Early 3G was ~200kbps, only double of what the 2G standard could do (128kbps). Back when 1G/2G was available, ~56/128kbps was maintained on the network. The current average for 3G/4G across carriers is 0.5Mbps and 1.5Mbps respectively. It's hard to find actual historical data because after the iPhone, the marketing drones started redefining bandwidth as the amount of GB (the amount of transit, not the amount of bandwidth) you were allowed per month.
Also, 20Gbps seems to be an aggregate of all connections in a given geographical area. It is just the amount of bandwidth the radio waves make available before all the demux and filtering has been done. No way in hell, anyone in the US is going to outfit a cell tower with a 1Gbps connection, let alone 10 or 20.
You forgot to include the yearly $400 for Adobe so that they can create PDF's of said screenshots and Word documents so people with other versions or missing fonts can also see the Outlook e-mail.
Why would you need MS Office to communicate with others. That's what we have e-mail and phones and a number of other tools for. Using a Word document to communicate something generally gets ignored. Also, most people have evolved to be able to use more than just MSOffice, they can use LibreOffice, Google Docs etc. If your HR drones fail to recognize the technological process since 2000, their performance needs reviewing.
Pick one, make sure your systems run against it. If you always use NTP sourced data, you cannot assume your GPS sourced data (or local nuclear clock data) will give you the same results.
You can never assume that time will not change due to external factors. That could be due to a sysadmin executing the 'ntpdate' command, leap years, leap seconds or even daylight savings.
You're talking mainly about human representations of time though and although the conversion should be handled delicately, they should not be used for internal time representations (a major mistake I see very often is to handle/parse hh:mm:ss strings back and forth between a model and a controller).
The testcase however is one that does need handling though if you do require such reliance on time. It may not be simple but yes, it is possible to fake the clock (ntpdsim). External (live/production) data within a test environment is likewise a 'bad thing', you most likely will not handle outliers if you assume the current external data includes improper data.
Most, if not all of them. Unix time is leap second-ignorant and there are a number of other time sources that likewise handle leap seconds. If you do for some reason, require solar seconds or GPS time, there are other solutions for that. Most likely though, it's your platform that needs to handle the leap seconds and Linux, Mac, BSD, Solaris is more than capable of that, don't know about Windows or other esoteric systems though.
The issue is in human date/time representations and/or bad programming. I've seen many times programmers parsing a MM-DD-YYYY HH:mm:ss string rather than a proper timestamp. I've also seen programmers implement timers even in lower-level languages like C by simply subtracting "$current time" - "$past time" or having a timestamp with a "unique" requirement. If you've ever worked on platforms that do not keep accurate track of time or have no hardware clock such as embedded devices, virtual servers etc, then you know that it's a bad idea.
If you're relying on mm:ss to progress 'properly' during these time events, then you're in trouble. The article gives the example of timers as well which just gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Slow news day? Software dependent on accurate timing should be able to handle such exceptions such as leap seconds, leap years etc. It is a simple test case and is well documented. So if your software fails, you have a bug in your software, which shows you either didn't test or you're simply incompetent.
Also, most if not all languages have libraries that can handle accurate timing very well.
VPS has the same problem as shared hosting amongst the majority, especially the 'cheap' VPS. Shared hosting == VPS and Shared Hosting is way more resource-friendly to the hosting company.
A good VPS is nicer to have than a shared host because you're (generally) not locked to a specific operating system or software stack but if you're just doing static or simple PHP content you may be better off with a good shared host than a similar cost VPS.
Does your OS actually do TRIM or is it merely reporting that it supports TRIM? Or does it require a binary to execute TRIM? I've noticed, most devices are simply ignoring TRIM commands. Also, do you actually continuously verify that your data is written and stored correctly? Unless you have ZFS or BTRFS, you most likely are accumulating errors across your data.
I wouldn't say that. There are plenty of stories about random SSD corruption across all platforms. Some platforms (Windows/Mac) simply do not execute TRIM unless the device is whitelisted or a proprietary piece of binary is running on the computer.
TRIM is a kludge at best, a hack to get better performance out of shitty drives. Get a decent SSD and you won't need TRIM.
Bluetooth works pretty well, never had a problem with it. I have 2 controllers, keyboard and a mouse, no latency issues ever. If you're working on a console, latency doesn't matter anyway. You won't get much over 30fps anyway which gives the controller a decent 30ms to respond.
No, federal regulations state that all electronic transactions are covered with a consumer liability of $50, your state may have better protections. Most banks do not even hassle about it, they'd rather keep you as a customer so they will waive the liability. If your bank does not, change banks.
Those were pretty linear as well though. They did have a great number of 'hidden area's', easter eggs and secondary entrances that made it worth playing the game over and over. Some of those things were actually due to system limitations and clever hacks.
It's not whether the government considers you 'served' by a utility, it's whether a person buying the house is. Some/most people are okay with well water and sewage tanks, once they find out the cost involved of getting it taken care of, they'll decide that way.
You cannot sell someone a house without a steady source of electric these days though. You could in the 1920's, perhaps even in the 1950's, but since the 1970's, a house without electric or at least a planned rollout of it would have been a bad investment. Communications (at least phone or cell) is also pretty much a guarantee these days, has been since the 1990's. Available, high-speed Internet is the next thing and within a decade, property areas without it will decline sharply in value.
And regards the government thinking I'm served. I did look it up online, searching for an alternative. They gave me 10 options for high speed internet:
10Gbps - carrier-grade connection (because their fiber runs through my street) 50Mbps - 3 TWC subsidiaries (TWC, TWC Business Class, TWC Enterprise solutions...) 10Mbps - 4 satellite providers 3Mbps - DSL 1Mbps - LocalNet dial-up
Why is it worrisome? Your bank covers any and all malicious charges with a single call, barely any questions asked. Sure, you're out of a card for 2 days, but then you just use another one.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but fresh drinking water is becoming a worldwide problem. We have heated the planet up beyond the point where you can argue that it's a cycle. It will get worse and you will need more water and people will kill to get it. So build the damned plants and you will become the Republic of California in less than a hundred years.
Yes. radiation hardened and MIL spec is used in a lot more places than just space. A lot of medical equipment or even just stuff that needs to last uses those specifications. If you're building something and you want to make sure it works when purchased and lasts for 20 years after that, that's what you buy.
There are a lot smaller designs around. The NR-1 sub had one, the soviets built several and currently there is a resurgence in the design of self-contained miniature reactors with several companies promising 50kW designs that could be easily installed underground (like a pool).
Coal, wind and nuclear are also a bunch more expensive and less accessible. If anyone would sell me a small reactor (e.g. from a sub or whatever), I'd be more than happy to install it in my back yard. But for now, the only thing you can do yourself is solar unless you have a plot of land somewhere outside a city.
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Early 3G was ~200kbps, only double of what the 2G standard could do (128kbps). Back when 1G/2G was available, ~56/128kbps was maintained on the network. The current average for 3G/4G across carriers is 0.5Mbps and 1.5Mbps respectively. It's hard to find actual historical data because after the iPhone, the marketing drones started redefining bandwidth as the amount of GB (the amount of transit, not the amount of bandwidth) you were allowed per month.
Also, 20Gbps seems to be an aggregate of all connections in a given geographical area. It is just the amount of bandwidth the radio waves make available before all the demux and filtering has been done. No way in hell, anyone in the US is going to outfit a cell tower with a 1Gbps connection, let alone 10 or 20.
100kbps before you're throttled, 9600bps afterwards?
You forgot to include the yearly $400 for Adobe so that they can create PDF's of said screenshots and Word documents so people with other versions or missing fonts can also see the Outlook e-mail.
Why would you need MS Office to communicate with others. That's what we have e-mail and phones and a number of other tools for. Using a Word document to communicate something generally gets ignored. Also, most people have evolved to be able to use more than just MSOffice, they can use LibreOffice, Google Docs etc. If your HR drones fail to recognize the technological process since 2000, their performance needs reviewing.
Pick one, make sure your systems run against it. If you always use NTP sourced data, you cannot assume your GPS sourced data (or local nuclear clock data) will give you the same results.
You can never assume that time will not change due to external factors. That could be due to a sysadmin executing the 'ntpdate' command, leap years, leap seconds or even daylight savings.
You're talking mainly about human representations of time though and although the conversion should be handled delicately, they should not be used for internal time representations (a major mistake I see very often is to handle/parse hh:mm:ss strings back and forth between a model and a controller).
The testcase however is one that does need handling though if you do require such reliance on time. It may not be simple but yes, it is possible to fake the clock (ntpdsim). External (live/production) data within a test environment is likewise a 'bad thing', you most likely will not handle outliers if you assume the current external data includes improper data.
Most, if not all of them. Unix time is leap second-ignorant and there are a number of other time sources that likewise handle leap seconds. If you do for some reason, require solar seconds or GPS time, there are other solutions for that. Most likely though, it's your platform that needs to handle the leap seconds and Linux, Mac, BSD, Solaris is more than capable of that, don't know about Windows or other esoteric systems though.
The issue is in human date/time representations and/or bad programming. I've seen many times programmers parsing a MM-DD-YYYY HH:mm:ss string rather than a proper timestamp. I've also seen programmers implement timers even in lower-level languages like C by simply subtracting "$current time" - "$past time" or having a timestamp with a "unique" requirement. If you've ever worked on platforms that do not keep accurate track of time or have no hardware clock such as embedded devices, virtual servers etc, then you know that it's a bad idea.
If you're relying on mm:ss to progress 'properly' during these time events, then you're in trouble. The article gives the example of timers as well which just gives me the heebie-jeebies.
Slow news day? Software dependent on accurate timing should be able to handle such exceptions such as leap seconds, leap years etc. It is a simple test case and is well documented. So if your software fails, you have a bug in your software, which shows you either didn't test or you're simply incompetent.
Also, most if not all languages have libraries that can handle accurate timing very well.
Exactly, it has been rumored that VeriSign actively cooperates with MITM attacks.
VPS has the same problem as shared hosting amongst the majority, especially the 'cheap' VPS. Shared hosting == VPS and Shared Hosting is way more resource-friendly to the hosting company.
A good VPS is nicer to have than a shared host because you're (generally) not locked to a specific operating system or software stack but if you're just doing static or simple PHP content you may be better off with a good shared host than a similar cost VPS.
Does your OS actually do TRIM or is it merely reporting that it supports TRIM? Or does it require a binary to execute TRIM? I've noticed, most devices are simply ignoring TRIM commands. Also, do you actually continuously verify that your data is written and stored correctly? Unless you have ZFS or BTRFS, you most likely are accumulating errors across your data.
I wouldn't say that. There are plenty of stories about random SSD corruption across all platforms. Some platforms (Windows/Mac) simply do not execute TRIM unless the device is whitelisted or a proprietary piece of binary is running on the computer.
TRIM is a kludge at best, a hack to get better performance out of shitty drives. Get a decent SSD and you won't need TRIM.
Bluetooth works pretty well, never had a problem with it. I have 2 controllers, keyboard and a mouse, no latency issues ever. If you're working on a console, latency doesn't matter anyway. You won't get much over 30fps anyway which gives the controller a decent 30ms to respond.
The NSA doesn't have to hide anything, they'll just ask the providers and they'll provide it to them.
Typically Microsoft, it needs a custom plugin ala ActiveX to make it work. Works only on Mac/Windows.
No, federal regulations state that all electronic transactions are covered with a consumer liability of $50, your state may have better protections. Most banks do not even hassle about it, they'd rather keep you as a customer so they will waive the liability. If your bank does not, change banks.
Those were pretty linear as well though. They did have a great number of 'hidden area's', easter eggs and secondary entrances that made it worth playing the game over and over. Some of those things were actually due to system limitations and clever hacks.
It's not whether the government considers you 'served' by a utility, it's whether a person buying the house is. Some/most people are okay with well water and sewage tanks, once they find out the cost involved of getting it taken care of, they'll decide that way.
You cannot sell someone a house without a steady source of electric these days though. You could in the 1920's, perhaps even in the 1950's, but since the 1970's, a house without electric or at least a planned rollout of it would have been a bad investment. Communications (at least phone or cell) is also pretty much a guarantee these days, has been since the 1990's. Available, high-speed Internet is the next thing and within a decade, property areas without it will decline sharply in value.
And regards the government thinking I'm served. I did look it up online, searching for an alternative. They gave me 10 options for high speed internet:
10Gbps - carrier-grade connection (because their fiber runs through my street)
50Mbps - 3 TWC subsidiaries (TWC, TWC Business Class, TWC Enterprise solutions...)
10Mbps - 4 satellite providers
3Mbps - DSL
1Mbps - LocalNet dial-up
Why is it worrisome? Your bank covers any and all malicious charges with a single call, barely any questions asked. Sure, you're out of a card for 2 days, but then you just use another one.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but fresh drinking water is becoming a worldwide problem. We have heated the planet up beyond the point where you can argue that it's a cycle. It will get worse and you will need more water and people will kill to get it. So build the damned plants and you will become the Republic of California in less than a hundred years.
Yes. radiation hardened and MIL spec is used in a lot more places than just space. A lot of medical equipment or even just stuff that needs to last uses those specifications. If you're building something and you want to make sure it works when purchased and lasts for 20 years after that, that's what you buy.
There are a lot smaller designs around. The NR-1 sub had one, the soviets built several and currently there is a resurgence in the design of self-contained miniature reactors with several companies promising 50kW designs that could be easily installed underground (like a pool).
Coal, wind and nuclear are also a bunch more expensive and less accessible. If anyone would sell me a small reactor (e.g. from a sub or whatever), I'd be more than happy to install it in my back yard. But for now, the only thing you can do yourself is solar unless you have a plot of land somewhere outside a city.
Your utility company is still charging you the same amount, regardless whether or not he puts stuff back in the grid.