Yes, air is a terrible insulator however it's easy to MOVE air around which is cheaper than many other fluids. Vacuum is even worse though as there is 'nothing' to transfer heat to or to the 'outside' and the only way to cool any object (or part of an object) in a vacuum (eg. in space) is by radiating the heat away. I think people have tried but so far unsuccessful of doing these precise rotations quickly in a fluid denser than gases (such as oils).
Those middle of nowhere places typically have access to cable and phone, typically fiber as well. The reason: the middle of nowhere has large farms which are typically large businesses that require high speed access to the Internet to do their business. Also, to connect east coast and west coast and north and south, you typically have to cross a LOT of middle-of-nowhere. The ISP's simply sell along the lines they have to put in ANYWAY. Or did you think that east and west coasts of the US had a single line of fiber between them? The entire country is lit up: http://thefoa.org/images/image003.jpg
I put ice javelins in my blender, add some fruit and there you go, a smoothie. So just mount some BlendTec blenders on the bottom of the spacecraft and see if it "will blend". Would be some nice advertisements.
The NSA isn't all that bright. First of all, even if they intercept your traffic, most likely they won't know what to do with it other than store it. They don't have the analysis capabilities they would like. Most if not all crime is not found by NSA wiretaps but by low-tech feet-on-the-ground agents that figure out 'old-school': Follow the money and then wait until the criminal does something stupid.
Second, simply encryption beats their schemes. Off course if you use a signed certificate from a public provider, then they can analyze the traffic because they have the keys. If you make your own CA, keep the keys out of the public nets and frequently renew those keys, you're pretty much golden bar them hacking your CA through some vulnerability (and if that worries you, keep your CA disconnected from the net).
They may have hundreds of billions to follow you around digitally but most likely, if they are really interested in you, they'll put a GPS tracker on your car and have you followed by some goons in a van.
How long does it take to charge a 'regular' car? Mine typically takes about 10 minutes because the pumps in large stations are relatively slow and I need 20 gallons. Most people take about 15 minutes (paying cash inside, getting snacks etc). And that 20 minutes is just for the current technology, I anticipate that within 5 years this can be halved. And 20 minutes would only be on long distance trips (>4 hours). Most trips (groceries, work, family and friends) can be done in 4 hours and then you just charge at home/work/family. And every 4 hours you SHOULD stop for 30 minutes anyway (or at least nature will make sure you do).
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Yes, it's lack of cross-platform support is pretty much the biggest issue here. You require thousands of dollars in Windows license to run a single.NET site. The tools are proprietary and costly and having used Visual Studio, I think Eclipse and even Xcode still beats the pants of off it as far as usability goes..NET is also (or at least should be) a compiled language very similar to Java and it has the same downfalls as Java (if you've ever supported anything-Beans or Tomcat, you know what I'm talking about) - overly complex and way too heavy for websites. Another problem with.NET/IIS stacks is it's lack of isolation from other sites or the hardware, I worked for a hosting company several years ago, shared.NET hosts were a nightmare to support as one site could easily bring the entire application pool down and separating each site in a separate Application Pool gobbled up insane amounts of memory.
Yes there is and it's already on high-end non-robotic cars. There are IR sensors that can see deer/bicycles/pedestrians even if your headlights don't pick it up yet at night or if they are (partially) hidden behind a car. Also, a robotic car can respond in a matter of microseconds, the human brain easily takes up a second to respond in these situations.
And risk getting T-boned? You can only move a few feet forward in an intersection. If the guy behind you isn't paying attention and going full speed, you are still getting rear-ended. Having moved a few feet forward may cause your car to be pushed further into the intersection with cross-traffic.
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Clueless sysadmins (and programmers) do indeed bring a bad rep to PHP but correctly implemented and managed, it can be a great asset. What alternative do you suggest? Node.js? Who runs that and.NET? Really?
That's not how routers work... Routers require physical connections to their ports. The main energy sits in energizing the ports and optimization of routes. Actually switching the traffic on the backplane needs to be done regardless. There are algorithms to reduce energy usage in routers but they are typically theoretical and require a delay to be artificially inserted (basically combining multiple packets for the next 5ms and then bursting them through). Such behavior would actually break a lot of the Internet (streaming, conferencing, timing, NTP...) and actually it has proven to be more expensive (in power consumption on the whole system) to implement such algorithms (extra CPU calculations and caching means at least more CPU and RAM chips plus a bunch of overhead from retransmitted packets).
- Buy 2 switches with 2 computers each - Transfer 100MB in the next week - Transfer 100GB in the next week - Verify the price difference in power and hardware costs
You only purchase volumes of data if you so incline in the market. In the professional market you simply don't, you pay for a guaranteed bit rate. Burst capacity etc. is only possible if you are OVERSELLING your bandwidth (in a sense robbing Peter to pay Paul). Which is fine in the soho market (nobody needs 24/7 10Mbps) but is not really relevant anywhere else on the technical side of things.
You would be mistaken. Dial-up require(d) a lot of hardware in several locations (large modem banks, 18 ports/3U). You can easily fit 192 ports of Ethernet switch in 2U space. Technology advances a lot more quickly.
Actually, if you have ever negotiated peering agreements, you do not pay per TB. Certain data centers do indeed charge per TB over transfer limits but that's merely to increase profits. I have been involved in building data centers and negotiating contracts with the largest peering centers in the world (AMS-IX, NYIIX,...) if you're large enough, you simply pay per physical plug.
AMS-IX at one point upgraded to 10Gbps routers (that was years ago, they currently offer up to 100 or 250Gbps if I am not mistaken). They simply notified us it became available and told us that if we wanted in, we just had to upgrade our equipment and instantly we would be peered at 10Gbps with other providers, off course we had large companies like Microsoft in our data centers which others wanted to peer with.
Peering centers are basically clubs of who's-who in the ISP industry. The largest providers pay a membership fee to participate and get the latest (if they so want), smaller providers pay-per-line, the cost per bandwidth unit is minimal.
But regardless of whether you have dial-up or OC-48, the data centers need to run, the lines need to be laid, the peering needs to be done. It doesn't cost any more to pass 1MB or 1000MB. Bandwidth costs real money, individual data transfers do not, the hardware is agnostic to whom, what and to an extent even where you are transporting bits.
In a datacenter you do not buy per MB. You buy per Mbps or Gbps or even simply to terminate a point-to-point fiber connection (where you are yourself responsible as to what hardware hangs on both sides).
For home and most business connections you can indeed oversell. Even in data centers you can oversell but less than a home connection. Currently ISP's like TWC are overselling 10,000:1. So they are SELLING 10Mbps of bandwidth for each 1 kbps they have peered towards others. This is possible since most consumers only burst data and local caching helps a lot. TWC currently implements DOCSIS, you can easily sell 100Mbps or even 10Gbps to a consumer with minimal hardware investments, plenty of headroom over urban coax, they don't NEED to upgrade their lines in the next 2 decades and the current infrastructure has been in place for the last 3. Fiber has virtually infinite bandwidth, once invested you NEVER need to upgrade it anymore.
I think misinformation in mathematics can be easily detected. Not only is math universal, it's also impossible to launch satellites or go to the moon without it. We would've noticed AND corrected any deliberate diversion of the sciences.
(i) are obligated to license on a royalty-free and non-discriminatory basis, certain IP that would be necessarily infringed by products compliant with the final USB 2.0 interface specification or its adopted supplements
If I'm not mistaken, you cannot buy or resell USB-based hardware if you're not certified. You can buy units like USB-Serial bridges and implement them but you can't solder a connector on yourself. It's basically buying a license to the patents of USB.
No there isn't any such possibility. You can export your data eg. from Excel as a read-only view but you can't export from Office 365 to anything. Office 2010 "is supported now" but it won't be forever, you can't use OpenOffice or similar to access your O365 content.
Adobe right-out says their cloud solution is not backwards compatible with their desktop products, once you convert you're stuck in it. Microsoft says "Although the full Office applications go into 'reduced-functionality mode,' you can still use them to read and print your Office documents."
And do you think it would've made any difference depending on how you voted? No. Romney would've implemented RomneyCare and the IRS, NSA and ATF would've still been corrupt because those institutions transcend administrations and politics. The government in the US has transcended any politics and choices, they are simply there, large, slow and corrupt not belonging to anyone really but typically favoring the things that are equally large, slow and corrupt but feeds them.
We are having a huge shortage of several forms of plutonium and some of the other byproducts of nuclear fission (helium for example) in several of our scientific fields. Most of the cold-war era plants have shut down because we don't want any more weapons nor the risk of clean nuclear energy from the 70s, we'd rather set back medical imaging and energy production back a century than have safe -BUT NUCULAR- (and 50 years more progressive than the current average nuclear plant) energy production in our backyard.
Monkeys are 98.5% genetically identical to humans. Does that mean we're monkeys? Yes we are but we're a different species. All the domestic dogs in the world are the same (Canis Lupus Familiaris) yet you have pugs and you have great danes, those are called breeds or when we don't artificially select for them, subspecies.
You can count the contractors that do proper CAT6A wiring on one hand. You can barely get a contractor to do CAT5E correctly (without using wire nuts to keep 2 ends together), let alone CAT6/CAT6A/CAT7, heck I have a hard enough time buying decent quality copper CAT5. CAT6 cable comes in at ~$300/1000ft, CAT7 at ~$800/1000ft. Decent quality MM fiber comes in at ~$200/1000ft.
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Yes, air is a terrible insulator however it's easy to MOVE air around which is cheaper than many other fluids. Vacuum is even worse though as there is 'nothing' to transfer heat to or to the 'outside' and the only way to cool any object (or part of an object) in a vacuum (eg. in space) is by radiating the heat away. I think people have tried but so far unsuccessful of doing these precise rotations quickly in a fluid denser than gases (such as oils).
Those middle of nowhere places typically have access to cable and phone, typically fiber as well. The reason: the middle of nowhere has large farms which are typically large businesses that require high speed access to the Internet to do their business. Also, to connect east coast and west coast and north and south, you typically have to cross a LOT of middle-of-nowhere. The ISP's simply sell along the lines they have to put in ANYWAY. Or did you think that east and west coasts of the US had a single line of fiber between them? The entire country is lit up: http://thefoa.org/images/image003.jpg
I put ice javelins in my blender, add some fruit and there you go, a smoothie. So just mount some BlendTec blenders on the bottom of the spacecraft and see if it "will blend". Would be some nice advertisements.
The NSA isn't all that bright. First of all, even if they intercept your traffic, most likely they won't know what to do with it other than store it. They don't have the analysis capabilities they would like. Most if not all crime is not found by NSA wiretaps but by low-tech feet-on-the-ground agents that figure out 'old-school': Follow the money and then wait until the criminal does something stupid.
Second, simply encryption beats their schemes. Off course if you use a signed certificate from a public provider, then they can analyze the traffic because they have the keys. If you make your own CA, keep the keys out of the public nets and frequently renew those keys, you're pretty much golden bar them hacking your CA through some vulnerability (and if that worries you, keep your CA disconnected from the net).
They may have hundreds of billions to follow you around digitally but most likely, if they are really interested in you, they'll put a GPS tracker on your car and have you followed by some goons in a van.
How long does it take to charge a 'regular' car? Mine typically takes about 10 minutes because the pumps in large stations are relatively slow and I need 20 gallons. Most people take about 15 minutes (paying cash inside, getting snacks etc). And that 20 minutes is just for the current technology, I anticipate that within 5 years this can be halved. And 20 minutes would only be on long distance trips (>4 hours). Most trips (groceries, work, family and friends) can be done in 4 hours and then you just charge at home/work/family. And every 4 hours you SHOULD stop for 30 minutes anyway (or at least nature will make sure you do).
Yes, it's lack of cross-platform support is pretty much the biggest issue here. You require thousands of dollars in Windows license to run a single .NET site. The tools are proprietary and costly and having used Visual Studio, I think Eclipse and even Xcode still beats the pants of off it as far as usability goes. .NET is also (or at least should be) a compiled language very similar to Java and it has the same downfalls as Java (if you've ever supported anything-Beans or Tomcat, you know what I'm talking about) - overly complex and way too heavy for websites. Another problem with .NET/IIS stacks is it's lack of isolation from other sites or the hardware, I worked for a hosting company several years ago, shared .NET hosts were a nightmare to support as one site could easily bring the entire application pool down and separating each site in a separate Application Pool gobbled up insane amounts of memory.
Yes there is and it's already on high-end non-robotic cars. There are IR sensors that can see deer/bicycles/pedestrians even if your headlights don't pick it up yet at night or if they are (partially) hidden behind a car. Also, a robotic car can respond in a matter of microseconds, the human brain easily takes up a second to respond in these situations.
And risk getting T-boned? You can only move a few feet forward in an intersection. If the guy behind you isn't paying attention and going full speed, you are still getting rear-ended. Having moved a few feet forward may cause your car to be pushed further into the intersection with cross-traffic.
Clueless sysadmins (and programmers) do indeed bring a bad rep to PHP but correctly implemented and managed, it can be a great asset. What alternative do you suggest? Node.js? Who runs that and .NET? Really?
That's not how routers work... Routers require physical connections to their ports. The main energy sits in energizing the ports and optimization of routes. Actually switching the traffic on the backplane needs to be done regardless. There are algorithms to reduce energy usage in routers but they are typically theoretical and require a delay to be artificially inserted (basically combining multiple packets for the next 5ms and then bursting them through). Such behavior would actually break a lot of the Internet (streaming, conferencing, timing, NTP ...) and actually it has proven to be more expensive (in power consumption on the whole system) to implement such algorithms (extra CPU calculations and caching means at least more CPU and RAM chips plus a bunch of overhead from retransmitted packets).
Then do a test yourself:
- Buy 2 switches with 2 computers each
- Transfer 100MB in the next week
- Transfer 100GB in the next week
- Verify the price difference in power and hardware costs
You only purchase volumes of data if you so incline in the market. In the professional market you simply don't, you pay for a guaranteed bit rate. Burst capacity etc. is only possible if you are OVERSELLING your bandwidth (in a sense robbing Peter to pay Paul). Which is fine in the soho market (nobody needs 24/7 10Mbps) but is not really relevant anywhere else on the technical side of things.
You would be mistaken. Dial-up require(d) a lot of hardware in several locations (large modem banks, 18 ports/3U). You can easily fit 192 ports of Ethernet switch in 2U space. Technology advances a lot more quickly.
Actually, if you have ever negotiated peering agreements, you do not pay per TB. Certain data centers do indeed charge per TB over transfer limits but that's merely to increase profits. I have been involved in building data centers and negotiating contracts with the largest peering centers in the world (AMS-IX, NYIIX, ...) if you're large enough, you simply pay per physical plug.
AMS-IX at one point upgraded to 10Gbps routers (that was years ago, they currently offer up to 100 or 250Gbps if I am not mistaken). They simply notified us it became available and told us that if we wanted in, we just had to upgrade our equipment and instantly we would be peered at 10Gbps with other providers, off course we had large companies like Microsoft in our data centers which others wanted to peer with.
Peering centers are basically clubs of who's-who in the ISP industry. The largest providers pay a membership fee to participate and get the latest (if they so want), smaller providers pay-per-line, the cost per bandwidth unit is minimal.
But regardless of whether you have dial-up or OC-48, the data centers need to run, the lines need to be laid, the peering needs to be done. It doesn't cost any more to pass 1MB or 1000MB. Bandwidth costs real money, individual data transfers do not, the hardware is agnostic to whom, what and to an extent even where you are transporting bits.
In a datacenter you do not buy per MB. You buy per Mbps or Gbps or even simply to terminate a point-to-point fiber connection (where you are yourself responsible as to what hardware hangs on both sides).
For home and most business connections you can indeed oversell. Even in data centers you can oversell but less than a home connection. Currently ISP's like TWC are overselling 10,000:1. So they are SELLING 10Mbps of bandwidth for each 1 kbps they have peered towards others. This is possible since most consumers only burst data and local caching helps a lot. TWC currently implements DOCSIS, you can easily sell 100Mbps or even 10Gbps to a consumer with minimal hardware investments, plenty of headroom over urban coax, they don't NEED to upgrade their lines in the next 2 decades and the current infrastructure has been in place for the last 3. Fiber has virtually infinite bandwidth, once invested you NEVER need to upgrade it anymore.
Moore's law is a lower limit. Chips have been increasing faster than Moore's law since the inception of the law.
It has been working on any device for a while now. It's similar to O365, it's browser based but free.
I think misinformation in mathematics can be easily detected. Not only is math universal, it's also impossible to launch satellites or go to the moon without it. We would've noticed AND corrected any deliberate diversion of the sciences.
(i) are obligated to license on a royalty-free and non-discriminatory basis, certain IP that would be necessarily infringed by products compliant with the final USB 2.0 interface specification or its adopted supplements
USB is a closed, patented de-facto standard.
If I'm not mistaken, you cannot buy or resell USB-based hardware if you're not certified. You can buy units like USB-Serial bridges and implement them but you can't solder a connector on yourself. It's basically buying a license to the patents of USB.
No there isn't any such possibility. You can export your data eg. from Excel as a read-only view but you can't export from Office 365 to anything. Office 2010 "is supported now" but it won't be forever, you can't use OpenOffice or similar to access your O365 content.
Adobe right-out says their cloud solution is not backwards compatible with their desktop products, once you convert you're stuck in it. Microsoft says "Although the full Office applications go into 'reduced-functionality mode,' you can still use them to read and print your Office documents."
And do you think it would've made any difference depending on how you voted? No. Romney would've implemented RomneyCare and the IRS, NSA and ATF would've still been corrupt because those institutions transcend administrations and politics. The government in the US has transcended any politics and choices, they are simply there, large, slow and corrupt not belonging to anyone really but typically favoring the things that are equally large, slow and corrupt but feeds them.
Or RomneyCare!
We are having a huge shortage of several forms of plutonium and some of the other byproducts of nuclear fission (helium for example) in several of our scientific fields. Most of the cold-war era plants have shut down because we don't want any more weapons nor the risk of clean nuclear energy from the 70s, we'd rather set back medical imaging and energy production back a century than have safe -BUT NUCULAR- (and 50 years more progressive than the current average nuclear plant) energy production in our backyard.
Monkeys are 98.5% genetically identical to humans. Does that mean we're monkeys? Yes we are but we're a different species. All the domestic dogs in the world are the same (Canis Lupus Familiaris) yet you have pugs and you have great danes, those are called breeds or when we don't artificially select for them, subspecies.
You can count the contractors that do proper CAT6A wiring on one hand. You can barely get a contractor to do CAT5E correctly (without using wire nuts to keep 2 ends together), let alone CAT6/CAT6A/CAT7, heck I have a hard enough time buying decent quality copper CAT5. CAT6 cable comes in at ~$300/1000ft, CAT7 at ~$800/1000ft. Decent quality MM fiber comes in at ~$200/1000ft.