The root servers are run by a US corporation that is subject to US law. So in a very real international sense the US does run the root servers. Just because our method of governance on the issue is private rather than public does not change the ultimate authority in the matter.
Let me guess...You're from France right? Well, in the US, the government doesn't run the corporations, the corporations run the government. In any case, ICANN is merely responsible for keeping track of names and numbers on the net. Hence the name, "Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers". This is not something that requires corupt multinational organizational (e.g. the UN) oversight. It requires a few sys admins and maybe a manager or two. I really don't see what kind of representation you want here?
Actually, I use Comcast and I have been pretty much happy with their service. But if you think Comcast is beurocratic and messed up, imagine the UN being your isp. They would probably raise your rates by 50% to fund Kofi Annan's son's retirement fund.
Hey, given the US track record with wartime no-bid contracts for corporations with incestuous ties to government, and the US track record with prisoner abuse, I don't want the US anywhere near the net.
Did I ever say anything about the US government "running" the internet? No...I would oppose that too. My point is.....Why do we need beurocracy to get involved here? The internet works fine.
What about the internet needs saving? It seems to be working fine for me thank you very much. Why do we need the UN to come in and "save the internet". Giving their track record with the Oil for food program and peace keepers raping innocent Africans, I don't want the UN anywhere near the net.
This is the purpose of the instruction cache and data cache. I'm almost positive each core has one, so it can access both instructions and data that's used frequently without going to the bus.
Well, the truth is AJAX is not in Microsoft's best interest. The internet in general is bad for Microsoft. They were way into interactive TV and stuff. They really would prefer that they be the gateway to the web and that you pay $$$ to them to be able to get the content as well as selling their OS. AJAX makes windows less relevant because you can run apps on firefox on any platform. So, I can understand why they wouldn't use much of it. However, as always denying a good technology is a mistake. You can see this as a form of protectionism that backfired on them.
Also, if you rtfa, this is not what you might expect. This system allows up to 32 wireless repeaters to connect to a wired connection point. Not so impressive actually given that wireless repeaters already exist (some made out of lamp shades). It's not something that you can have on your laptop and communicate with your neighbor's laptop and thus share internet connections. As you've pointed out, that would be cool.
This rooftop access point uses 802.11a to link up to 32 Aironet 1500 lightweight mesh access points
Ok, first of all you have to connect to this central system that links to 32 remote systems. I'm not positive, but it doesn't even look like the remote systems (called Aironet 1500's) can communicate with each other. I thought the whole concept of mesh networks is having large number of users able to connect to one another. This seems more like an extension cord to your central connection point that can link to up to 32 repeaters. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
The key point is that congress shall have power to do this. What they actually do is determined by other Federal Laws. So, given that there is a well established body of law with regards to patents, copyrights, and trademarks, I wouldn't call it flimsy. That's like saying that the second amendment is flimsy because it doesn't discuss WMDs. There are other laws that adress that, but the concept is clear -- you have the right to bear arms.
I'd have thought it was quite obvious that both were based pretty closely on UNIX
Well, yes, it's obvious that both use fundamental concepts that were derived from UNIX, but they were not written off an existing codebase of UNIX. If your question is: "When's the last time anybody wrote an OS from scratch without using operating system concepts derived from other systems?", I'd say that has never and will never happen. Even Windows uses concepts originated in UNIX. For instance, Windows has a file system, that concept had already been implemented in UNIX, windows has a memory management unit, that was in UNIX, windows the concept of process scheduling, that was in UNIX. This does not mean that Windows was based off of UNIX. I'm sure if you analyze this new Singularity OS, there are features from Windows, UNIX, etc.
From the article: "The layoffs will be more about resource allocation,"
Enough with this PC stuff. Why can't they just say, something like, "We don't have the budget to sustain 5800 salarys, so we're laying off X people."? There is something to be said for Candor from executives.
Well, by letting them know who you are there are actually several benefits:
1.) Better search results - For instance if you search for oranges, pears, melons and then search for apple, you'll probably find the fruit. But if you search for ipod, itunes, and OS X and then search for apple, you'll probably get computer company results.
2.) By letting them know who you are, you _will_ click on more ads. This causes google to get more money and continue to develop free stuff. Like google wifi and google earth. These are cool things and I hope Google continues to make more and more money so that they can re-invest into these technologies.
It sounds like the company that was attacked by the bloggers was exposed for what it was...a lot of hype. Also, this is nothing new to blogging. There have been pumpers and haterz in the stock community since the begining. If you read the books about Jesse Livermore (who traded in the early 1900s), the used to have tout sheets all over the place. I don't see why they want to blame bloggers for this one.
Forrester Research, for example, predicted in August that broadband Internet access alone will more than double this decade, reaching 71 million U.S. households in 2010.
This seems pretty conservative. With technologies like Wi-Max and Wi-Fi, and google rolling this out for free, I would imagine that almost everyone would have broadband access by 2010.
If the number of transistors on the chip doubles every 18 months, it seems pretty logical that the power consumption and heat output would increase similarly.
I suppose it could be logical, but it's not true. If you're looking at power consumption per transistor, the number has gone way down. The reason total power consumption has gone up not because of any moore's law stuff, it has to do with the fact that the chip companies were willing to trade power consumption for performance. As power consumption becomes increasingly an issue, this will change and they will design chips that are more power efficient overall. I believe we will see a split. Servers will continue to use more power, and laptops will become more and more power efficient because people care more about battery life than processing speed since their processing is done increasingly over the web.
Ok, Ok, you got me. The comparison should have been to an earlier Silicon based computer. Unfortunatly, I can't come up with a name off the top of my head. But the point is the same.
"It's the other side of Moore's Law," Sneider said. "As the cost of [buying] these machines decreases, the cost of powering and cooling them increases."
I don't agree with this. How power efficient was Eniac? Also, my laptop lasts much longer the one I had a few years back. I think we're making progress on the power front, but the demand for computing power is attracting more and more dollars, the power cost is largely insignificant with regards to the return on investment.
Articles like this show that the people making laws do not understand what their talking about. It's very easy to encrypt your data (including voice conversations). If the US decides that all VOIP should be tapable/unencrypted, the bad guys can use a service based in a foreign country that doesn't force phone taps. They can then communicate. Or better yet, they can develop their own software to encrypt phone calls and would anyone notice? No way, it would just sounds like static or something. Sorry guys, but there's no way to block people from encrypting stuff and keeping their keys locked safely in their own possession. Unless of course, you make encryption illegal, which would be difficult to do, because the privacy hounds would never let something like that happen.
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The root servers are run by a US corporation that is subject to US law. So in a very real international sense the US does run the root servers. Just because our method of governance on the issue is private rather than public does not change the ultimate authority in the matter.
Let me guess...You're from France right? Well, in the US, the government doesn't run the corporations, the corporations run the government. In any case, ICANN is merely responsible for keeping track of names and numbers on the net. Hence the name, "Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers". This is not something that requires corupt multinational organizational (e.g. the UN) oversight. It requires a few sys admins and maybe a manager or two. I really don't see what kind of representation you want here?
Actually, I use Comcast and I have been pretty much happy with their service. But if you think Comcast is beurocratic and messed up, imagine the UN being your isp. They would probably raise your rates by 50% to fund Kofi Annan's son's retirement fund.
Hey, given the US track record with wartime no-bid contracts for corporations with incestuous ties to government, and the US track record with prisoner abuse, I don't want the US anywhere near the net.
Did I ever say anything about the US government "running" the internet? No...I would oppose that too. My point is.....Why do we need beurocracy to get involved here? The internet works fine.
What about the internet needs saving? It seems to be working fine for me thank you very much. Why do we need the UN to come in and "save the internet". Giving their track record with the Oil for food program and peace keepers raping innocent Africans, I don't want the UN anywhere near the net.
This is the purpose of the instruction cache and data cache. I'm almost positive each core has one, so it can access both instructions and data that's used frequently without going to the bus.
Well, the truth is AJAX is not in Microsoft's best interest. The internet in general is bad for Microsoft. They were way into interactive TV and stuff. They really would prefer that they be the gateway to the web and that you pay $$$ to them to be able to get the content as well as selling their OS. AJAX makes windows less relevant because you can run apps on firefox on any platform. So, I can understand why they wouldn't use much of it. However, as always denying a good technology is a mistake. You can see this as a form of protectionism that backfired on them.
Also, if you rtfa, this is not what you might expect. This system allows up to 32 wireless repeaters to connect to a wired connection point. Not so impressive actually given that wireless repeaters already exist (some made out of lamp shades). It's not something that you can have on your laptop and communicate with your neighbor's laptop and thus share internet connections. As you've pointed out, that would be cool.
This rooftop access point uses 802.11a to link up to 32 Aironet 1500 lightweight mesh access points
Ok, first of all you have to connect to this central system that links to 32 remote systems. I'm not positive, but it doesn't even look like the remote systems (called Aironet 1500's) can communicate with each other. I thought the whole concept of mesh networks is having large number of users able to connect to one another. This seems more like an extension cord to your central connection point that can link to up to 32 repeaters. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Ever heard of Lights Out Management? It would be pretty important for this sucker. You might even need a LOM for your LOM.
The key point is that congress shall have power to do this. What they actually do is determined by other Federal Laws. So, given that there is a well established body of law with regards to patents, copyrights, and trademarks, I wouldn't call it flimsy. That's like saying that the second amendment is flimsy because it doesn't discuss WMDs. There are other laws that adress that, but the concept is clear -- you have the right to bear arms.
Hmm, what's better...being refered to as a resource or a headcount?
I'd have thought it was quite obvious that both were based pretty closely on UNIX
Well, yes, it's obvious that both use fundamental concepts that were derived from UNIX, but they were not written off an existing codebase of UNIX. If your question is: "When's the last time anybody wrote an OS from scratch without using operating system concepts derived from other systems?", I'd say that has never and will never happen. Even Windows uses concepts originated in UNIX. For instance, Windows has a file system, that concept had already been implemented in UNIX, windows has a memory management unit, that was in UNIX, windows the concept of process scheduling, that was in UNIX. This does not mean that Windows was based off of UNIX. I'm sure if you analyze this new Singularity OS, there are features from Windows, UNIX, etc.
Better question: when's the last time anybody wrote an OS from scratch?
Minix and Linux
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From the article: "The layoffs will be more about resource allocation,"
Enough with this PC stuff. Why can't they just say, something like, "We don't have the budget to sustain 5800 salarys, so we're laying off X people."? There is something to be said for Candor from executives.
I mean really.
Well, by letting them know who you are there are actually several benefits:
1.) Better search results - For instance if you search for oranges, pears, melons and then search for apple, you'll probably find the fruit. But if you search for ipod, itunes, and OS X and then search for apple, you'll probably get computer company results.
2.) By letting them know who you are, you _will_ click on more ads. This causes google to get more money and continue to develop free stuff. Like google wifi and google earth. These are cool things and I hope Google continues to make more and more money so that they can re-invest into these technologies.
Well, my co-worker has one on his desk that's been open for months.
Oh, and I know they only cost $20 sans P/S but they also forgot a case. Idiots.
Who needs a case? See?
It sounds like the company that was attacked by the bloggers was exposed for what it was...a lot of hype. Also, this is nothing new to blogging. There have been pumpers and haterz in the stock community since the begining. If you read the books about Jesse Livermore (who traded in the early 1900s), the used to have tout sheets all over the place. I don't see why they want to blame bloggers for this one.
Their sign in page!
Forrester Research, for example, predicted in August that broadband Internet access alone will more than double this decade, reaching 71 million U.S. households in 2010.
This seems pretty conservative. With technologies like Wi-Max and Wi-Fi, and google rolling this out for free, I would imagine that almost everyone would have broadband access by 2010.
If the number of transistors on the chip doubles every 18 months, it seems pretty logical that the power consumption and heat output would increase similarly.
I suppose it could be logical, but it's not true. If you're looking at power consumption per transistor, the number has gone way down. The reason total power consumption has gone up not because of any moore's law stuff, it has to do with the fact that the chip companies were willing to trade power consumption for performance. As power consumption becomes increasingly an issue, this will change and they will design chips that are more power efficient overall. I believe we will see a split. Servers will continue to use more power, and laptops will become more and more power efficient because people care more about battery life than processing speed since their processing is done increasingly over the web.
Ok, Ok, you got me. The comparison should have been to an earlier Silicon based computer. Unfortunatly, I can't come up with a name off the top of my head. But the point is the same.
"It's the other side of Moore's Law," Sneider said. "As the cost of [buying] these machines decreases, the cost of powering and cooling them increases."
I don't agree with this. How power efficient was Eniac? Also, my laptop lasts much longer the one I had a few years back. I think we're making progress on the power front, but the demand for computing power is attracting more and more dollars, the power cost is largely insignificant with regards to the return on investment.
Articles like this show that the people making laws do not understand what their talking about. It's very easy to encrypt your data (including voice conversations). If the US decides that all VOIP should be tapable/unencrypted, the bad guys can use a service based in a foreign country that doesn't force phone taps. They can then communicate. Or better yet, they can develop their own software to encrypt phone calls and would anyone notice? No way, it would just sounds like static or something. Sorry guys, but there's no way to block people from encrypting stuff and keeping their keys locked safely in their own possession. Unless of course, you make encryption illegal, which would be difficult to do, because the privacy hounds would never let something like that happen.