The planned Comcast 160 Mbps bandwidth rollout has been scaled back, according to Reuters Tech - it's now $160 per month for 60 MBps and $60 per month for Mps GB, although existing 6-8 GB customers will be upgraded to 10-12 GB under their current plans.
As of... yesterday.
No word on what the monthly caps will be however - perhaps they won't change those and you'll use up your monthly cap in a few minutes.
Actually, if you were to go along the I-5 corridor from Vancouver BC down to San Diego CA, you have more density than you would along the line they're talking about for Japan.
Glad someone did the math to show that the float cushion energy use is less than the energy gain due to reduced friction. But is this as true at 500 kph as it is at more typical 300 to 350 kph speeds for bullet trains?
Air becomes more of a wall at such speeds, although some of that might be obviated by a pointier nose cone design and the length of the train (less resistance per meter if the length is more).
The problem is that all the energy studies I've seen (which anyone at a university or college can read) seem to show the highest bang-for-the-buck is for wind turbines being used to crack water (H20) into fuel cells to power large vehicles, especially trains (where a fuel cell powerplant works well) and large tractor trailers (less efficient).
Carbon sequestration and recycling, while important long-term goals, won't be able to do anything before 2050, by which time we're more likely to have fusion power.
Stick with what works - tidal, geothermal, wind, solar, algae biofuel - not with things that are difficult to deliver in a timespan longer than your entire working lifetime.
No, scientists do not get paid for the papers they write by the journals. Their reputation though is almost solely built upon their published work. Also, universities often give a bonus if a certain number of publications is written during a year. Same with government grants.
And you don't get tenure if you don't have a good publishing record for your papers, with yourself as a lead for a few, and co-author for some of your earlier work.
One of the major problems with scientific journals and the peer review process is that we have a positive bias for publication, in that you are much more likely to be published if your study has positive results than if it has - equally valid so as not to have everybody else keep doing the same thing and failing - negative results.
Half of getting into Science and Nature is politics, not science.
And just TRY to get something published about improved methodology in statistics for genetics studies... hah! You have to publish in obscure journals or start your own self-publishing annual or biannual workshop and then attach it to a positive study to get it out there.
That also happened for domestic mail - someone would be riding to the next town and you'd pay them to take a letter with you. Usually the recipient would tip you, depending on local customs.
But hey, I'm just playing Animal Crossing Adventure with all my friends and My Sims Adventure - and we're all Wii avatars.
Ignore the Wii, won't you - just because we don't carry awesome high-tech weaponry and like fey sprites to represent ourselves, some with fancy foils and epees and wearing androgynous uniform-like outfits....
actually, before that the sender paid someone to deliver it when they travelled to a port. You would give a seafarer a few coins and a letter and they would drop it off when they got to that port.
So it was paid by the sender. Sometimes the person delivering would be paid as well (a courier), or tipped handsomely, mind you.
Seriously, for those of us who have him deny reality and post things to us, it would be nice to be able to disallow specific individuals from being able to reply to a thread more than once, since they never get the hint that 99.9 percent of all scientists think he's wrong, and he should just STFU.
Hmmm, how about call it the STFU thread block - make it an option available to Journal authors or Post authors when someone just won't take the hint and stop posting replies that ignore reality.
Or, to be even more Crystal, call it a PudgeBlock.
1. Up to half of the US has electricity that comes from carbon-neutral or low-impact US-sourced energy supplies - hydroelectric (Northwest and Northeast), nuclear fission (ignoring the mining process), solar, tidal, and geothermal - all of which can be stored in batteries during low-demand times for more efficient energy usage.
2. The largest percentage of vehicles on the road will be USED cars, especially in a recession, and the most efficient thing to do is convert existing low-mpg vehicles in areas with cheap electricity (e.g. Pacific NW) and high gasoline/diesel prices - especially corporate vehicles and commuter vehicles which spend most of the day resting in one to three locations.
3. Every dollar not shipped overseas to the Bush/binLaden terrorists in Saudi Arabia and other mideastern countries is a dollar spent in America rebuilding the nation, and cutting al-Qaeda's supply lines of money and troops from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
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The planned Comcast 160 Mbps bandwidth rollout has been scaled back, according to Reuters Tech - it's now $160 per month for 60 MBps and $60 per month for Mps GB, although existing 6-8 GB customers will be upgraded to 10-12 GB under their current plans.
As of ... yesterday.
No word on what the monthly caps will be however - perhaps they won't change those and you'll use up your monthly cap in a few minutes.
that's at the ends of the lines.
I was referring to the I-5 corridor - with Vancouver BC, Seattle WA, Portland OR, San Jose CA, Los Angeles CA, San Diego CA ...
Actually, if you were to go along the I-5 corridor from Vancouver BC down to San Diego CA, you have more density than you would along the line they're talking about for Japan.
Glad someone did the math to show that the float cushion energy use is less than the energy gain due to reduced friction. But is this as true at 500 kph as it is at more typical 300 to 350 kph speeds for bullet trains?
Air becomes more of a wall at such speeds, although some of that might be obviated by a pointier nose cone design and the length of the train (less resistance per meter if the length is more).
I used to ride on SkyTrain in Vancouver BC, which is maglev, but only enough to provide propulsion, not a float cushion.
Is the lift and reduced friction worth the extra energy to actually levitate it?
And, if we put the new invisibility cloaks on these ... won't they kill stray cows and small boys and girls trying to flatten pennies on the tracks?
(meanwhile in the US, we get zilch)
E3 is so last century.
Seriously, they pulled a PS3.
You know, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that this was the same company as Diebold.
Oh, wait, it is ...
I remember why Cluster became Cluster II, actually, and have only my robotics corporation to blame.
I didn't say it was the only choice, the reality is we need to invest in BUILDING all the other choices.
The problem is that all the energy studies I've seen (which anyone at a university or college can read) seem to show the highest bang-for-the-buck is for wind turbines being used to crack water (H20) into fuel cells to power large vehicles, especially trains (where a fuel cell powerplant works well) and large tractor trailers (less efficient).
Carbon sequestration and recycling, while important long-term goals, won't be able to do anything before 2050, by which time we're more likely to have fusion power.
Stick with what works - tidal, geothermal, wind, solar, algae biofuel - not with things that are difficult to deliver in a timespan longer than your entire working lifetime.
No, scientists do not get paid for the papers they write by the journals. Their reputation though is almost solely built upon their published work. Also, universities often give a bonus if a certain number of publications is written during a year. Same with government grants.
And you don't get tenure if you don't have a good publishing record for your papers, with yourself as a lead for a few, and co-author for some of your earlier work.
After all, math is hard.
One of the major problems with scientific journals and the peer review process is that we have a positive bias for publication, in that you are much more likely to be published if your study has positive results than if it has - equally valid so as not to have everybody else keep doing the same thing and failing - negative results.
Half of getting into Science and Nature is politics, not science.
And just TRY to get something published about improved methodology in statistics for genetics studies ... hah! You have to publish in obscure journals or start your own self-publishing annual or biannual workshop and then attach it to a positive study to get it out there.
That also happened for domestic mail - someone would be riding to the next town and you'd pay them to take a letter with you. Usually the recipient would tip you, depending on local customs.
Back when I was in the Army with a clearance, I got to visit the shack in Yakima where all overseas phone calls got screened in.
We always got the whole feed, and then selected, and it's always been way more open than the legislators ever admitted in public.
Silly rabbit, privacy's for people not in the USA. Welcome to Soviet Amerika!
But hey, I'm just playing Animal Crossing Adventure with all my friends and My Sims Adventure - and we're all Wii avatars.
Ignore the Wii, won't you - just because we don't carry awesome high-tech weaponry and like fey sprites to represent ourselves, some with fancy foils and epees and wearing androgynous uniform-like outfits ....
We still exist.
When you prick us, do we not moan and cry?
actually, before that the sender paid someone to deliver it when they travelled to a port. You would give a seafarer a few coins and a letter and they would drop it off when they got to that port.
So it was paid by the sender. Sometimes the person delivering would be paid as well (a courier), or tipped handsomely, mind you.
Seriously, for those of us who have him deny reality and post things to us, it would be nice to be able to disallow specific individuals from being able to reply to a thread more than once, since they never get the hint that 99.9 percent of all scientists think he's wrong, and he should just STFU.
Hmmm, how about call it the STFU thread block - make it an option available to Journal authors or Post authors when someone just won't take the hint and stop posting replies that ignore reality.
Or, to be even more Crystal, call it a PudgeBlock.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion - once.
he forgets i know the root password and thinks i just have a user account ...
nah, i just look for the encrypted image files - easy to find the pr0n, cause the files are big.
And twice as annoying.
Excuse me while I install this on my son's laptop ... without him knowing.
At least that's what my barbie says to me ...
Why do they hate sorority sisters so very very much!
(mind you, i'll get less myspace invites ...)
First, send in your permanent absentee ballot early, before all the lies leak out.
Second, use your key to hack the Diebold machine (renamed to protect the guilty) and change all the votes for McSame to Bob Barr.
Third, watch the media go nuts!
And, if so, when can I get my frostsaber and Nightelf Mohawk Barbarian?
After all, with the incompetents they have now, it would make just as much sense.
Copyrights should revert to the period specified in the US Constitution and the original Berne Conventions, not the farces in use today.
(reminds me of my trademark for All Of The Above (tm))
1. Up to half of the US has electricity that comes from carbon-neutral or low-impact US-sourced energy supplies - hydroelectric (Northwest and Northeast), nuclear fission (ignoring the mining process), solar, tidal, and geothermal - all of which can be stored in batteries during low-demand times for more efficient energy usage.
2. The largest percentage of vehicles on the road will be USED cars, especially in a recession, and the most efficient thing to do is convert existing low-mpg vehicles in areas with cheap electricity (e.g. Pacific NW) and high gasoline/diesel prices - especially corporate vehicles and commuter vehicles which spend most of the day resting in one to three locations.
3. Every dollar not shipped overseas to the Bush/binLaden terrorists in Saudi Arabia and other mideastern countries is a dollar spent in America rebuilding the nation, and cutting al-Qaeda's supply lines of money and troops from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
Sweet.