Latency with LTE is drastically reduced than with 3G.
This is because,the 4G LTE standard was drafted to allow it to be more directly shoved into packets. In the 3G world, there's actually a lot of processing time spent turning them into IP packets, and sometimes you actually have to wait for more data/control signals form the 3G side before you finish crafting your packets and send them off.
Have you read the writings of Jared Loughner, the man whom shot congresswoman Giffords? Your first five paragraphs could have been lifted from him verbatim.
The new part that people are up in outrage about is that it requires that you have your papers on you at all times, and it is up to the officer's sole discretion and suspicion as to whether believe that those papers are real or not.
Honestly, if the office just says 'I thought his ID was fake" the law says that there is no possible restitution even though you had a valid driver's license on you. Too bad, you get to spend at least a night cooling your heels in jail with no means afterwards to try and correct the system.
That was already the case before SB1070, I believe in every border state.
So why did Arizona need a new law to enforce one already on the books?
Read the law: It goes a lot further than what you just said. They can arrest you and throw you in jail if you can't prove with papers on you at that exact moment that you're not an illegal immigrant. There's a big difference for getting thrown in jail for not having your driver's license on you, versus them checking your status. The law puts the burden solely on you, the officer doesn't even have to check the system, and if he suspects that your documents may be fake he can still arrest you and throw you in jail just because he thinks you have a fake driver's license.
With whom and where!?!?!?!?!?!? Please, let me know.
Young, fresh out of college, healthy as can be basic healthcare (like what I had when covered by parents) was 3x that.
Maybe you live in one of the states that isn't monopoly provided by one or two providers like mine, where prices are ridiculous. But my state is the norm -- 1, maybe 2 real providers of healthcare with no competition.
It took over a year of investigation to figure out that this was the case with our nuclear power plants. You can't expect individual humans or even small collectives to undertake that type of investigation for most of their services. Especially for a system that's easily gamed --- how do you ensure that all coal plants, mines, etc are being operated safely? You can't without a government, and even they'll miss lots of things, and many safety standards can be beefed up or slimmed down within a day or two of notice. Too easy to game.
BTW, in Albuquerque NM more businesses than not have signs on their doors that they buy all of their electricity, at greater cost, via local wind power. So the market is there, and it's easy to do with solar/wind, etc.
The US government routinely provides loan guarantees for oil refineries, oil fields, wind plants, coal plants, natural gas pipelines, solar plants, etc, etc all of which are routinely profitable.
Strangely, the government views a stable US power grid as something that is important to our society. Who'd have thunk?
A survey of people who either survived, or where saved at the last minute from suicide say it was a last minute decision.
Literally walking home and then saying 'fuck it, I'll jump'
Somehow, I don't think that those that said that were among the terminally ill stuck in nursing home and other assisted care facilities......
Hint, the clue is "Walking home" and "I'll jump". People with advanced Alzheimer's don't really do that....
I have seen a number of Alzheimer's patients in clinics also. It can quite simply be horrific, even in the best of institutions. By nature not being able to do anything other than curl up in the fetal position and defecate on yourself is not my definition of not having "suffered particularly"
I would like the end of my life to be able to set an example of whatever I want, rather than what some external viewer, like yourself, would take from it.
In short, screw you and your view on the world. I'd like to not have it forced on me, thank you very much.
If you remember the story, the implants have an off switch, so often times he just turned them off and everything was dandy. Made it less useful, but was far from ruining his life.
Think of it this way, to encode bits onto the light stream, they're modifying both the amplitude and the phase of the light wave. Think of a nice sine wave, and then think about inverting or reversing the phase at various points to represent the data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_modulation). Then try and calculate what that final frequency of light is. It's not a single frequency anymore. Amplitude modulation is similar, when you change the amplitude of the signal, you can see that while the period stays the same, the slopes and rates of change for the signal change, which also smears it out across bandwidth.
The big driver in bandwidths right now is the encoding schemes. Items like QAM64 use 64 different phase/amplitude combinations to define bits. If you can keep the transmission medium phase and amplitude stable, and have exceedingly good transmitters and receivers, you can keep differentiating more combinations. Keep making the receivers/transmitters cleaner, and creating better fibers and you'll do better. I think that QAM256 is getting pretty standard, and we're looking at hitting QAM4096 and even more (of course, the rate at which you change it makes a difference, but for a given bandwidth that you fill, this is where we're going to be getting a lot of the rate increases).
The chip from the article is ~100x more accurate and consumes 1/10th the power and is similar size of smaller for ~75x the price.
Pretty big leap if you ask me, and I know lots of people that will be looking to utilize these. I expect in the near future that the pricing will drop significantly, since that pricing was just for the initial batch run.
This is one of the real issues. I get that hashes are unique, and how is someone going to get a hash of your file without the actual file? Well, it's tough, but it's not like it's being as seriously protected as a password or anything right now, so it might be an easy vector if someone can figure it out, but there's still bit to go before it's completely insecure.
Uh, how often do you think that alein civilizations are lighting those puppies off? I would expect somewhat rarely, which would make it a very bad candidate for detecting life.
Don't forget that it was the US cutting off oil exports to Japan that really created the situation where Japan either had to give up fighting their wars, or to attack us during WWII.
The military has put in a serious effort into making their bases locally and world-wide self sustainable, including solar plants, wind farms, etc. They recognize that energy is the lifeblood of their forces, and they can't just rely on municipal power or diesel generators, and some bases here in the US are slated to have some of the largest alternative energy build outs in the next decade precisely for this reason: Not doing it would be a threat to national security and autonomy.
This is why engine builders, aircraft manufacturers, and airlines have 100% plunged directly into biofuels.
You look around the industry, and if you can find someone that doesn't have their own biofuels program, you can bet that they're partnered with someone on one of theirs. Everyone in the industry understands that clean, stable, regenerative (aka, price-stable) fuel is the only way to ensure the viability of the industry as a whole in the future.
A large number of poor people access the internet solely through smartphones. It is much, much cheaper to add data to a phone, than it is to get even the most basic of service.
Dropping your landline and use the smartphone for internet is typically the cheapest deal out there, rather than having a line+dialup or line+cable/dsl internet.
Some websites that cater to the poor have numbers of ~50% of the users accessing the data through a smartphone.
Uh, I don't know if you know this, but a person of the same competence as that dude using punch cards in the 60's can knock out probably about 15x more code in a day using a computer.
Don't blame the tools for under-performance, but tools do matter. They do enhance productivity. The fact that I can whip up a little GUI 500 lines of quick code and use it to run a test and get some numbers before lunch is a pretty damn big deal.
Not to mention Level 5 specifically mentions loss of life, with the implicit assumption being civilian/non-worker, but then Level 7 just cares about total amount released. The scale doesn't appear coherent to me, as a layman.
I am broadly in favour of nuclear energy - in principle.
+1
I swear, I really do like nuclear (nearly became a nuclear engineer until I realized that there might not be jobs out there upon graduation). But in practice, corners are always cut, regulators are always lax, and something unexpected always happens. When you're talking 30+ years of operation per plant, it happens.
I'm still very intrigued by some of the new designs, and it seems that they're at least an order of magnitude, if not two orders of magnitude safer. I could get behind them if they also included some extra, extra safety features in case of somethign catastrophic, like say a big vat of Boron something that just breaks loose and floods and entombs the reactor if something totally unexpected starter to happen. I know that knew designs melt down safely, etc, etc but still it would be nice to have a silver bullet if something really crazy were to happen, like sheer neglect, human stupidity, improper assembly, sabotage, and a natural disaster all consipre to cause something bad, you just let that holding wall break and everything gets flooded and stopped.
Amdahl's Argument -- always optimize the slowest part first.
Browsers and javascript have come ridiculously far in the last couple of years. It would seem taht they're no longer the bottleneck, but now the protocol is. I actually doubt that you can squeeze that much more performance gains out of the browser at this point. I have no problem with now optimizing the protocol as long as the results of that process are open.
Plus the sun is an infinite source of energy when you are in space, which should make whatever fuel you are going to use last longer.
Eh, to a certain extent. Look at the Juno spacecraft. It's solar arrays are 650 square feet. Similar in size to those on the ISS, but on a planetary probe. Why so big? Well, they'll produce >15,0000W in Earth orbit, but by the time that the spacecraft hits Jupiter (which, in interstellar terms isn't all that far away), they'll produce ~450W.
That's a big change. You can't really rely on solar power as a main energy source if you're heading very far out. Mars isn't too bad, but if you want to start exploring out further, in some cases solar panels actually cost you because they'll provide so little power, but take up a good chunk of launch weight that could be used for other fuel sources.
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Latency with LTE is drastically reduced than with 3G.
,the 4G LTE standard was drafted to allow it to be more directly shoved into packets. In the 3G world, there's actually a lot of processing time spent turning them into IP packets, and sometimes you actually have to wait for more data/control signals form the 3G side before you finish crafting your packets and send them off.
This is because
Considering that some other person has to change it, and put it on for her, it actually wouldn't be that terribly hard.
TSA is still dumb though.
Have you read the writings of Jared Loughner, the man whom shot congresswoman Giffords? Your first five paragraphs could have been lifted from him verbatim.
The obvious solution is to go to a better school where those classes aren't just blocks to be checked.
If you go to a bad school, yea the GenEd classes are going to be bad....
The new part that people are up in outrage about is that it requires that you have your papers on you at all times, and it is up to the officer's sole discretion and suspicion as to whether believe that those papers are real or not.
Honestly, if the office just says 'I thought his ID was fake" the law says that there is no possible restitution even though you had a valid driver's license on you. Too bad, you get to spend at least a night cooling your heels in jail with no means afterwards to try and correct the system.
That was already the case before SB1070, I believe in every border state.
So why did Arizona need a new law to enforce one already on the books?
Read the law: It goes a lot further than what you just said. They can arrest you and throw you in jail if you can't prove with papers on you at that exact moment that you're not an illegal immigrant. There's a big difference for getting thrown in jail for not having your driver's license on you, versus them checking your status. The law puts the burden solely on you, the officer doesn't even have to check the system, and if he suspects that your documents may be fake he can still arrest you and throw you in jail just because he thinks you have a fake driver's license.
With whom and where!?!?!?!?!?!? Please, let me know.
Young, fresh out of college, healthy as can be basic healthcare (like what I had when covered by parents) was 3x that.
Maybe you live in one of the states that isn't monopoly provided by one or two providers like mine, where prices are ridiculous. But my state is the norm -- 1, maybe 2 real providers of healthcare with no competition.
It took over a year of investigation to figure out that this was the case with our nuclear power plants. You can't expect individual humans or even small collectives to undertake that type of investigation for most of their services. Especially for a system that's easily gamed --- how do you ensure that all coal plants, mines, etc are being operated safely? You can't without a government, and even they'll miss lots of things, and many safety standards can be beefed up or slimmed down within a day or two of notice. Too easy to game.
BTW, in Albuquerque NM more businesses than not have signs on their doors that they buy all of their electricity, at greater cost, via local wind power. So the market is there, and it's easy to do with solar/wind, etc.
The US government routinely provides loan guarantees for oil refineries, oil fields, wind plants, coal plants, natural gas pipelines, solar plants, etc, etc all of which are routinely profitable.
Strangely, the government views a stable US power grid as something that is important to our society. Who'd have thunk?
That's why Pratchett wants to make the decision soon, while he still is of full rational mind and body.
A survey of people who either survived, or where saved at the last minute from suicide say it was a last minute decision. Literally walking home and then saying 'fuck it, I'll jump'
Somehow, I don't think that those that said that were among the terminally ill stuck in nursing home and other assisted care facilities......
Hint, the clue is "Walking home" and "I'll jump". People with advanced Alzheimer's don't really do that....
I have seen a number of Alzheimer's patients in clinics also. It can quite simply be horrific, even in the best of institutions. By nature not being able to do anything other than curl up in the fetal position and defecate on yourself is not my definition of not having "suffered particularly"
I would like the end of my life to be able to set an example of whatever I want, rather than what some external viewer, like yourself, would take from it.
In short, screw you and your view on the world. I'd like to not have it forced on me, thank you very much.
If you remember the story, the implants have an off switch, so often times he just turned them off and everything was dandy. Made it less useful, but was far from ruining his life.
Pretty much. It's a "god said" thing.
Think of it this way, to encode bits onto the light stream, they're modifying both the amplitude and the phase of the light wave. Think of a nice sine wave, and then think about inverting or reversing the phase at various points to represent the data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_modulation). Then try and calculate what that final frequency of light is. It's not a single frequency anymore. Amplitude modulation is similar, when you change the amplitude of the signal, you can see that while the period stays the same, the slopes and rates of change for the signal change, which also smears it out across bandwidth.
The big driver in bandwidths right now is the encoding schemes. Items like QAM64 use 64 different phase/amplitude combinations to define bits. If you can keep the transmission medium phase and amplitude stable, and have exceedingly good transmitters and receivers, you can keep differentiating more combinations. Keep making the receivers/transmitters cleaner, and creating better fibers and you'll do better. I think that QAM256 is getting pretty standard, and we're looking at hitting QAM4096 and even more (of course, the rate at which you change it makes a difference, but for a given bandwidth that you fill, this is where we're going to be getting a lot of the rate increases).
The chip from the article is ~100x more accurate and consumes 1/10th the power and is similar size of smaller for ~75x the price.
Pretty big leap if you ask me, and I know lots of people that will be looking to utilize these. I expect in the near future that the pricing will drop significantly, since that pricing was just for the initial batch run.
+1
This is one of the real issues. I get that hashes are unique, and how is someone going to get a hash of your file without the actual file? Well, it's tough, but it's not like it's being as seriously protected as a password or anything right now, so it might be an easy vector if someone can figure it out, but there's still bit to go before it's completely insecure.
Uh, how often do you think that alein civilizations are lighting those puppies off? I would expect somewhat rarely, which would make it a very bad candidate for detecting life.
Exactly.
Don't forget that it was the US cutting off oil exports to Japan that really created the situation where Japan either had to give up fighting their wars, or to attack us during WWII.
The military has put in a serious effort into making their bases locally and world-wide self sustainable, including solar plants, wind farms, etc. They recognize that energy is the lifeblood of their forces, and they can't just rely on municipal power or diesel generators, and some bases here in the US are slated to have some of the largest alternative energy build outs in the next decade precisely for this reason: Not doing it would be a threat to national security and autonomy.
This is why engine builders, aircraft manufacturers, and airlines have 100% plunged directly into biofuels.
You look around the industry, and if you can find someone that doesn't have their own biofuels program, you can bet that they're partnered with someone on one of theirs. Everyone in the industry understands that clean, stable, regenerative (aka, price-stable) fuel is the only way to ensure the viability of the industry as a whole in the future.
A large number of poor people access the internet solely through smartphones. It is much, much cheaper to add data to a phone, than it is to get even the most basic of service.
Dropping your landline and use the smartphone for internet is typically the cheapest deal out there, rather than having a line+dialup or line+cable/dsl internet.
Some websites that cater to the poor have numbers of ~50% of the users accessing the data through a smartphone.
Uh, I don't know if you know this, but a person of the same competence as that dude using punch cards in the 60's can knock out probably about 15x more code in a day using a computer.
Don't blame the tools for under-performance, but tools do matter. They do enhance productivity. The fact that I can whip up a little GUI 500 lines of quick code and use it to run a test and get some numbers before lunch is a pretty damn big deal.
Not to mention Level 5 specifically mentions loss of life, with the implicit assumption being civilian/non-worker, but then Level 7 just cares about total amount released. The scale doesn't appear coherent to me, as a layman.
I am broadly in favour of nuclear energy - in principle.
+1
I swear, I really do like nuclear (nearly became a nuclear engineer until I realized that there might not be jobs out there upon graduation). But in practice, corners are always cut, regulators are always lax, and something unexpected always happens. When you're talking 30+ years of operation per plant, it happens.
I'm still very intrigued by some of the new designs, and it seems that they're at least an order of magnitude, if not two orders of magnitude safer. I could get behind them if they also included some extra, extra safety features in case of somethign catastrophic, like say a big vat of Boron something that just breaks loose and floods and entombs the reactor if something totally unexpected starter to happen. I know that knew designs melt down safely, etc, etc but still it would be nice to have a silver bullet if something really crazy were to happen, like sheer neglect, human stupidity, improper assembly, sabotage, and a natural disaster all consipre to cause something bad, you just let that holding wall break and everything gets flooded and stopped.
Amdahl's Argument -- always optimize the slowest part first.
Browsers and javascript have come ridiculously far in the last couple of years. It would seem taht they're no longer the bottleneck, but now the protocol is. I actually doubt that you can squeeze that much more performance gains out of the browser at this point. I have no problem with now optimizing the protocol as long as the results of that process are open.
Plus the sun is an infinite source of energy when you are in space, which should make whatever fuel you are going to use last longer.
Eh, to a certain extent. Look at the Juno spacecraft. It's solar arrays are 650 square feet. Similar in size to those on the ISS, but on a planetary probe. Why so big? Well, they'll produce >15,0000W in Earth orbit, but by the time that the spacecraft hits Jupiter (which, in interstellar terms isn't all that far away), they'll produce ~450W.
That's a big change. You can't really rely on solar power as a main energy source if you're heading very far out. Mars isn't too bad, but if you want to start exploring out further, in some cases solar panels actually cost you because they'll provide so little power, but take up a good chunk of launch weight that could be used for other fuel sources.