Exactly. An algorithm can't see what isn't there, so the more data you have, the better your result will be. You can of course improve upon the algorithm, but the quality/quantity of data is always going to be more important.
I would love to be able to purchase one of those antennas commercially. I just don't have the spare time to build one, but would love to be able to get one. I hope that since the design is GPL, someone will be selling them online soon.
Think about building several of these self-contained units, and burying them in the ground in third world countries. While not a perfect solution, it's basically free power to help countries become developed, while using a carbon-free energy source.
The advantages to us are that the servers are there when we need them, and costing us absolutely nothing when we don't. They're cheap, and much, much more flexible than our Webfusion service.
That's exactly the reason Amazon started offering S3/EC2/etc. It's cheap for them to build the infrastructure up since they have to use it anyway for peak shopping periods (Christmas). But the other times of the year when they don't need the capacity, they can make a buck renting it out to others. You shouldn't use it for every situation, but their product/offering definitely has it's place.
Although, it isn't as smooth as Netflix's Watch It Now (which relies on Windows Media Player instead of Flash). Once navigation and usability is worked out, and the buffering/streaming is tuned, it'll be a fantastic site (I just finished watching all of Season 11 through the site).
Honestly, it wouldn't be hard to integrate this into current/future phones. Simply have the phone listen for a bluetooth transmitter saying "quiet zone, please go to silent/vibrate mode if set to do so". I wouldn't mind having my phone do this in the areas you mentioned, as I would do so anyway. This simply reduces the hassle of having to do it manually all the time. You would still have to give users the option of ignoring "quiet zones", but I think most people would want to respect the "quiet zones".
Would you mind as much if this was only used for text messages and data plans for in-flight communications using a laptop? What if phones were forced into vibrate mode when they detected the picocell on the plane?
Very true. Eventually, drones will be equipped with ADS-B (the new air traffic control system that relies on GPS for every aircraft in the area to announce it's position to every other aircraft in the area and the ground) and this won't be as big of a problem (once you can be completely aware of your surroundings, such as with what ADS-B provides, you can make decisions based on that data with software).
and if you fill the tank, take off and drive full throttle, you'll run out of gas in 12 minutes. Twelve. That's 720 seconds. I've waited longer than that for a Big Mac at the drive through. And you'll only go 50 miles. Maybe.
I'm talking laws because laws are what corporations are governed by. You're talking abstract rights. I believe in the right to free speech, but I'm not going to bang down AOL's door if they censor someone. I expect the person being censored to move to another provider. And I take offense to your idea that global bandwidth providers' pipes are public. They're not. They're private runs of fiber owned by a corporation. I do lean more towards your argument with regards to the last mile being public, as in most cases the corporation who owns those lines was provided a monopoly and some sort of public funding or subsidy.
You make some excellent points, although I think the flat rate model would work. It's just a matter of increasing efficiencies while at the same time spreading the cost fairly.
Total cost is $118K. $98K base price, all options, premium jet black, and I changed the leather seat colors. Also, they charge me $8K for being out of the California area to handle servicing the car.
Tesla hasn't given much details regarding how service is going to be handled, but the only major parts are the motor, the battery system, and the power regulator. Everything else is creature comfort. If something major goes wrong, I can always ship it back to California to be worked on (I'm in Chicago).
I used to own 2 Corvettes (a '99 and an '01), so good luck with getting one. They're monsters =) I wanted an Audi R8 http://www.audiusa.com/audi/us/en2/new_cars/Audi_R8.html but went with the Roadster due to it being environmentally friendly.
As for "It's Cogent's network": Property rights do not trump all other rights.
With regards to the Government, yes. Freedom of speech is not guaranteed across a network because someone demands it. Their network, their rules. If someone isn't happy with that, they're more then able to purchase transit or peer with someone else.
I'll have to dig the link up for you (I believe CalCars or the Earth Policy Institute put it out), but because so little electricity is used at night, 84% of current vehicle energy use could be offset with electricity with no change in pricing or adverse affects on the electric distribution network. You would need to charge at night (midnight to 5am), but most people have their car in their garage at this time anyway.
So yes, electrical costs will remain close to the same. With regards to taxes, state and federal funding will switch to a permit model, where you pay a flat rate for your vehicle per year. This is because there is no way to track where you get your power from for your car (sure, they can monitor your home, but what about at work? your friend's house?). Even with the pessimistic presumptions you highlight in your post, it will still be more beneficial to have an electric car and deal with reduced range then to pay $4-5/gallon at the pump.
I think the better question to ask is, how long can you afford to have the ability to do a fuel-up turn around? The price of gas is more then likely going to reach $4/gal within the next 2-3 months. How expensive does gas have to get before your ability to fuel up extremely quickly is no longer that much of a benefit?
No, the Tesla Roadster can't charge up in 10 minutes (3.5 hours for full charge). But when I charge my Roadster (2009 waitlist), it will only cost me $4 to go 220 miles.
Cogent blocked that too after 12 hours, actively. To blackmail TSIC or something. Why Cogent should accept traffic? Because it's not COgent, it's the Internet. And that's how it works. Nobody can force others to peer with them, or else...
I don't think you're aware of how peering works between extremely large providers. Politics play a large part, and it's still the wild west between a lot of them. And yes, if you're big enough, you can "blackmail" the smaller or more dependent organization to go along with what you want. Level3 has done it before, because they're a huge global provider. Telia may have a chunk of Europe, but it's still just a chunk of Europe. Cogent has a global backbone, and most of their customers are large content providers.
Large content providers > end users in a handful of European states
As a fairly large Cogent customer (transit, not transport), I'd have to disagree. If Telia is simply going to drop peering and force Cogent to waste bandwidth at other interconnection points (because Telia refuses to upgrade it's own peering points with Cogent), why should Cogent accept their traffic via any route? Frankly, you're right, Telia is too small for me to care all that much. If I had a significant client base there, I could always pull connectivity from Global Crossing, Teleglobe, etc. to reach them. I hope Cogent puts the screws to Telia.
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"Ahh, photons. I don't know if you're waves or particles, but you sure do go down smooth." --bender
Exactly. An algorithm can't see what isn't there, so the more data you have, the better your result will be. You can of course improve upon the algorithm, but the quality/quantity of data is always going to be more important.
I would love to be able to purchase one of those antennas commercially. I just don't have the spare time to build one, but would love to be able to get one. I hope that since the design is GPL, someone will be selling them online soon.
*looks on Terrapass website for "In the event of destruction of your space elevator" carbon offset*
"Taking warning labels off of everything and letting things work out on their own" would also have been an acceptable answer
Technically, all batteries "generate" power through a chemical reaction, but I don't want to split "potential" hairs with you ;)
Think about building several of these self-contained units, and burying them in the ground in third world countries. While not a perfect solution, it's basically free power to help countries become developed, while using a carbon-free energy source.
That's exactly the reason Amazon started offering S3/EC2/etc. It's cheap for them to build the infrastructure up since they have to use it anyway for peak shopping periods (Christmas). But the other times of the year when they don't need the capacity, they can make a buck renting it out to others. You shouldn't use it for every situation, but their product/offering definitely has it's place.
Although, it isn't as smooth as Netflix's Watch It Now (which relies on Windows Media Player instead of Flash). Once navigation and usability is worked out, and the buffering/streaming is tuned, it'll be a fantastic site (I just finished watching all of Season 11 through the site).
Honestly, it wouldn't be hard to integrate this into current/future phones. Simply have the phone listen for a bluetooth transmitter saying "quiet zone, please go to silent/vibrate mode if set to do so". I wouldn't mind having my phone do this in the areas you mentioned, as I would do so anyway. This simply reduces the hassle of having to do it manually all the time. You would still have to give users the option of ignoring "quiet zones", but I think most people would want to respect the "quiet zones".
Possibly. I'm a T-Mobile user, and I pay a flat fee to get unlimited test messages (alerts from servers and SCADA equipment).
Would you mind as much if this was only used for text messages and data plans for in-flight communications using a laptop? What if phones were forced into vibrate mode when they detected the picocell on the plane?
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I calculated the lease payment. It comes out to be about 30K/month for 48 months. Ouch.
I'm talking laws because laws are what corporations are governed by. You're talking abstract rights. I believe in the right to free speech, but I'm not going to bang down AOL's door if they censor someone. I expect the person being censored to move to another provider. And I take offense to your idea that global bandwidth providers' pipes are public. They're not. They're private runs of fiber owned by a corporation. I do lean more towards your argument with regards to the last mile being public, as in most cases the corporation who owns those lines was provided a monopoly and some sort of public funding or subsidy.
You make some excellent points, although I think the flat rate model would work. It's just a matter of increasing efficiencies while at the same time spreading the cost fairly.
Tesla hasn't given much details regarding how service is going to be handled, but the only major parts are the motor, the battery system, and the power regulator. Everything else is creature comfort. If something major goes wrong, I can always ship it back to California to be worked on (I'm in Chicago).
I used to own 2 Corvettes (a '99 and an '01), so good luck with getting one. They're monsters =) I wanted an Audi R8 http://www.audiusa.com/audi/us/en2/new_cars/Audi_R8.html but went with the Roadster due to it being environmentally friendly.
With regards to the Government, yes. Freedom of speech is not guaranteed across a network because someone demands it. Their network, their rules. If someone isn't happy with that, they're more then able to purchase transit or peer with someone else.
So yes, electrical costs will remain close to the same. With regards to taxes, state and federal funding will switch to a permit model, where you pay a flat rate for your vehicle per year. This is because there is no way to track where you get your power from for your car (sure, they can monitor your home, but what about at work? your friend's house?). Even with the pessimistic presumptions you highlight in your post, it will still be more beneficial to have an electric car and deal with reduced range then to pay $4-5/gallon at the pump.
No, the Tesla Roadster can't charge up in 10 minutes (3.5 hours for full charge). But when I charge my Roadster (2009 waitlist), it will only cost me $4 to go 220 miles.
I don't think you're aware of how peering works between extremely large providers. Politics play a large part, and it's still the wild west between a lot of them. And yes, if you're big enough, you can "blackmail" the smaller or more dependent organization to go along with what you want. Level3 has done it before, because they're a huge global provider. Telia may have a chunk of Europe, but it's still just a chunk of Europe. Cogent has a global backbone, and most of their customers are large content providers.
Large content providers > end users in a handful of European states
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeliaSonera
Regional networks are just that, regional. When you de-peer with global backbones, then I'd worry.
As a fairly large Cogent customer (transit, not transport), I'd have to disagree. If Telia is simply going to drop peering and force Cogent to waste bandwidth at other interconnection points (because Telia refuses to upgrade it's own peering points with Cogent), why should Cogent accept their traffic via any route? Frankly, you're right, Telia is too small for me to care all that much. If I had a significant client base there, I could always pull connectivity from Global Crossing, Teleglobe, etc. to reach them. I hope Cogent puts the screws to Telia.