Here's an interesting though: Why would you even file for an injunction if the person/entity is already in compliance?
I'm not a legal expert, but it seems pointless to waste time on doing this unless MS is either in the wrong (in Sun's opinion) already or MS is planning to bring something to market that does violate an injunction. My interest would be more in the latter...
Unfortunately the article didn't provide much inof about what specifically is being injunctioned or the grounds of the injunction. Taking it at face value it would seem the injunction should at least effect MS's Java development tools, such as Visual J++. What would be really interesting is if Sun persues MS on the grounds of anything they make using Java uses the Java licence. This could include Internet Explorer or even NT Server's IIS Web Server.
Just my thoughts, feel free to correct me as nessesairy:)
True. But where does Canadian Law stop and U.S. Law begin? Also it depends on what you call public. Technically cable channels are not public, they are for the private audiences of Cable TV subscribers. that's why you sign a contract describing your rights as a subscriber with you cable company. The only thing they would (probably) be able to broadcast then is Public Access, channels with both channel and broadcaster approval, and anything they receive via antenna TV. Possibly old-style (non Direct-TVish) satelite TV too (i'm not sure how that works)
I think anyone trying to rebroadcast in the US on this level will be stopped. However, while it is illegel to rebroadcast, I don't think you could stop internet broadcasting if you _are_ the cable provider (i.e. you bought broadcast rights to all the various channels, etc.) The medium at this point is your choice. If you use existing coaxial cable, fine. If you stream it over the internet, fine (unless the channel makes you explicitly sign it out). If you send it up to be distributed by digital satelite, fine. Shouldn't make a difference.
It will though, because this breaks other cable companies monopolies by using their coaxial medium to deliver TV. They will sue, legitimately or not, because it is a threat.
You definately can broadcast over the internet if it is your own channel. You own it and do what you want with it. In the end, it may reach this level but that is highly doubtful except with localized small channels.
I haven't read the article/press release, but it is possible to have an app you double click and have it unload the current OS and bring up a new one. This is one way to load LinuxPPC from MacOS (via BootX; in fact this is how the installer is run for R5 and later), and it wouldn't suprize me if the BeOS could do the same thing (maybe even under Windows).
Obviously there is some kind of kludge in place (it seems illogical to unload an OS and have an application still running), but it can do all the work required to bring up another operating system on reboot and reboot, etc.
I read somewhere that a far tangeable result of quantum mechanics, Einsteineian theories, etc. that Black holes must actually evaporate. This obviously is very contrary to what you would expect, and the rate of evaporation reflects that (something like 1^-100 gram/yr).
I don't know if this includes everything that gets sucked into the black hole, but it may very well since classic physics gets unclassical as matter accelerates to near c (speed of light).
For instance, using LaGrange equasions as v->c, the length/size of an object approaches infinity, time change approaches 0, etc. with respect to a stationary observer. This means a blach hole has infinite timeless mass? While I doubt that, there are other cleve ways of explaining what could happen.
All AOL customers will now receive their bill only 65% of the time. If the bill is forgotten, you will receive a threatning letter with a bill including last month, this month, and penalties for 20% of the sum of the last two.
AOL customers can also expect people not paying for AOL to randomly be given access to the network if someone in the area is given AOL access. Furthermore if you move out you will be charged for AOL access at your old address until someone gets around to actually disconnecting the line (ususally around 3 months).
Actually, the SuperG is only 1000 MHz, and is made from a Athlon 750MHz because:
750 base MHz + (750*33%-clockup for cryo)= 750 + 250 = 1000
whereas
800 base MHz + (800*33%-clockup for cryo)= 800 + 266.66 = 1066 So unless the article was updated and I didn't catch it, this is not based on the 800MHz, though nothing stops you from taking a preexisting SuperG's 750 out and putting an 800 in...
is AGP 4x, PC133 RAM, more than 3 RAM slots, and SMP on K7 MBs. VIA has a chipset they claim is already out to deal with the first three. Of course official Red Hat support would be nice also as opposed to the "it's a to recent technology to be properly tested" on there website.
Of course, given the $100 difference between a K7@700MHz and a K7@750MHz I have fears of what the 800 price will be it, or it's availability (try to find a P3 800 without being a corporate customer to Dell, etc. and you will see what I mean)
Also, does this mean we'll see a Kryo CoolAthlon announcement for 1.066 GHz? (upward multiplier is 133%)...drool drool....
I remember from a previous article that there were 3 other landers that were testing a brute force touchdown on the surface (Mars Deep Space 2 I think). What happened to these guys during the experiment?
Even if the MPL crashed into a canyon, these guys should have survived since there is a terminal velocity they should have reached, thus making the distence they fell irrevelent. Heck, landing on a slope may cushion the fall somewhat...
I don't know if I qualify for "Geek" or intellegent, but heres why I like Houston:
1) Housing. For $750/mo (or less, even!) I can get an apartment with carpeting, washer, dryer, garbage disposal, dishwasher, and full size bedroom and bathroom in their own separate rooms (i.e. non-studio). Some places you can get a 2 bed at this cost with these amenities. In chicago I would be lucky to find any apartment at that price, much less NY, etc.
2) Tech. Houston is a "new city". It doesn't have the old buildings and with that the old coaxial lines and copper phone lines. It has fiber all over and everything is less than 20 years old, so new techs come here pretty quick.
3) Size. Houston is the #1 industrial center in the world. If I lose my job there is good chance I will find another here.
4) Society. Everyone likes 'big' things, drives 75-80mph and is usually nice to you. Also, the city is very spread out. It is not inconceivable (sp?) to have a house with a garage, front yard, and back yard and live mile from downtown.
5) Intellegence. There are several Universities around that research and specialize in a wide variety of topics. Houston has a higher chance for an intellegent conversation than many other places I have been.
There is much that would make it better IMHO (mountains to go skiing, cleaner air, actual seasons other than summer, a big, CLEAN body of water nearby, etc.) but it's pretty good as is.
RAID is faster for read data from a disk, but actually slows down on writing when compared to a single disk drive setup. When you gather data you are primarly writing and not reading.
I guess it may be possible to have a data speed up if you implement RAID 0, but you also multiply your chances of having a HD failure ruin your data by the number of HD's you have in the RAID setup.
Another thing to watch out for is that RAMBUS RAM is 5x or more to that of standard SDRAM/SGRAM prices. Tom's Hardware did a review of a new DDR board by Micron (called the Samurai) that shows equal promise with much less expensive RAM. unfortunately it is not available yet...but I have heard that the potential for US Gov. funding tends to make prjects "move faster":). The review is here There is a discussion of what DDR means at the link. This still doesn't get you away from the Intel chips though. Hopefully with luck someone else will pick this up for the Athlon before long. (I drool at the thought of a DDR Kryotech K7...)
If I remember correctly, when Niagra Falls was to be harnessed for hydroelectric power (around the turn of the centuary, I believe), Testla proposed the idea of something very absurd. The current electrical power genius, Thomas Edison, and his company Edison Electric company (now General Electric, or GE) thought his idea was poposterous. Testla proposed he could send current on a wire farther than anything that had been done before (20 miles was the current maximum) and everyhting could run off of it.
The James Westinghouse company (I think) backed Testla and outbid Edison for the Niagra Falls hydroelectric station. In that station the first of these new generators was built, for Tetla didn't even build a protoype or even write down anything related to what he had discovered. He also claimed it would give twice as much power per revolution of the generator magnet as what was currently being used. The scientific community though Testla a fool.
What he discovered, and what we now use to power homes across America and most of the rest of the world.
'It' is alternating current.
Science works in funny ways, but sometimes the 'nut' does end up being right. The results I saw in the article did not completely write out the technology proposed (unlike the cold fusion followups in the late 80's early 90's). It's something to ponder
The numbers don't seem to add up if you take everything according to historical story. We must remember that is what it is--a historical story. With the concept of hubs and hierarchical management, Santa's world operation can be split down into manageable tasks, with the true Santa acting as World Operations manager in the WHQ, North Pole. He also would have realized the importance of outsourcing cumbersome tasks to contract workers, like Mall appearances, Parades, etc. The revenue from all this comes from a payment made on behalf of educational institutions for being a desired and powerful influence on Children. His influence lessens the need for disciplinary actions this time of year, due to the 'bad or good' side of Santa. Disciplinary action takes time away from teaching, so the schools profit more from paying Santa this 'kickback', so they gladly pay.
So the idea of Santa is legitimate. You have to remember the corporate breakdown of his operation, though, to make it all work.
IMHO, it is ridiculus that people are arguing he never should have received a 100% on the paper due to the topic. Not to start a flamewar, but i twonder how many of you read the students actual writing?
A grade should not depend on a topic for most regards. For instance I should be able to write an essay on how Freud is the biggest idiot the world has seen and recive a high mark if I can be creative, back up my conclusions and be thought provoking. The psych teacher may not be happy I went against her/his vision of Freud, but that's a personal problem that should be ignored.
In the case of a seventh grader I would bet that the most weighted criteria for a grade are grammer related and creativity. The child could write a story on how he and 5 friends get stoned because they pass out and dont have to go home and be beaten... the story grade should not suffer for perspective.
Please note I am not saying that such a young child writing a story like that on his own would not make me raise an eyebrow if I was a teacher, I am talking soley from the grading point of view.
(Also, in this case he was given the topic anyway. A seven year old isn't going to realize political reprocussions. He probably doesn't even know what a political reprocussion is)
This is a gas and brightned my day, but there are some other altercations that could be made for more fun.
(I haven't looked at the patch code so I don't know how this is implemented, so I am taking guesses in the meantime)
What if rather than viewing what is in/proc (processes) we moved out to/. or/home? Then we could easily create a monster for every file in the directory (or object, i.e. file/folder/link,etc.). Mapping DOOM actions out we would get some fun results
Hit points would be equivelent to the file size in K. Thus, you may need team help to kill off those leftover Oracle datafiles or real nasty core files.
Folders would be rooms. Files are monsters that originate in the rooms. Symbolic links would be mapped as teleporters. For extra bonus/worry let the file structure change if the monsters wander into the next room. You will have to heard the sheep, so to speak, to keep/usr/bin/X11/xterm from going into/home/httpd/cgi-bin/, etc.
As in the origional, map important files to bigger creatures. EX: make the "last boss" of DOOM mapped to vmlinux.
The only downside to this is that small files will eventually succumb to large ones (like core). But this is ok, because if you leave for a day your employer will realise just how much administration the system needs...
........ The point tweaks can be pointless once you have the tools to map an event in DOOM with a command line script. It's the initial work that is what is to be really commended. Thank you
I think that's what the optical molecule article was about that was on/. awhile back was about. Don't know the link, you'll probably have to search.
Basically, photon hits special molecule giving it energy. Energy causes either reorientation or structural change (like denaturing a protien with light instead of hydronium ions from an acid). The new form/position is optically translucent, whereas before it was opague. Not sure what switched it back to 'off'(opague), it may have just reemmited a photon after a while or whatever.
There is a minimum latency, and that will be the time it takes light to go from one location to the other along a path. In networking, we can view this as the time it takes light to go the distence of the networking cable connecting point A to point B. (This does not count for subspace negative matter wormhole theories and what not--by today's technology).
However the time (latency) is usually much longer than this time, due to many things, such as media conversion (ex: copper to fiber) time, and routing. One thing that is usually a big bottleneck for most of the world is that ISP's make money by overselling their connections. If an ISP has a T3 uplink, then they will make profit by selling 15-20 T1's, or the bandwith equivellent in a modem pool. If all 20 T1's were using their full bandwith load, then the T3 would be swamped, and the router should line up the packets and send them out as it can, putting the extras it can't send ASAP in it's memory (if it's memory becomes full then the packet is usually dropped). This is reflected in your ping time, or latency since the ping packet had to wait in a line to get past the ISP's router.
Since most common dialup ISP's connect to a larger domain-wide ISP which gets its bandwith from a backbone ISP or bandwidth reseller, that's 3 routers that it may have to filter thorugh, causing high latency.
With large-pipe OC (optical cable) then cost of supplying bandwith goes down because of supply and demand (there is now more supply) and ISP's can afford more bandwith for their existing customers without cutting profits (so now you would have say an OC-3 for the 20 T1's which even leaves some breathing room on the cable, I think). Now with the big cable (and hopefully a better router to handle the full OC-3) there will not be a waiting line of packets coming to the router and latency will get closer to theoritical minimum (the speed of light between A and B from above)
Of course the ISP will probably expand and oversell the OC-3, but that's another story:)
(FYI this is what makes some ISP's better than others: they either don't oversell their lines by as much, have fewer "middleman ISPs", and/or have better hardware (ex: having the router in the case above, with extra memory, etc.)
I believe that it may be a bit rude to ask directly about another product, however I would like to know what possibilities that you believe exist on dynamically stored map/landscape that changes as the game progresses (ex: a rocket blasts a piece of rock from a celing and the rubble crushes someone else and remains a barrier while providing a hole in the celing to the sky and level of the map above). I would also like to know how hard it would be to implement somthing along these lines with respect to programming time and any potential hardware limitations of the current market. Additionally there was a facinating article about a graphics technology that was invented/developing in Austrailia on slashdot a couple days ago that involved 3D imaging I was wondering what you though of this technology from a viability and implementation (if viable) prospective and how it could change both the hardware and software markets for products based on visualization?
If everyone had something else (for example, an antimatter beam), then why would you want something not as powerful as you could have? Most of greed is driven by 2 things: wanting and not having.
Also, nukes are delivered by a slow process of missile, aircraft, ground transport delivery (for all but the smallest). If you had something more powerful OR almost equal and deliverable instantly(ex: orbiting lazer), it would make an ICBM a joke. It would be destroyed before it fully left the silo.
Apple was testing 233 or 266MHz RAM and has it working (accoring to the article) but has not committed to implementing it commertially yet because it is so hard to find. This is just for the G4's also, don't know what's cooking for G5. http://MOSR.com, you will have to look to find the article (may instead have been on appleinsider, I can't remember.
From your profile and the messeges you have posted here and in the past, it appears you tend to like to post items in a very flaimbaitish mannor. You may want to employ intellegence and courtesy in future postings.
Other articles do a good job of discussing the claims of the AirPort, so I'm not going to repeat them here.
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Here's an interesting though: Why would you even file for an injunction if the person/entity is already in compliance?
:)
I'm not a legal expert, but it seems pointless to waste time on doing this unless MS is either in the wrong (in Sun's opinion) already or MS is planning to bring something to market that does violate an injunction. My interest would be more in the latter...
Unfortunately the article didn't provide much inof about what specifically is being injunctioned or the grounds of the injunction. Taking it at face value it would seem the injunction should at least effect MS's Java development tools, such as Visual J++. What would be really interesting is if Sun persues MS on the grounds of anything they make using Java uses the Java licence. This could include Internet Explorer or even NT Server's IIS Web Server.
Just my thoughts, feel free to correct me as nessesairy
True. But where does Canadian Law stop and U.S. Law begin? Also it depends on what you call public. Technically cable channels are not public, they are for the private audiences of Cable TV subscribers. that's why you sign a contract describing your rights as a subscriber with you cable company. The only thing they would (probably) be able to broadcast then is Public Access, channels with both channel and broadcaster approval, and anything they receive via antenna TV. Possibly old-style (non Direct-TVish) satelite TV too (i'm not sure how that works)
I think anyone trying to rebroadcast in the US on this level will be stopped. However, while it is illegel to rebroadcast, I don't think you could stop internet broadcasting if you _are_ the cable provider (i.e. you bought broadcast rights to all the various channels, etc.) The medium at this point is your choice. If you use existing coaxial cable, fine. If you stream it over the internet, fine (unless the channel makes you explicitly sign it out). If you send it up to be distributed by digital satelite, fine. Shouldn't make a difference.
It will though, because this breaks other cable companies monopolies by using their coaxial medium to deliver TV. They will sue, legitimately or not, because it is a threat.
You definately can broadcast over the internet if it is your own channel. You own it and do what you want with it. In the end, it may reach this level but that is highly doubtful except with localized small channels.
Just my 2 cents
I haven't read the article/press release, but it is possible to have an app you double click and have it unload the current OS and bring up a new one. This is one way to load LinuxPPC from MacOS (via BootX; in fact this is how the installer is run for R5 and later), and it wouldn't suprize me if the BeOS could do the same thing (maybe even under Windows).
Obviously there is some kind of kludge in place (it seems illogical to unload an OS and have an application still running), but it can do all the work required to bring up another operating system on reboot and reboot, etc.
I read somewhere that a far tangeable result of quantum mechanics, Einsteineian theories, etc. that Black holes must actually evaporate. This obviously is very contrary to what you would expect, and the rate of evaporation reflects that (something like 1^-100 gram/yr).
I don't know if this includes everything that gets sucked into the black hole, but it may very well since classic physics gets unclassical as matter accelerates to near c (speed of light).
For instance, using LaGrange equasions as v->c, the length/size of an object approaches infinity, time change approaches 0, etc. with respect to a stationary observer. This means a blach hole has infinite timeless mass? While I doubt that, there are other cleve ways of explaining what could happen.
All AOL customers will now receive their bill only 65% of the time. If the bill is forgotten, you will receive a threatning letter with a bill including last month, this month, and penalties for 20% of the sum of the last two.
AOL customers can also expect people not paying for AOL to randomly be given access to the network if someone in the area is given AOL access. Furthermore if you move out you will be charged for AOL access at your old address until someone gets around to actually disconnecting the line (ususally around 3 months).
Actually, the SuperG is only 1000 MHz, and is made from a Athlon 750MHz because:
750 base MHz + (750*33%-clockup for cryo)=
750 + 250 = 1000
whereas
800 base MHz + (800*33%-clockup for cryo)=
800 + 266.66 = 1066
So unless the article was updated and I didn't catch it, this is not based on the 800MHz, though nothing stops you from taking a preexisting SuperG's 750 out and putting an 800 in...
is AGP 4x, PC133 RAM, more than 3 RAM slots, and SMP on K7 MBs. VIA has a chipset they claim is already out to deal with the first three. Of course official Red Hat support would be nice also as opposed to the "it's a to recent technology to be properly tested" on there website.
Of course, given the $100 difference between a K7@700MHz and a K7@750MHz I have fears of what the 800 price will be it, or it's availability (try to find a P3 800 without being a corporate customer to Dell, etc. and you will see what I mean)
Also, does this mean we'll see a Kryo CoolAthlon announcement for 1.066 GHz? (upward multiplier is 133%)...drool drool....
I remember from a previous article that there were 3 other landers that were testing a brute force touchdown on the surface (Mars Deep Space 2 I think). What happened to these guys during the experiment?
Even if the MPL crashed into a canyon, these guys should have survived since there is a terminal velocity they should have reached, thus making the distence they fell irrevelent. Heck, landing on a slope may cushion the fall somewhat...
I don't know if I qualify for "Geek" or intellegent, but heres why I like Houston:
1) Housing. For $750/mo (or less, even!) I can get an apartment with carpeting, washer, dryer, garbage disposal, dishwasher, and full size bedroom and bathroom in their own separate rooms (i.e. non-studio). Some places you can get a 2 bed at this cost with these amenities. In chicago I would be lucky to find any apartment at that price, much less NY, etc.
2) Tech. Houston is a "new city". It doesn't have the old buildings and with that the old coaxial lines and copper phone lines. It has fiber all over and everything is less than 20 years old, so new techs come here pretty quick.
3) Size. Houston is the #1 industrial center in the world. If I lose my job there is good chance I will find another here.
4) Society. Everyone likes 'big' things, drives 75-80mph and is usually nice to you. Also, the city is very spread out. It is not inconceivable (sp?) to have a house with a garage, front yard, and back yard and live mile from downtown.
5) Intellegence. There are several Universities around that research and specialize in a wide variety of topics. Houston has a higher chance for an intellegent conversation than many other places I have been.
There is much that would make it better IMHO (mountains to go skiing, cleaner air, actual seasons other than summer, a big, CLEAN body of water nearby, etc.) but it's pretty good as is.
RAID is faster for read data from a disk, but actually slows down on writing when compared to a single disk drive setup. When you gather data you are primarly writing and not reading.
I guess it may be possible to have a data speed up if you implement RAID 0, but you also multiply your chances of having a HD failure ruin your data by the number of HD's you have in the RAID setup.
Another thing to watch out for is that RAMBUS RAM is 5x or more to that of standard SDRAM/SGRAM prices. Tom's Hardware did a review of a new DDR board by Micron (called the Samurai) that shows equal promise with much less expensive RAM. unfortunately it is not available yet...but I have heard that the potential for US Gov. funding tends to make prjects "move faster" :). The review is here There is a discussion of what DDR means at the link. This still doesn't get you away from the Intel chips though. Hopefully with luck someone else will pick this up for the Athlon before long. (I drool at the thought of a DDR Kryotech K7...)
Let me know when they get 3.3.12 ported to Quake3 ;) Where's the party, BTW (and Merry Xmas from the Chainsaw :)
If I remember correctly, when Niagra Falls was to be harnessed for hydroelectric power (around the turn of the centuary, I believe), Testla proposed the idea of something very absurd. The current electrical power genius, Thomas Edison, and his company Edison Electric company (now General Electric, or GE) thought his idea was poposterous. Testla proposed he could send current on a wire farther than anything that had been done before (20 miles was the current maximum) and everyhting could run off of it.
The James Westinghouse company (I think) backed Testla and outbid Edison for the Niagra Falls hydroelectric station. In that station the first of these new generators was built, for Tetla didn't even build a protoype or even write down anything related to what he had discovered. He also claimed it would give twice as much power per revolution of the generator magnet as what was currently being used. The scientific community though Testla a fool.
What he discovered, and what we now use to power homes across America and most of the rest of the world.
'It' is alternating current.
Science works in funny ways, but sometimes the 'nut' does end up being right. The results I saw in the article did not completely write out the technology proposed (unlike the cold fusion followups in the late 80's early 90's). It's something to ponder
The numbers don't seem to add up if you take everything according to historical story. We must remember that is what it is--a historical story. With the concept of hubs and hierarchical management, Santa's world operation can be split down into manageable tasks, with the true Santa acting as World Operations manager in the WHQ, North Pole. He also would have realized the importance of outsourcing cumbersome tasks to contract workers, like Mall appearances, Parades, etc. The revenue from all this comes from a payment made on behalf of educational institutions for being a desired and powerful influence on Children. His influence lessens the need for disciplinary actions this time of year, due to the 'bad or good' side of Santa. Disciplinary action takes time away from teaching, so the schools profit more from paying Santa this 'kickback', so they gladly pay.
So the idea of Santa is legitimate. You have to remember the corporate breakdown of his operation, though, to make it all work.
It takes two things to come up with a good name. Smarts, or something a bit harder to find... intellegence. That is the true meaning of the Bork!
:)
p.s. I found it
IMHO, it is ridiculus that people are arguing he never should have received a 100% on the paper due to the topic. Not to start a flamewar, but i twonder how many of you read the students actual writing?
A grade should not depend on a topic for most regards. For instance I should be able to write an essay on how Freud is the biggest idiot the world has seen and recive a high mark if I can be creative, back up my conclusions and be thought provoking. The psych teacher may not be happy I went against her/his vision of Freud, but that's a personal problem that should be ignored.
In the case of a seventh grader I would bet that the most weighted criteria for a grade are grammer related and creativity. The child could write a story on how he and 5 friends get stoned because they pass out and dont have to go home and be beaten... the story grade should not suffer for perspective.
Please note I am not saying that such a young child writing a story like that on his own would not make me raise an eyebrow if I was a teacher, I am talking soley from the grading point of view.
(Also, in this case he was given the topic anyway. A seven year old isn't going to realize political reprocussions. He probably doesn't even know what a political reprocussion is)
This is a gas and brightned my day, but there are some other altercations that could be made for more fun.
/proc (processes) we moved out to /. or /home? Then we could easily create a monster for every file in the directory (or object, i.e. file/folder/link,etc.). Mapping DOOM actions out we would get some fun results
/usr/bin/X11/xterm from going into /home/httpd/cgi-bin/, etc.
(I haven't looked at the patch code so I don't know how this is implemented, so I am taking guesses in the meantime)
What if rather than viewing what is in
Hit points would be equivelent to the file size in K. Thus, you may need team help to kill off those leftover Oracle datafiles or real nasty core files.
Folders would be rooms. Files are monsters that originate in the rooms. Symbolic links would be mapped as teleporters. For extra bonus/worry let the file structure change if the monsters wander into the next room. You will have to heard the sheep, so to speak, to keep
As in the origional, map important files to bigger creatures. EX: make the "last boss" of DOOM mapped to vmlinux.
The only downside to this is that small files will eventually succumb to large ones (like core). But this is ok, because if you leave for a day your employer will realise just how much administration the system needs...
........
The point tweaks can be pointless once you have the tools to map an event in DOOM with a command line script. It's the initial work that is what is to be really commended. Thank you
I think that's what the optical molecule article was about that was on /. awhile back was about. Don't know the link, you'll probably have to search.
Basically, photon hits special molecule giving it energy. Energy causes either reorientation or structural change (like denaturing a protien with light instead of hydronium ions from an acid). The new form/position is optically translucent, whereas before it was opague. Not sure what switched it back to 'off'(opague), it may have just reemmited a photon after a while or whatever.
There is a minimum latency, and that will be the time it takes light to go from one location to the other along a path. In networking, we can view this as the time it takes light to go the distence of the networking cable connecting point A to point B. (This does not count for subspace negative matter wormhole theories and what not--by today's technology).
:)
However the time (latency) is usually much longer than this time, due to many things, such as media conversion (ex: copper to fiber) time, and routing. One thing that is usually a big bottleneck for most of the world is that ISP's make money by overselling their connections. If an ISP has a T3 uplink, then they will make profit by selling 15-20 T1's, or the bandwith equivellent in a modem pool. If all 20 T1's were using their full bandwith load, then the T3 would be swamped, and the router should line up the packets and send them out as it can, putting the extras it can't send ASAP in it's memory (if it's memory becomes full then the packet is usually dropped). This is reflected in your ping time, or latency since the ping packet had to wait in a line to get past the ISP's router.
Since most common dialup ISP's connect to a larger domain-wide ISP which gets its bandwith from a backbone ISP or bandwidth reseller, that's 3 routers that it may have to filter thorugh, causing high latency.
With large-pipe OC (optical cable) then cost of supplying bandwith goes down because of supply and demand (there is now more supply) and ISP's can afford more bandwith for their existing customers without cutting profits (so now you would have say an OC-3 for the 20 T1's which even leaves some breathing room on the cable, I think). Now with the big cable (and hopefully a better router to handle the full OC-3) there will not be a waiting line of packets coming to the router and latency will get closer to theoritical minimum (the speed of light between A and B from above)
Of course the ISP will probably expand and oversell the OC-3, but that's another story
(FYI this is what makes some ISP's better than others: they either don't oversell their lines by as much, have fewer "middleman ISPs", and/or have better hardware (ex: having the router in the case above, with extra memory, etc.)
I believe that it may be a bit rude to ask directly about another product, however I would like to know what possibilities that you believe exist on dynamically stored map/landscape that changes as the game progresses (ex: a rocket blasts a piece of rock from a celing and the rubble crushes someone else and remains a barrier while providing a hole in the celing to the sky and level of the map above). I would also like to know how hard it would be to implement somthing along these lines with respect to programming time and any potential hardware limitations of the current market. Additionally there was a facinating article about a graphics technology that was invented/developing in Austrailia on slashdot a couple days ago that involved 3D imaging I was wondering what you though of this technology from a viability and implementation (if viable) prospective and how it could change both the hardware and software markets for products based on visualization?
If everyone had something else (for example, an antimatter beam), then why would you want something not as powerful as you could have? Most of greed is driven by 2 things: wanting and not having.
Also, nukes are delivered by a slow process of missile, aircraft, ground transport delivery (for all but the smallest). If you had something more powerful OR almost equal and deliverable instantly(ex: orbiting lazer), it would make an ICBM a joke. It would be destroyed before it fully left the silo.
Apple was testing 233 or 266MHz RAM and has it working (accoring to the article) but has not committed to implementing it commertially yet because it is so hard to find. This is just for the G4's also, don't know what's cooking for G5. http://MOSR.com, you will have to look to find the article (may instead have been on appleinsider, I can't remember.
You are correct, it is backward. I sent the webmaster email about it.
From your profile and the messeges you have posted here and in the past, it appears you tend to like to post items in a very flaimbaitish mannor. You may want to employ intellegence and courtesy in future postings.
Other articles do a good job of discussing the claims of the AirPort, so I'm not going to repeat them here.
The article mentioned that the kernal was out in the open, as it has to be. For being so 'open' I can't find it anywhere. Anyone else have any luck?
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