Gigabit fiber is physically smaller than Gigabit copper. Multimode fiber is about the thickness of a human hair. Single mode fiber is about 1/10 the thickness of a human hair. Surprisingly, single-mode fiber can carry more bandwidth for longer distances than multimode.
If you work in an office building, tilt up one of the ceiling tiles and look around. You will probably see bundles of cat-3 and cat-5 cable ranging from the thickness of your leg, to the thickness of an average human's torso. That same bandwidth could run down a single fiber pair with DWDM multiplexers at each end, or OADM taps along the length.
Now, take your two-story office buliding, and stretch it into a 50-story tower in a big city. Copper might be sufficient for ethernet distribution within a single floor. You need fiber to get data from the ground floor to your corner office up on 50.
Now, suppose that gigabit ethernet isn't fast enough. Just change the lasers at each end of your fiber to 10gig lasers. 10Gig Ethernet on the same fiber. Not good enough? Upgrade to 40gig lasers and OC-768. Still not good enough? Add some DWDM gear at each end, and transmit 2.56 Tbits per second down your fiber, for 4000 kilometers.
I understand how getting Taiwan back is a major point of honor for the PRC, and the ROC might have a lot of gold on the island, but I fail to see how actually conducting a war in Taiwan would net the PRC anything.
Ignoring any gold the ROC may be stockpiling, the bulk of Taiwan's value is in its extremely fragile semiconductor industry. Tanks rumbling down the street would probably throw the fabs all out of allignment. Actual combat, particularly morters and rockets, would do further damage. The PRC ends up with an island full of dead people, and a factories full of broken machinery.
Those DVD players cost $40 only because the Chinese government keeps the Yuan artifically pegged at roughly 8 yuan to 1 US Dollar. Floating the currency will bring the ratio up to 4:1, maybe even 2:1.
What they don't admit is that it's going to be nearly impossible to get the damn thing in the socket without letting dust or dirt inbetween the chip and the socket.
You just need to develop an airtight transport and allignment system. There will be some complexity involved.
In a filing to the US market watchdog, Google said it had neglected to register almost 30 million shares and options issued to staff.
It is now offering to buy them back - albeit at prices way below the $108-$135 at which its flotation is set.
Based on the information from Yahoo! News, I calculated that given a total value of $36 billion, and a share price of $108-$135, there must be between 266 million and 333 million shares.
Given that Google can raise a maximum of $3.3 Billion, it must be offering at least 24 million shares.
If it is offering 24 million shares out of a total of 266 million, then it is only offering 9.1 % of the company to the public.
So, google has neglected to properly account for slightly more shares than they plan to offer to the public. And they are offering at a very high starting price.
You must live in Amsterdam or New York City. Los Angeles County had a great public transportation system 100 years ago, but most of it was dismantled when cheap cars were introduced. There is limited public transportation today, but it won't help you get from suburb to subrub.
Proximity sensitive cruise control
Perhaps you'd like to ask the 10 dead people at the farmer's market whether cars should have proximity-sensitive braking?
The most reasonable way to "work out" the privacy issues is to make the black boxes an option.
Not at all. You want black boxes in every car, but you need legal hurdles to prevent the police from downloading the data without your permission. Maybe I'm in the middle of a 15-car pileup, and was driving 80 mph on the freeway segment just before. Although I broke the law on the freeway, my actions were innocent on the city street where the pileup occurred. I'd like to reveal the data relevant to the pileup in order to secure my innocence and insurance claim. And I'd like to invoke my right to not self-incriminate for the freeway segment.
The privacy issues need to be worked out, but black boxes are the next real step towards fully autonomous vehicles. We've got great nav systems, and proximity sensitive cruise control (on the super luxury cars). Next we need a good account system for the cars (black box) for precisely tracking location. then we need high res tracking and freeway data. After that, we can sit back, play doom 3, and let the computer drive us to work.
I would like to offer my web-portal development services to investors from around the world. Any group that would like a lycos-like portal may nominate a lead investor and make a $100,000 (USD) non-refundable deposit into my numbered swiss bank account. Upon receipt of funds, I will entertain your request for a Lycos-like site. I am confident that I can deliver Lycos-like functionality for merely $50M (USD). Additional features may require additional cost. After the evaluation period, I will select the team whose request is the best combination of feasible and practical.
Don't delay, even as you read this post, Korean investors are leaping ahead of you with their new Lycos portal. Be the first in your country to have your very own Web Portal. Operators are standing by!
Try using the long power cable that came with your power supply. You will find that it plugs very nicely into power outlets, and does not obscure the plug below it.
In Soviet Russia; a beowulf cluster of these imagines you, insensitive clod!
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Also, even after fall, Red Hat trades at 133 P/E, which is way overvalued even for this sector (MSFT, for example, is at 40.59).
RedHat is an open-source oriented technology company. Microsoft is a cash heavy mutual fund with broad investment across the technology industry. Redhat's multiple reflects investors optimism in RedHat's volatility and future business potential. Microsoft's lower multiple reflects its more stable and mature business model.
I've been developing some analysis software for the last few months. I'm nearly code-complete but have been vexed by several issues. In particular, I've been wondering how I can bring my software to systems that are routinely rootkitted by script kiddies. Thanks to SFU, I can finally deliver software with the Quality that Windows users Expect.
(1) Look at the Samsung 213T. 19", 1600x1200, 500:1 contrast ratio, $1190. Alternately, grab an old Apple 22" DVI Cinema Display. 1600x1024, wide aspect, usually $1000. Still an excellent display after five years. Better than many 3 year old CRTs.
(2) bandwidth is expensive, webservers are slow, and there is no practical way to prevent content theft. Also, high-res stock photography is significantly more expensive than the low-res stuff.
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Gigabit fiber is physically smaller than Gigabit copper. Multimode fiber is about the thickness of a human hair. Single mode fiber is about 1/10 the thickness of a human hair. Surprisingly, single-mode fiber can carry more bandwidth for longer distances than multimode.
If you work in an office building, tilt up one of the ceiling tiles and look around. You will probably see bundles of cat-3 and cat-5 cable ranging from the thickness of your leg, to the thickness of an average human's torso. That same bandwidth could run down a single fiber pair with DWDM multiplexers at each end, or OADM taps along the length.
Now, take your two-story office buliding, and stretch it into a 50-story tower in a big city. Copper might be sufficient for ethernet distribution within a single floor. You need fiber to get data from the ground floor to your corner office up on 50.
Now, suppose that gigabit ethernet isn't fast enough. Just change the lasers at each end of your fiber to 10gig lasers. 10Gig Ethernet on the same fiber. Not good enough? Upgrade to 40gig lasers and OC-768. Still not good enough? Add some DWDM gear at each end, and transmit 2.56 Tbits per second down your fiber, for 4000 kilometers.
First we need to perfect the Flux Capacitor. *Then* we need Mr. Fusion to power it.
I understand how getting Taiwan back is a major point of honor for the PRC, and the ROC might have a lot of gold on the island, but I fail to see how actually conducting a war in Taiwan would net the PRC anything.
Ignoring any gold the ROC may be stockpiling, the bulk of Taiwan's value is in its extremely fragile semiconductor industry. Tanks rumbling down the street would probably throw the fabs all out of allignment. Actual combat, particularly morters and rockets, would do further damage. The PRC ends up with an island full of dead people, and a factories full of broken machinery.
What am I missing?
Those DVD players cost $40 only because the Chinese government keeps the Yuan artifically pegged at roughly 8 yuan to 1 US Dollar. Floating the currency will bring the ratio up to 4:1, maybe even 2:1.
Your internet license should be taken away if you don't use one-time-pads for passwords.
Will North Korea be allowed to enter?
What they don't admit is that it's going to be nearly impossible to get the damn thing in the socket without letting dust or dirt inbetween the chip and the socket.
You just need to develop an airtight transport and allignment system. There will be some complexity involved.
what craigslist ads do you pay for?
Or am I just on the A-list no-pay-filter and don't even know it?
In a filing to the US market watchdog, Google said it had neglected to register almost 30 million shares and options issued to staff.
It is now offering to buy them back - albeit at prices way below the $108-$135 at which its flotation is set.
Based on the information from Yahoo! News, I calculated that given a total value of $36 billion, and a share price of $108-$135, there must be between 266 million and 333 million shares.
Given that Google can raise a maximum of $3.3 Billion, it must be offering at least 24 million shares.
If it is offering 24 million shares out of a total of 266 million, then it is only offering 9.1 % of the company to the public.
So, google has neglected to properly account for slightly more shares than they plan to offer to the public. And they are offering at a very high starting price.
All while Doing No Evil.
Mr. Brin, Mr. Page, Meet Mr. Gates. I'm sure you three will have a lot to talk about!
there are city buses, trains, street cars
You must live in Amsterdam or New York City. Los Angeles County had a great public transportation system 100 years ago, but most of it was dismantled when cheap cars were introduced. There is limited public transportation today, but it won't help you get from suburb to subrub.
Proximity sensitive cruise control
Perhaps you'd like to ask the 10 dead people at the farmer's market whether cars should have proximity-sensitive braking?
The most reasonable way to "work out" the privacy issues is to make the black boxes an option.
Not at all. You want black boxes in every car, but you need legal hurdles to prevent the police from downloading the data without your permission. Maybe I'm in the middle of a 15-car pileup, and was driving 80 mph on the freeway segment just before. Although I broke the law on the freeway, my actions were innocent on the city street where the pileup occurred. I'd like to reveal the data relevant to the pileup in order to secure my innocence and insurance claim. And I'd like to invoke my right to not self-incriminate for the freeway segment.
The privacy issues need to be worked out, but black boxes are the next real step towards fully autonomous vehicles. We've got great nav systems, and proximity sensitive cruise control (on the super luxury cars). Next we need a good account system for the cars (black box) for precisely tracking location. then we need high res tracking and freeway data. After that, we can sit back, play doom 3, and let the computer drive us to work.
Good afternoon,
I would like to offer my web-portal development services to investors from around the world. Any group that would like a lycos-like portal may nominate a lead investor and make a $100,000 (USD) non-refundable deposit into my numbered swiss bank account. Upon receipt of funds, I will entertain your request for a Lycos-like site. I am confident that I can deliver Lycos-like functionality for merely $50M (USD). Additional features may require additional cost. After the evaluation period, I will select the team whose request is the best combination of feasible and practical.
Don't delay, even as you read this post, Korean investors are leaping ahead of you with their new Lycos portal. Be the first in your country to have your very own Web Portal. Operators are standing by!
Try using the long power cable that came with your power supply. You will find that it plugs very nicely into power outlets, and does not obscure the plug below it.
In Soviet Russia; a beowulf cluster of these imagines you, insensitive clod!
Also, even after fall, Red Hat trades at 133 P/E, which is way overvalued even for this sector (MSFT, for example, is at 40.59).
RedHat is an open-source oriented technology company. Microsoft is a cash heavy mutual fund with broad investment across the technology industry. Redhat's multiple reflects investors optimism in RedHat's volatility and future business potential. Microsoft's lower multiple reflects its more stable and mature business model.
Put in other terms, Microsoft is as much like Redhat as Boeing is like Scaled Composites.
Now is a good time to make sure you have a local mirror of fedora.
If this could prevent child-napping, yes I'd put one on my kids.
I enjoyed nap-time as a child. As an adult, I continue to enjoy the occasional nap. Must we really deprive the children of their naps?
I really can't understand why Americans fight to keep their complicated, quirky and backward system
On the contrary, now is the perfect time for the US to use the imperial system.
Check with the google
3% of google hits are from macintoshes, 1% from Linux boxes. Other unixes aren't significant enough to register.
I've been developing some analysis software for the last few months. I'm nearly code-complete but have been vexed by several issues. In particular, I've been wondering how I can bring my software to systems that are routinely rootkitted by script kiddies. Thanks to SFU, I can finally deliver software with the Quality that Windows users Expect.
High techs *love* co-ops and interns. It is like paying people with stock options, except you don't have to worry about the share dilution.
...I have to question Microsoft's $7 billion expenditure on R&D.
I guess you haven't heard of Microsoft's Friday Beer Bashes?
(1) Look at the Samsung 213T. 19", 1600x1200, 500:1 contrast ratio, $1190. Alternately, grab an old Apple 22" DVI Cinema Display. 1600x1024, wide aspect, usually $1000. Still an excellent display after five years. Better than many 3 year old CRTs.
(2) bandwidth is expensive, webservers are slow, and there is no practical way to prevent content theft. Also, high-res stock photography is significantly more expensive than the low-res stuff.