There are an extremely large number of applications out there for AI. Just think of a situation where a decision needs to be made quickly, accurately, and consistently. Everything from medicine to air travel would be touched by it.
It's fairly easy to get around the limitations you pointed out if you're familiar with how GPS operates and have a solid electronics/programming background. The limitation stops only the least motivated.
Good luck. I'm close friends with someone whose seen the consumer credit portfolios of some of the larger lenders in the US. The shakeout is not going to be pretty, and you haven't even seen the beginning of the total defaults out there.
You should keep up with the news. I doubt your rate of return is going to stay high with the number of defaults occurring lately at Amex, Citibank, FIA/Bank of America, etc. An interest rate is only worth something when the debtor pays.
NPR did a fantastic program called "This American Life: The Giant Pool of Money" talking about this very phenomon. So much money is trying to chase decent returns, it's causing bubbles where we don't want bubbles to occur (you could argue you never want bubbles to occur, but that's another story).
My road use is paid for by gas taxes in the gas I pay for. My water, sewage, cellphone (no landline), and electricity is all paid for directly by me (not subsidized, I pay the full cost to deliver those services to me). So, the only thing left is fire and police. I live in an unincorporated area, so I only have county police. Fine by me. Also, my house is a year old with a sprinkler system, smoke alarms, etc. So, by cheating on taxes, a business owner is preventing his hard earned cash from being shovled off to DC (income taxes are mostly federal) to be redistributed by some asshat politician or to be spent on the hugely overfunded military industrial complex (DoD budget is typically 500 billion a year).
Yeah, I feel so sorry for the gov. having to chase tax evaders.
Ahh, yes, I must be in my basement. Come see me when you've done major IP engineering at Tier 1/2 ISPs. If Comcast switched to IPTV completely (as Verizon has done with their FIOS offering) and multicasted content to the boxes, the only bandwidth used would be when people join the multicast stream.
But the best part about peering is that the upfront cost is big, and the ongoing operating cost is minimal (GE and 10GE peering hardware is pricing, but once it's setup, your support staff just needs to maintain it if it breaks). Transit of course is going to cost you per mb/s, but big providers (eyeball networks and content providers) usually have little transit in the mix, and mostly peer. If Comcast reduced the amount of channels on their network, they'd be able to support a higher amount of bandwidth to end users (of course, this doesn't fix their peering or core capacity problems).
I agree that multicast could be used to push live events that lots of people are watching (like the Olympics). But this is something that you'd handle on the backend of the system. Want to watch Ferris Buller's Day Off? It's pulled from the storage repository. Want to watch Olympic event X right now? Well, if it's already happened, it gets pulled from the storage repository. If it's happening live, you and everyone else on the network who are watching it have your client (PC, TV, whatever) joined to the network's multicast stream for that data. Voila! Instant bandwidth savings.
Australian bandwidth pricing is high because a) Your telcos suck and B) Most of your content is being pulled over small pipes from North America.
I don't care how good American broadband users have it, they should always be pushing for it to be better. You should be doing the same, and if you're not, wahhh fucking wahh, feel free to whine somewhere else.
No, I wouldn't pay it. I'd prefer my municipality create a municipal fiber network, so once they capex is covered (the fiber plant outlay), I don't get raped like I do with Comcast.
I think it's time people start investigating coop/municipal fiber solutions, similar to UTOPIA in Utah. Why let Comcast control the spigot when it can be done cheaper and with a higher level of service?
How about we look at how much bandwidth they could let people use if they didn't push 500 channels of bullshit onto people, and instead let people pull what they wanted only when they wanted over On Demand.
The idea of television as a broadcast medium is dead (as is always-running channels). Soon, you'll pick what and when to watch a la Tivo/Hulu/Netflix Watch It Now, etc.
Here in Chicago area, we had someone years back rob a supermarket and kill a woman in the process, fleeing in a vehicle with temp plates. Now, dealers have to give out real plates when they sell a car (some dealers are still in the transition phase, but soon all will be required) and the plates are live as soon as you drive off the lot.
I rode my motorcycle from Chicago to Milford, CT to see a Nine Inch Nails concert at the beginning of this month. I put my IPass (Illinois Tollway toll collection) transponder on the top of all my clothes/laptop/etc in my T-Bag (straps to my cruiser's backrest). Worked like a champ through Indiana (I-Zoom), the Pennsylvania turnpike, as well as on some huge bridge from New Jersey to Connecticut.
Also, it'd be quite easy to switch to electronic tolls altogether. Everyone should get one (a transponder) to keep the flow of traffic moving (also, think of the cumulative fuel and maintenance saved if no one had to stop for cash tolls). If you go through and your transponder isn't working, they should read the plate and send a bill as Canada does. You'll always miss a few people because of dirty plates, but toll authorities could always strike back by requiring toll registration tied to the RFID tags now placed in all tires.
I thought that was the case, as Tesla had to license the Reductive Charging patent from AC Propulsion. I also looked at going with AC Propulsion for the electric motor and controller system, but they wanted $25K for it. I'd much prefer go with Tesla's refined system.
Since I ordered a Tesla Roadster, I'm trying to have Tesla sell me a motor and a PEM. I'm going a different way for the battery storage system (not a fan of the ESS they've put together). I'm planing on making the energy storage system interchangable, so I can easily pull the power system out and swap it for EEstor ultracapacitors when they come out (3-6 months). Haven't worked out the details on charging yet, although I know I'm going to need to pull between 30-80 amps at 220V. It's going to be a fun project =)
Your towers still need a high-speed local loop if you're serving 3G from them. Nothing like trying to push 50Mb/sec from your phone to the tower, with the tower having a 1.5Mb/sec microwave uplink.
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There are an extremely large number of applications out there for AI. Just think of a situation where a decision needs to be made quickly, accurately, and consistently. Everything from medicine to air travel would be touched by it.
*looks for Amex Gold Charge Card and Amazon EC2 account credentials*
Wait till Google uses unmanned aerial vehicles for getting imagery.
Because Microsoft wouldn't be able to implement anything worthwhile properly with the data? If Google knows one thing, it's how to execute.
It's fairly easy to get around the limitations you pointed out if you're familiar with how GPS operates and have a solid electronics/programming background. The limitation stops only the least motivated.
Good luck. I'm close friends with someone whose seen the consumer credit portfolios of some of the larger lenders in the US. The shakeout is not going to be pretty, and you haven't even seen the beginning of the total defaults out there.
You should keep up with the news. I doubt your rate of return is going to stay high with the number of defaults occurring lately at Amex, Citibank, FIA/Bank of America, etc. An interest rate is only worth something when the debtor pays.
NPR did a fantastic program called "This American Life: The Giant Pool of Money" talking about this very phenomon. So much money is trying to chase decent returns, it's causing bubbles where we don't want bubbles to occur (you could argue you never want bubbles to occur, but that's another story).
You're correct. You'd need to get around %10 returns to beat inflation and get to a million bucks.
Yeah, I feel so sorry for the gov. having to chase tax evaders.
Any comments on Singapore Air? I'm flying ORD->Tokyo shortly on them.
Ahh, yes, I must be in my basement. Come see me when you've done major IP engineering at Tier 1/2 ISPs. If Comcast switched to IPTV completely (as Verizon has done with their FIOS offering) and multicasted content to the boxes, the only bandwidth used would be when people join the multicast stream.
But the best part about peering is that the upfront cost is big, and the ongoing operating cost is minimal (GE and 10GE peering hardware is pricing, but once it's setup, your support staff just needs to maintain it if it breaks). Transit of course is going to cost you per mb/s, but big providers (eyeball networks and content providers) usually have little transit in the mix, and mostly peer. If Comcast reduced the amount of channels on their network, they'd be able to support a higher amount of bandwidth to end users (of course, this doesn't fix their peering or core capacity problems).
(Why yes, I do engineer IP networks for a living)
I don't care how good American broadband users have it, they should always be pushing for it to be better. You should be doing the same, and if you're not, wahhh fucking wahh, feel free to whine somewhere else.
- Fedex-ing a DVD-R (4.4 gigs) from Boston to Sydney in 2 business days costs $63
Don't plan on playing WoW with that latency...
No, I wouldn't pay it. I'd prefer my municipality create a municipal fiber network, so once they capex is covered (the fiber plant outlay), I don't get raped like I do with Comcast.
*moves over to reading Slashdot
My god man! You've copied and pasted your exact comment from Fark!
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3835988&IDComment=43858596#c43858596
I think it's time people start investigating coop/municipal fiber solutions, similar to UTOPIA in Utah. Why let Comcast control the spigot when it can be done cheaper and with a higher level of service?
The idea of television as a broadcast medium is dead (as is always-running channels). Soon, you'll pick what and when to watch a la Tivo/Hulu/Netflix Watch It Now, etc.
Here in Chicago area, we had someone years back rob a supermarket and kill a woman in the process, fleeing in a vehicle with temp plates. Now, dealers have to give out real plates when they sell a car (some dealers are still in the transition phase, but soon all will be required) and the plates are live as soon as you drive off the lot.
Also, it'd be quite easy to switch to electronic tolls altogether. Everyone should get one (a transponder) to keep the flow of traffic moving (also, think of the cumulative fuel and maintenance saved if no one had to stop for cash tolls). If you go through and your transponder isn't working, they should read the plate and send a bill as Canada does. You'll always miss a few people because of dirty plates, but toll authorities could always strike back by requiring toll registration tied to the RFID tags now placed in all tires.
I thought that was the case, as Tesla had to license the Reductive Charging patent from AC Propulsion. I also looked at going with AC Propulsion for the electric motor and controller system, but they wanted $25K for it. I'd much prefer go with Tesla's refined system.
Since I ordered a Tesla Roadster, I'm trying to have Tesla sell me a motor and a PEM. I'm going a different way for the battery storage system (not a fan of the ESS they've put together). I'm planing on making the energy storage system interchangable, so I can easily pull the power system out and swap it for EEstor ultracapacitors when they come out (3-6 months). Haven't worked out the details on charging yet, although I know I'm going to need to pull between 30-80 amps at 220V. It's going to be a fun project =)
Your towers still need a high-speed local loop if you're serving 3G from them. Nothing like trying to push 50Mb/sec from your phone to the tower, with the tower having a 1.5Mb/sec microwave uplink.