Problem here in the states is that the tax payers already paid for better infrastructure but we've yet to see the results, and now they're asking for more money!
Which taxpayer funded infrastructure are you referring to?
I am not aware of any funding for the specific goal of providing bandwidth to cellular base stations.
The difficulty is that the banks won't lend to improve infrastructure, as nobody is sure where the demand will go.
My experience in the USA is that carriers do continuously improve infrastructure, but not fast enough to keep a lot of customers satisfied.
I guessed that there wasn't enough bandwidth to the cell tower, and the iPhone was getting prioritised.
This seems unlikely to me. I would only expect negative impact on network performance if the network was already close to capacity (with active voice/data communication). If that was the case, you would definitely notice failures more often than just whenever an iPhone user visited. And (at least on 3G) I'd expect data rates to be reduced before voice calls were dropped. The iPhone explanation makes a cute anecdote, but it doesn't really seem likely.
The thing is, Ubuntu server isn't trying to necessarily capture the marketshare of "serious" servers because those are already well-entrenched with contracts but rather competing with offerings like Windows Home Server.
Nuh uh. Ubuntu Server is certainly marketed towards enterprises, and not just very small ones. Canonical advertises its support for virtualization, cloud computing, and integration with enterprise authentication systems. Let's look at the Ubuntu Server web page:
"Ubuntu Server mixes effortlessly with Ubuntu, Windows or Mac OS environments. All clients can share authentication, swap files and access services, while Open LDAP, Likewise-Open and PAM authentication come as standard."
Do home users care about LDAP or PAM?
Virtualise your servers with Ubuntu Server and KVM. Use a secure, lean version of Ubuntu as a guest operating system for your application and create virtual machine images in minutes. KVM, Xen, VMWare and LXC are all supported.
Do home users create applications using Ubuntu as a base to run on virtualized environments? Do home users runs servers with virtualization?
Build flexible computing environments in your own infrastructure with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) or deploy to Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu Server Edition images.
Do home users create their own Enterprise Cloud or deploy applications to expensive commercial hosting systems?
If they would just put out a windows AMD64 bit kvm driver, I would buy a half a dozen support contracts that day. Instead I am stuck with RHEL5 running a kernel older than dirt.
RHEL5 kernel is hardly old. It has thousands of patches.
From my experience, the distro that gives less back to the community is Suse.
Novell is one of the biggest corporate contributors (of actual code) to open-soruce projects like GNOME and the Linux kernel. They are behind probably only behind Red Hat in total contributions.
I have no interest in Ping, and I don't use it. iTunes 10 continues to work even though I don't use the feature.
In the past year or two of iTunes releases, it's only gotten faster for me. I also noticed that the download for iTunes 10 for Mac OS X is 86 MB, whereas the previous version (9.2.1) was 106 MB.
Huh? Are you kidding? No, cars are not more efficient today. Since the mid-80s, average fuel economy of cars in the united states has increased by about 1 mpg. Is 1 mpg what you call "a lot"?
Even within the last decade, cars have been getting more efficient and more powerful while the engines remain the same size or even get bigger - not to mention safer and more reliable.
Even if you're using no fuel, the motor breaking is wasting momentum (energy)
but not fuel, which is what we are discussing.
Just paying attention while you're driving is more important than safety features imo.
that doesn't even make sense. Many safety features exist to provide better control of the vehicle - they are meaningless if the driver isn't controlling the vehicle.
At 0 throttle coasting in gear, you're wasting energy spinning the motor
Not if the ECU cuts off fuel, as I mentioned.
my car doesn't have power assisted brakes or steering
I'm sorry to hear that.
most cars with power assist are pretty drivable with the motor off if you pay attention:)
that's fine for old or cheap vehicles, but I mentioned more than just power steering and braking. There's also ABS and ESC and possibly other safety features that only operate as intended while the vehicle is on.
Plenty of modern electronic fuel injected vehicles get infinite MPG for periods of time, without having to employ dangerous shenanigans like shutting off the engine (and consequently shutting off safety systems and power control). They simply stop injecting fuel when the vehicle is moving sufficiently fast while in gear and without any accelerator input.
For GSM, it doesn't make as much difference as people think. Outside the major centers, the providers share the same cells, and whether they identify as an AT&T, Verizon or T-Mobile signal depends on what your preferred provider is.
Not in my market - AT&T and T-Mobile may sometimes use the same towers, but this is because they are both leasing space form someone else. (AT&T, for example, has some old microwave repeater towers that last I checked only had AT&T GSM/WCDMA cells.)
T-Mobile have filled in the gaps in rural coverage in recent years, but their WCDMA footprint is still limited to cities and highways.
The amount of bandwidth is a big deal too. T-Mobile only has a small amount of 1900 MHz spectrum here compared to AT&T, so I imagine they have to use lower power levels on their GSM network than AT&T.
I find that Google Maps is bad at suggesting alternate routes or even picking the best route it finds. For example, its first routing choice for me to get to work is one minute longer than its second choice according to its own estimates. In reality, its first choice takes about five minutes longer.
really? I grew up in a rural area, and I spent hours in a car commuting because things were so far away... and I question this. There were two possible routes south from my hometown, one was about 150km to the closest big down, the other route was about 250km to the same place.
Most routing software I've used optimizes for travel time, not distance. The shortest route between two places I go to is about 40 miles and should take about 2 hours, but the quickest route is 45 miles and takes less than an hour.
The distinction can be important in rural areas too, especially ones where expressways are built to avoid mountains or towns. Routes on an expressway might be twice as long as the shortest/direct route, but can still be quicker if the direct route has lower safe speeds or has roads that are likely to be closed in case of bad weather.
And if you have to take a detour, the GPS will select a new route for you.
I mean the ability to buy ANY game and play it without it looking terrible or being at a competitive disadvantage. With consoles this is true out of the box.
Games on consoles look terrible. While the Xbox 360 and PS3 are both capable of outputting/scaling to 1080p60, most games are rendered at a much lower resolution and sometimes at a lower framerate. I have a video card that was $90 when I bought it in 2008, and it outperforms the Xbox 360 at playing the same games.
Those are the bottom 5 least wasteful cities as selected by a company who makes reusable water bottles, using a survey of 3750 people total. It rates cities on criteria such as
"Never driving their car for trips that are less than one mile from home"
"Using reusable bottles in place of single-serve bottles of water/soda/other beverages"
The problem with "programming for multiple cores/CPUs/threads" is that it is done in very different ways between languages, operating systems, and APIs.
Really?
Most modern operating systems implement POSIX threads, or are close enough that POSIX threads can be implemented on top of a native threading mechanism. The concept of independently scheduled threads with a shared memory space can only be implemented in so many ways, and when someone understands these concepts well, everything looks rather similar.
It seems that claiming things are radically different due to superficial differences is fairly common today in computer science.
No amount of schooling can fully prepare you for this diversity.
Of course not, if you're the kind of person who can't grasp the concepts.
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Which taxpayer funded infrastructure are you referring to?
I am not aware of any funding for the specific goal of providing bandwidth to cellular base stations.
My experience in the USA is that carriers do continuously improve infrastructure, but not fast enough to keep a lot of customers satisfied.
This seems unlikely to me. I would only expect negative impact on network performance if the network was already close to capacity (with active voice/data communication). If that was the case, you would definitely notice failures more often than just whenever an iPhone user visited. And (at least on 3G) I'd expect data rates to be reduced before voice calls were dropped. The iPhone explanation makes a cute anecdote, but it doesn't really seem likely.
Nuh uh. Ubuntu Server is certainly marketed towards enterprises, and not just very small ones. Canonical advertises its support for virtualization, cloud computing, and integration with enterprise authentication systems.
Let's look at the Ubuntu Server web page:
Do home users care about LDAP or PAM?
Do home users create applications using Ubuntu as a base to run on virtualized environments? Do home users runs servers with virtualization?
Do home users create their own Enterprise Cloud or deploy applications to expensive commercial hosting systems?
RHEL5 kernel is hardly old. It has thousands of patches.
Novell is one of the biggest corporate contributors (of actual code) to open-soruce projects like GNOME and the Linux kernel. They are behind probably only behind Red Hat in total contributions.
I have no interest in Ping, and I don't use it. iTunes 10 continues to work even though I don't use the feature.
In the past year or two of iTunes releases, it's only gotten faster for me. I also noticed that the download for iTunes 10 for Mac OS X is 86 MB, whereas the previous version (9.2.1) was 106 MB.
Even within the last decade, cars have been getting more efficient and more powerful while the engines remain the same size or even get bigger - not to mention safer and more reliable.
but not fuel, which is what we are discussing.
that doesn't even make sense. Many safety features exist to provide better control of the vehicle - they are meaningless if the driver isn't controlling the vehicle.
Not if the ECU cuts off fuel, as I mentioned.
I'm sorry to hear that.
that's fine for old or cheap vehicles, but I mentioned more than just power steering and braking. There's also ABS and ESC and possibly other safety features that only operate as intended while the vehicle is on.
Some newer automatic transmission vehicles are also programmed to shift in such a way to maximize the fuel cutoff.
Plenty of modern electronic fuel injected vehicles get infinite MPG for periods of time, without having to employ dangerous shenanigans like shutting off the engine (and consequently shutting off safety systems and power control). They simply stop injecting fuel when the vehicle is moving sufficiently fast while in gear and without any accelerator input.
C++ is not well suited to anything.
Not in my market - AT&T and T-Mobile may sometimes use the same towers, but this is because they are both leasing space form someone else. (AT&T, for example, has some old microwave repeater towers that last I checked only had AT&T GSM/WCDMA cells.)
T-Mobile have filled in the gaps in rural coverage in recent years, but their WCDMA footprint is still limited to cities and highways.
The amount of bandwidth is a big deal too. T-Mobile only has a small amount of 1900 MHz spectrum here compared to AT&T, so I imagine they have to use lower power levels on their GSM network than AT&T.
3G is referring to UMTS here.
My phone that gets 3G service in the US will get 3G service in most countries - European countries included. This is true for many AT&T phones.
I find that Google Maps is bad at suggesting alternate routes or even picking the best route it finds. For example, its first routing choice for me to get to work is one minute longer than its second choice according to its own estimates. In reality, its first choice takes about five minutes longer.
Most routing software I've used optimizes for travel time, not distance.
The shortest route between two places I go to is about 40 miles and should take about 2 hours, but the quickest route is 45 miles and takes less than an hour.
The distinction can be important in rural areas too, especially ones where expressways are built to avoid mountains or towns. Routes on an expressway might be twice as long as the shortest/direct route, but can still be quicker if the direct route has lower safe speeds or has roads that are likely to be closed in case of bad weather.
And if you have to take a detour, the GPS will select a new route for you.
Games on consoles look terrible. While the Xbox 360 and PS3 are both capable of outputting/scaling to 1080p60, most games are rendered at a much lower resolution and sometimes at a lower framerate.
I have a video card that was $90 when I bought it in 2008, and it outperforms the Xbox 360 at playing the same games.
The medical industry has not moved out of Cleveland.
Cleveland Clinic is the largest employer.
Those are the bottom 5 least wasteful cities as selected by a company who makes reusable water bottles, using a survey of 3750 people total.
It rates cities on criteria such as
Really?
Most modern operating systems implement POSIX threads, or are close enough that POSIX threads can be implemented on top of a native threading mechanism. The concept of independently scheduled threads with a shared memory space can only be implemented in so many ways, and when someone understands these concepts well, everything looks rather similar.
It seems that claiming things are radically different due to superficial differences is fairly common today in computer science.
Of course not, if you're the kind of person who can't grasp the concepts.
The major operators use 256QAM.
No. MPEG2 is still used by the major US cable system operators.
The most dangerous foods available are those improperly stored/transported/cooked after being grown or manufactured.
Stop making shit up.
Now you have four problems. Could you Do It Wrong in any more ways?
Holy shit, that post looks familiar.