Yeah, that's a good angle. We could even go further and mention the amount of money the telcos could recoup from recycling the copper lines they remove from the poles. Most predictions say around 33 years until there is no minable copper left! Silica is the raw material for fiber cables, and we got plenty of sand in the world.
So therefore, replacing those big fat overhead multi pair copper lines with a small optical fiber is good for the environment.
If you effectively duct the heat pushed out by the rack units to the outside, your requirement to cool down the hot exhausted air in the room diminishes quite a lot.
Ok, not usually possible with computers, but I used to do that for racks of audio power amplifiers used in a permanent install. They drew air in from the front of the racks and blew out the back which was fanned outside, thus the room didn't require much to keep it cool.
I'd also like to add that many of the early (late eighties time frame) CD releases were unmodified master tapes that were meant for record. Mastering to CD and record are two different animals. It is absolutely necessary to limit peaks when cutting a record master, which isn't for "artistic" purposes as you don't want cheapy players' needles launching out of the groove due to peaks that are beyond its capabilities. Thankfully, recording and mastering engineers got hip to digital, but many lost there perspective early on regarding how dBFS and the VU scale don't relate. Many people tend to think you must set your levels so that you reach digital full-bit.
This is a crazy, CRAZY concept that's been perpetuated for 20 years!
When digital machines first came out for professional use, 16-bit at 44.1KHz was the standard setting. Even companies like Apogee made retrofit D/A/D converter cards for the Sony PCM3324 if you wanted improved performance (for a hefty price tag). Now a days, 24-bit at 96K seems nominal.
Where the joke is regards the noise floor. At 16/44.1 you have about 30dB greater SNR compared to a 2" 24-track recorder operating at 30ips. Yet most everyone pushes the noise floor below the gain structure of their consoles when digital was supposed to increase your headroom.
For me, if I see my peak meters move at all, I hit record. dBFS is supposed to be at the clipping level of your audio console (about 22dB above nominal), not a hair above your operating level:)
I won't even mention loudness war compression.. Engineers need to know how to set levels first.
I fully agree. For anyone to infringe on their copywrite, their HTML should be legal HTML. What court could hold up any claim for stealing something that wasn't what it claimed to be? 57 errors past the first issue!
Just take any of the <description> entries and validate them as valid HTML 4.01 and you'll see that google make the same mistakes each and every time with things like a closing </b> crosses an opening <font> and no closing </tr> and </td> before the closing </table>, etc. What perverse and simple errors they have in their main template. How can they overlook this?
Isn't it silly that that local govts sign franchise deals that lock-in their constituents to only a single provider? This has been SOP since the beginning of cable, but the cable COs then own the lines they put in. What if the last mile line was done in darkfibre that is shared by any service provider hooking into the front of it (vid/inet/phone)? You hate Cox, switch to Comcast.. WOW, you can't do that if Cox strung the lines!
zappepcs has it right. I am 100% for the success of municipal fiber networks. Financial payback comes from renting access to the service providers, which results in competition for the end user. Slap on some wifi access points on some poles where the fiber trunks are located, and poof, wifi, too. The end user has choices and price per Mb goes way down to Japan/Korea pricing (Why aren't you jealous?). The USA still has the highest $ per Mb of broadband in the world for no good reason except that us silly consumers expect the private sector to solve it.
Like bridge and road construction, its up to the local communities to solve their "last mile" problem.
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and nmake. Who needs fancy syntax coloring. Step debuggers are for weenies who can't manage to use printf()
It'll crash every other browser at random times with strange exception errors, will take 10 minutes to load a page, I'm just so for it..
Yeah, that's a good angle. We could even go further and mention the amount of money the telcos could recoup from recycling the copper lines they remove from the poles. Most predictions say around 33 years until there is no minable copper left! Silica is the raw material for fiber cables, and we got plenty of sand in the world.
So therefore, replacing those big fat overhead multi pair copper lines with a small optical fiber is good for the environment.
We all want FTTH (fiber to the home). Just do it already.
BUT WHERE ARE THE PONIES!!??
I want my pink ponies!
If you effectively duct the heat pushed out by the rack units to the outside, your requirement to cool down the hot exhausted air in the room diminishes quite a lot.
Ok, not usually possible with computers, but I used to do that for racks of audio power amplifiers used in a permanent install. They drew air in from the front of the racks and blew out the back which was fanned outside, thus the room didn't require much to keep it cool.
I liked the carrier pigeon reference. Also known as IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC). Good call.
General practitioners know nothing about everything while specialists know everything about nothing.
Given the current executive branch, they sure are trying..
advertising hidden as a news article. Gee, tanks editors.
I'd also like to add that many of the early (late eighties time frame) CD releases were unmodified master tapes that were meant for record. Mastering to CD and record are two different animals. It is absolutely necessary to limit peaks when cutting a record master, which isn't for "artistic" purposes as you don't want cheapy players' needles launching out of the groove due to peaks that are beyond its capabilities. Thankfully, recording and mastering engineers got hip to digital, but many lost there perspective early on regarding how dBFS and the VU scale don't relate. Many people tend to think you must set your levels so that you reach digital full-bit.
This is a crazy, CRAZY concept that's been perpetuated for 20 years!
When digital machines first came out for professional use, 16-bit at 44.1KHz was the standard setting. Even companies like Apogee made retrofit D/A/D converter cards for the Sony PCM3324 if you wanted improved performance (for a hefty price tag). Now a days, 24-bit at 96K seems nominal.
Where the joke is regards the noise floor. At 16/44.1 you have about 30dB greater SNR compared to a 2" 24-track recorder operating at 30ips. Yet most everyone pushes the noise floor below the gain structure of their consoles when digital was supposed to increase your headroom.
For me, if I see my peak meters move at all, I hit record. dBFS is supposed to be at the clipping level of your audio console (about 22dB above nominal), not a hair above your operating level :)
I won't even mention loudness war compression.. Engineers need to know how to set levels first.
"If there can be no quiet, there can be no loud." The loudness war explained
RMS wants his soapbox back.
I fully agree. For anyone to infringe on their copywrite, their HTML should be legal HTML. What court could hold up any claim for stealing something that wasn't what it claimed to be? 57 errors past the first issue!
I shall now refuse to sublimate the word 'mashup' to this web thingie and shall from here forth be unnamed.
Yahoo!
I'm the real Napster.
The RSS itself is ok, http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F% 2Fnews.google.com%2F%3Fned%3Dus%26topic%3Dh%26outp ut%3Drss but that's not the least of it..
Just take any of the <description> entries and validate them as valid HTML 4.01 and you'll see that google make the same mistakes each and every time with things like a closing </b> crosses an opening <font> and no closing </tr> and </td> before the closing </table>, etc. What perverse and simple errors they have in their main template. How can they overlook this?
try to parse it, I dare you!
http://www.freepress.net/docs/mb_telco_lies.pdf
http://news.com.com/2100-1033_3-5166813.html
http://www.utopianet.org/what/metronet.html
Palo Alto, CA had a successful trial of FTTH, but stopped it: http://www.cpau.com/fiber/trial/ftindex.html
agreed, the point *IS* to allow more providers to the consumer
Like bridge and road construction, its up to the local communities to solve their "last mile" problem.
That part is called the optical terminator.
'nuf said.
bonds together four cable CHANNELS not "lines".