Sprint owns 51% of Clearwire. All of the "4G" services Sprint offers use the Clearwire network. Keep in mind that this is WiMax, and not really 4G, but because they sold it before 4G was a standard, they can continue to advertise as such.
Rumors are of a deal between Sprint, T-Mobile, and Clearwire regarding 4G, so I suspect something significant to come of this soon, probably for the worse (for the consumer) and for the better for the beleaguered business deal.
His writing infuriates me.
I love the story, I love the depth, and I love how complex it is.
What drives me crazy is that he will go on to describe a single meal over the course of 20 pages, yet he will kill off a main character in a few random sentences. The man clearly loves his food.
-W
Last I heard, Cheney and Rumsfeld are still at large. If the government isn't going to do anything about the people responsible for crashing passenger jets into buildings in NYC, why the fuck would they care about an RC plane?
To just use the domestic pipelines we have to deliver gasoline instead? The infrastructure is already there. I see two ways this could work: We could use slugs (like the kind used to clean the pipelines, but hallow) as canisters, or, even better (since this is the US), just replace the gasoline with high-fructose corn syrup and then it could just be processed into whatever fab crap the plebes are eating at the time when it comes out the other end?
I remember watching shows about the future warrior or OCIW system that this is based on. From what I remember, the rounds only burst at exactly the distance they are programmed for, so in all likelyhood, collateral damage would be less because you're not going to get any rounds "missing" and going through walls, or downrange from the target where innocents might be holed up. While I see your point, the end result may be a wash. Until humanity can evolve beyond greed and desire to accumulate wealth, there is going to be war. People die in war. War is SUPPOSED to be horrible, not neat and clean. It is exactly the horrible nature of war that prevents it from occurring more often then it does. The problem with US tech is that it tries to make war neat and clean, and this is exactly why the US causes more wars then any other nation. If we still had to rely on carpet bombing instead of smart bombs and drones, you can bet that we'd have fewer armed conflicts.
-W
There are tons of weapons now, some even based on the M4 type receiver, that fire 6.5mm grendel rounds, which are as effective as 7.62 Nato without the weight and recoil.
Unfortunately, the weapons the US military chooses to deploy have everything to do with politics and nothing to do with technology. The OICW was a great weapon system that suffered from scope-creep, and in the end the battery and tech cost of the day in addition to the fact that they wanted the damn thing to do everything killed it. There were other XM, SCAR, and MR programs that suffered the same fate. . . most have to do with the fact that the best technologies are from other countries and the politicians want the weapons to be home-grown, sourced in 15 different states, ect.
In the end, the most effective killing machine is a red-cheeked US politician, the actual weapons are just apendages.
-W
What is the benefit to society to fight obesity or cancer?
Right now, treating the symptoms that those diseases create is a great financial boon to society. Until we figure out that money is meaningless, then we will continue to do whatever makes money.
Security makes more money then liberty.
Money money money.
To Verizon's benefit?
Verizon has a better network, but that network will crumble under an onslaught of additional smartphone users. What may be Verizon's benefit will not be the benefit of their customers, who, right now, only stay because of the network.
The iphone will be the equalizer of mediocrity.
-W
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Modern routers are actually switches, not routers. They use packet based switching, not processor based routing like their ancient predecessors. Hell even Cisco tried to fix this when they introduced the GSR (gigabit switch/routers) late last century.
It is really "how" these devices direct traffic from one port to the next that defines what they "are", not what OSI layer they operate at. That said, it's still easier for people to understand using the old-school nomenclature.
Is there even an option to purchase a "high quality" motherboard, or any computer components for that matter? Cheap mass-produced goods abound in many types of products, however there are usually options. I can buy a cheap Korean car or guitar, but I might choose not to, paying a premium for an item designed and assembled in Germany, the US, or even Japan. I realize that it's very expensive to produce electronics in the US, and environmental laws make it highly unlikely to happen here, but it seems there would be a strong niche market for "computerphile" goods given how damned cheap the mass produced junk is these days. I'd rather pay a premium for a high-quality home-produced video card based on last years model, then pay a premium for the "latest and greatest" mass produced piece of Chinese junk. Am I alone here?
It is horrific, but I believe it is necessary.
"Intelligent" people breed far less then "unintelligent" people do. Since we're all striving towards democracy, this can only mean the collective devolution and dumbing down of our society (one only need to look at the last few US elections to see this).
As horrific as it may be, the only way to keep this from happening is to indeed introduce some means of population control.
Why not keep the uninterested and unqualified parents out of the process at the same time? We spade and neuter our pets after all, why not our peers?
-W
It seems like this is all just an attempt to deal with the symptoms of the original cause, which is unqualified parents.
We require licenses and tests to be able to drive or fly. Licenses to fish or check out library books, yet we allow any drone or sheep-person to enter into the commitment to raise and rear a human being for the next 18 years without so much as a second glance.
This is like trying to clean up pollution while hawking hummers to every soccer mom.
-W
Ever consider that there is no point to the music "industry" in this day and age?
Perhaps consumers are finally wising up and no longer wish to consume anything that Viacom or Clearchannel tells them to consume?
With the plethora of independent artists who have figured out how to create, record, promote, and profit from their art without the big fat overhead of a traditional record company, the truth of the matter is that there is just not any need for the "industry" anymore.
The product that the industry has been putting out only caters to the least common denominator of society. Perhaps the world is just realizing that people really aren't as sheep-like as the labels wished they were (at least outside Dumbfuckistan).
-W
My wife saw it for the first time in a Fry's recently. Her response was probably the most accurate description I've heard.
"Oh, so that's what the fuss is about? It's just Dance Dance Revolution for middle-age men".
Now, I admit, I play guitar as a hobby in a band that gigs on weekends, and never "got it" as to why people like playing guitar hero. However, I do play occasionally when they're playing the game. I do profess to sucking at guitar hero.
-W
Um, Darwin awards? Unfortunately, criminals are still allowed to procreate and spread their genes. So unless he's either dead or rendered an eunuch, we're still screwed.
-W
Excellent, post, and you are absolutely correct.
The reason it all falls apart has to do with the concept of currency and greed.
As a species, it is natural for us to benefit from the knowledge of our peers and those who came before us.
As capitalists, it is fitting that we receive monetary gain from our time.
Do away with the concept of money, and you fix a lot of problems.
-W
Think about it, here's the chance for Microsoft to actually sell this crap OS.
Release DX10 for XP, make sure it runs slower then on vista, and viola, gamers, with all their wisdom (okay not really), will switch to Vista, because it's "faster" and has better "benchmarks".
-W
During the dot.com bust I worked on a particular large metro rapid-transit expansion project doing systems integration testing. All I can say is that I was both amazed, dumbfounded, and terrified at what I was able to accomplish both from a terminal, and dialing in remotely through the SCADA systems.
Don't get me wrong, there's no remote control of trains or anything I can think of that would be particularly explosive, but one could defiantly give the illusion of such, and defiantly destroy some 14KV systems in the process.
Um, so what?
Have you seen global population numbers recently? We have plenty of spare people scattered about, using up carbon and oxygen. Who cares if a few million burn up trying to get to space?
It's still worth it in the end, when our genetically superior bio-android overlords (with laser eyes and dorsal fins) have civilizations on other plants, perhaps they'll erect a monument lamenting the loss of those who went down in flames.
-W
The whole "shared bandwidth" thing is a legacy misnomer when it comes to cable. Cable bandwidth is no more or less shared then DSL is these days.
In the early days of cable internet service, the first CMTS systems were nothing more then giant bridges (lancity) and you did indeed share the bandwidth (and broadcast traffic) of everyone else on the network. This is where the whole public wives tale comes from.
These days, systems are all docsis and you have dedicated QAM bandwidth to the CMTS device. After that, bandwidth is shared, just as it is on the rest of the internet, on whatever ingress/egress link your cable system has to their backbone, upstream providers, and peering points.
We need solutions like this because there are too many people on the road.
Perhaps if we stopped supporting legislation that keeps more people on the roads, like crash testing and seat belts, we wouldn't need so many solutions.
Stop voting for people who support legislation that keeps stupid people from killing themselves.
-W
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Sprint owns 51% of Clearwire. All of the "4G" services Sprint offers use the Clearwire network. Keep in mind that this is WiMax, and not really 4G, but because they sold it before 4G was a standard, they can continue to advertise as such. Rumors are of a deal between Sprint, T-Mobile, and Clearwire regarding 4G, so I suspect something significant to come of this soon, probably for the worse (for the consumer) and for the better for the beleaguered business deal.
His writing infuriates me. I love the story, I love the depth, and I love how complex it is. What drives me crazy is that he will go on to describe a single meal over the course of 20 pages, yet he will kill off a main character in a few random sentences. The man clearly loves his food. -W
Last I heard, Cheney and Rumsfeld are still at large. If the government isn't going to do anything about the people responsible for crashing passenger jets into buildings in NYC, why the fuck would they care about an RC plane?
To just use the domestic pipelines we have to deliver gasoline instead? The infrastructure is already there. I see two ways this could work: We could use slugs (like the kind used to clean the pipelines, but hallow) as canisters, or, even better (since this is the US), just replace the gasoline with high-fructose corn syrup and then it could just be processed into whatever fab crap the plebes are eating at the time when it comes out the other end?
I remember watching shows about the future warrior or OCIW system that this is based on. From what I remember, the rounds only burst at exactly the distance they are programmed for, so in all likelyhood, collateral damage would be less because you're not going to get any rounds "missing" and going through walls, or downrange from the target where innocents might be holed up. While I see your point, the end result may be a wash. Until humanity can evolve beyond greed and desire to accumulate wealth, there is going to be war. People die in war. War is SUPPOSED to be horrible, not neat and clean. It is exactly the horrible nature of war that prevents it from occurring more often then it does. The problem with US tech is that it tries to make war neat and clean, and this is exactly why the US causes more wars then any other nation. If we still had to rely on carpet bombing instead of smart bombs and drones, you can bet that we'd have fewer armed conflicts. -W
There are tons of weapons now, some even based on the M4 type receiver, that fire 6.5mm grendel rounds, which are as effective as 7.62 Nato without the weight and recoil. Unfortunately, the weapons the US military chooses to deploy have everything to do with politics and nothing to do with technology. The OICW was a great weapon system that suffered from scope-creep, and in the end the battery and tech cost of the day in addition to the fact that they wanted the damn thing to do everything killed it. There were other XM, SCAR, and MR programs that suffered the same fate. . . most have to do with the fact that the best technologies are from other countries and the politicians want the weapons to be home-grown, sourced in 15 different states, ect. In the end, the most effective killing machine is a red-cheeked US politician, the actual weapons are just apendages. -W
What is the benefit to society to fight obesity or cancer? Right now, treating the symptoms that those diseases create is a great financial boon to society. Until we figure out that money is meaningless, then we will continue to do whatever makes money. Security makes more money then liberty. Money money money.
To Verizon's benefit? Verizon has a better network, but that network will crumble under an onslaught of additional smartphone users. What may be Verizon's benefit will not be the benefit of their customers, who, right now, only stay because of the network. The iphone will be the equalizer of mediocrity. -W
Try not writing boring software?
Modern routers are actually switches, not routers. They use packet based switching, not processor based routing like their ancient predecessors. Hell even Cisco tried to fix this when they introduced the GSR (gigabit switch/routers) late last century. It is really "how" these devices direct traffic from one port to the next that defines what they "are", not what OSI layer they operate at. That said, it's still easier for people to understand using the old-school nomenclature.
Most laws are generally a bad thing. Supporting something just because it is "a law" is sheeple behavior. Question everything.
Is there even an option to purchase a "high quality" motherboard, or any computer components for that matter? Cheap mass-produced goods abound in many types of products, however there are usually options. I can buy a cheap Korean car or guitar, but I might choose not to, paying a premium for an item designed and assembled in Germany, the US, or even Japan. I realize that it's very expensive to produce electronics in the US, and environmental laws make it highly unlikely to happen here, but it seems there would be a strong niche market for "computerphile" goods given how damned cheap the mass produced junk is these days. I'd rather pay a premium for a high-quality home-produced video card based on last years model, then pay a premium for the "latest and greatest" mass produced piece of Chinese junk. Am I alone here?
It is horrific, but I believe it is necessary. "Intelligent" people breed far less then "unintelligent" people do. Since we're all striving towards democracy, this can only mean the collective devolution and dumbing down of our society (one only need to look at the last few US elections to see this). As horrific as it may be, the only way to keep this from happening is to indeed introduce some means of population control. Why not keep the uninterested and unqualified parents out of the process at the same time? We spade and neuter our pets after all, why not our peers? -W
It seems like this is all just an attempt to deal with the symptoms of the original cause, which is unqualified parents. We require licenses and tests to be able to drive or fly. Licenses to fish or check out library books, yet we allow any drone or sheep-person to enter into the commitment to raise and rear a human being for the next 18 years without so much as a second glance. This is like trying to clean up pollution while hawking hummers to every soccer mom. -W
Or it's just all the crap that failed their already abysmal QC
Ever consider that there is no point to the music "industry" in this day and age? Perhaps consumers are finally wising up and no longer wish to consume anything that Viacom or Clearchannel tells them to consume? With the plethora of independent artists who have figured out how to create, record, promote, and profit from their art without the big fat overhead of a traditional record company, the truth of the matter is that there is just not any need for the "industry" anymore. The product that the industry has been putting out only caters to the least common denominator of society. Perhaps the world is just realizing that people really aren't as sheep-like as the labels wished they were (at least outside Dumbfuckistan). -W
Don't they watch their own movies in Japan? They know how this is going to end! Egad.
My wife saw it for the first time in a Fry's recently. Her response was probably the most accurate description I've heard. "Oh, so that's what the fuss is about? It's just Dance Dance Revolution for middle-age men". Now, I admit, I play guitar as a hobby in a band that gigs on weekends, and never "got it" as to why people like playing guitar hero. However, I do play occasionally when they're playing the game. I do profess to sucking at guitar hero. -W
Um, Darwin awards? Unfortunately, criminals are still allowed to procreate and spread their genes. So unless he's either dead or rendered an eunuch, we're still screwed. -W
Excellent, post, and you are absolutely correct. The reason it all falls apart has to do with the concept of currency and greed. As a species, it is natural for us to benefit from the knowledge of our peers and those who came before us. As capitalists, it is fitting that we receive monetary gain from our time. Do away with the concept of money, and you fix a lot of problems. -W
Think about it, here's the chance for Microsoft to actually sell this crap OS. Release DX10 for XP, make sure it runs slower then on vista, and viola, gamers, with all their wisdom (okay not really), will switch to Vista, because it's "faster" and has better "benchmarks". -W
During the dot.com bust I worked on a particular large metro rapid-transit expansion project doing systems integration testing. All I can say is that I was both amazed, dumbfounded, and terrified at what I was able to accomplish both from a terminal, and dialing in remotely through the SCADA systems. Don't get me wrong, there's no remote control of trains or anything I can think of that would be particularly explosive, but one could defiantly give the illusion of such, and defiantly destroy some 14KV systems in the process.
Um, so what? Have you seen global population numbers recently? We have plenty of spare people scattered about, using up carbon and oxygen. Who cares if a few million burn up trying to get to space? It's still worth it in the end, when our genetically superior bio-android overlords (with laser eyes and dorsal fins) have civilizations on other plants, perhaps they'll erect a monument lamenting the loss of those who went down in flames. -W
The whole "shared bandwidth" thing is a legacy misnomer when it comes to cable. Cable bandwidth is no more or less shared then DSL is these days. In the early days of cable internet service, the first CMTS systems were nothing more then giant bridges (lancity) and you did indeed share the bandwidth (and broadcast traffic) of everyone else on the network. This is where the whole public wives tale comes from. These days, systems are all docsis and you have dedicated QAM bandwidth to the CMTS device. After that, bandwidth is shared, just as it is on the rest of the internet, on whatever ingress/egress link your cable system has to their backbone, upstream providers, and peering points.
We need solutions like this because there are too many people on the road. Perhaps if we stopped supporting legislation that keeps more people on the roads, like crash testing and seat belts, we wouldn't need so many solutions. Stop voting for people who support legislation that keeps stupid people from killing themselves. -W