that any browser can see. I do it every damn day.
Or they could make it so a two-finger touch+click = right click. I have third party software that enables two finger scrolling and that feature is more of a timesaver than the scrolling.
Considering we'd have to, at the very least, carry a lot of hydrogen along with us to do the same things, this is very, very good news.
Hmm... My social network seems contain an ethernet loopback...
Wife's iBook - Also near noiseless
My Powerbook - Noiseless and warm on those cold winter nights
Heck, the noisiest thing in my house is my printer (Brother HL-2040), and that's only when it's printing.
You can pick up a corded phone for a song at a yard sale or run on down to your local Big Box retailer and get one for under $20. It's handy to have around in an emergency.
There's lots of times I look at my keyboard. Mostly it's looking to figure out which command is the right one in a graphics program or something. Having the commands right on the keyboard would be really helpful. And having the characters change when I hit a modifier would make typing special characters much easier.
In other news: Life sucks. This shocking revelation brought to you buy Death-o-Matic suicide machines, for when you want to end it all in style.
They're not saying the G5 or G4 is faster than a new P4. That's why they're switching processors.
Sheesh.
Even so, I'd love for Apple to create a 'hibernate' feature.
Yeah, but the printer is cheaper than the ink cartridges. What's the problem?
And yet there are cancer patients filling the pockets of pharmaceutical company executives just to live.
All mission statements from for-profit companies should read thusly: "We exist to make a profit. Even legally, if at all possible."
Windows transparency that doesn't provide visual cues as to which title bar is in the front window and puts a ~5px border around every window, wasting screen real estate and confusing even the most experienced user? Very Bad.
Transparency can have a use. I like to keep my Terminal.app windows at about 75% opaque and white-on-black so that I can read web pages with commands through them. Saves lots of time switching between apps.
This is especially true as taxi drivers tend to be in the city more, where they can take advantage of the Prius' hybrid technology.