Why do the rest of us care one iota about dark matter? It may answer fundamental questions etc and could eventually have some positive effect for the people who have to pay for it but surely if our discoveries have to wait 10 years for the next opportunity to put a similar instrument up it's no immediate tragedy?
On the other hand any biological experiments on Columbus might have a far more immediate effect on us e.g. understanding salmonella is important because all of us are at some degree of risk from it.... Just consider that people would have posed the same argument about quantum mechanics, particle physics, etc. etc. a hundred years ago. Yet technologies based on the understanding of these theories fundamentally enables most of modern medicine today. No reason to be short-sighted here. The point is that you simply cannot perform a higher level science like biology or medicine in a vacuum, or you will very quickly stagnate. Just imagine trying to do modern biology or medicine with equipment from a century back! A better understanding of how our universe works will let us design new, better, and cooler gadgets for the people working on your salmonella to play with!
... While I would not doubt this current story, it would be rather obvious if Gamespot went around rating games an 8, 9 and 10 while all the gamers and other game sites rated the same games a 2, 3 and 4. Doesn't matter who votes... just who counts those votes...
I'd rather stab myself with a particularly dull rusty old spoon than try to program anything in LabVIEW.
Speaking from experience, the ONLY advantage LabVIEW has is in rapidly developing a small application to automate an experiment IF your instrument has really good pre-existing LabVIEW drivers. In this single, very specific case you can get a LabVIEW app up and running faster than you could in any other language.
Otherwise, you would be much wiser to invest your time elsewhere (I have found that Matlab is surprisingly a REALLY good choice for instrument control and data acquisition).
That no longer works from what I understand: if you use the #777 number you will be on the EVDO system if it is available. The only way around this is to disable the EVDO support in the phone. Yeah, and IIRC you need 2 init strings to cause it to drop 1xrtt as well AT&QCQNC=#, and another one, AT&QCMDR=# ? I believe... don't remember what the numbers were off the top of my head, or if I even got all the letters completely right.
However, if you know differently (as in, you have actually done in in the past few days and confirmed that it both works, doesn't violate Verizon's TOS, and doesn't cost anything but minutes) I would be glad to hear I was mis-informed. I've used it up to about 2 months back or so when I changed PDA's. (My T3 was unhappy with the evdo/1xrtt for some bizarre reason beyond the well known pap/chap issues. 14.4k was fast enough for e-mail, so I never dug into it)
Please clarify: by "user/pass = qnc/qnc" do you mean that literally - literally use qnc for the user and qnc for the password? Yes, those are the username/password you would use in a regular DUN connection
And that MOU costs US$60 on top of the normal cell charges if I am not mistaken - I don't think you can get it free of charge any more. That sounds more in line with what an unlimited plan would cost for 1xrtt. MOU is enabled by default on all new accounts as it is needed for "get it now", and picture messaging. If you have vcast, you essentially get unlimited MOU (shhh!)
And if Verizon catches you doing this, they can and will terminate all service as this is a violation of their wonderful service contract. Unfortunately, I have exactly two choices in cellular server where I live: Verizon or nothing. Reducing that choice to "nothing" is not something I wish to do. Sure, Verizon CAN terminate your service for using 1xrtt or evdo MOU while tethered. However, the WILL part is hotly debated online. If you run torrents all night/weekend, chances are good that they will eventually shut you down, but 99.999% of the people doing this never have a problem. To date, I haven't heard a peep from them, and I use MOU extensively at least a few times a month while traveling.
(btw. 14.4k should be fine to my understanding, as they used to openly advertise this service, and even sell data cable connection kits to use it!)
You can dial any modem at 14.4k for free (just using minutes) from any vzw cell account... I have personally confirmed this works on several phones... If you just want to use the internet, then they provide their own DUN number. #777 user/pass = qnc/qnc for 14.4k, so you don't need your own ISP or modem bank. BUT IT DOES WORK WITH ANY MODEM on POTS!!! (FYI : Contrary to what many other posters here assumed, the signaling is digital between your phone and tower, it gets modulated/demodulated)
This is the only solution advertised and supported by them. (I believe it used to be called mobile office, or something like that)
You DO need to ensure you have the right modem init string in order to get your phone to drop down to this data rate. Do some reading on the net.
--The stuff below is unadvertised, but also confirmed working by me and many others--
In a 1xRTT service area, if you have National Access MOU enabled on your account you can get 144k service to the internet. I called customer service to get this code on my account when it first came out, but I believe it's now added automatically to all new accounts. phone number = #777, user = (yourphonenumber@vzw3g.com), pass = vzw. Again, just uses minutes. (To use this, you usually have to change a setting in a programming screen on your phone to disable EVDO)
If you poke around in your phone's firmware and change the tethering profile details, you can also tether at full EVDO speeds using just minutes. I'm able to get full EVDO over bluetooth with my plain old verizon razr v3c (stock firmware)... again, just using regular plan minutes. I've used this all over the US, and the performance for EVDO is very comparable to my first DSL connection! Again, do some research on the net. The info is out there.
Unfortunately, I disagree with you. As far as I understand, the phrase "begs the question," is not being misused at all. I believe that it is being used EXACTLY as intended, and you have provided no evidence to the contrary. (In fact, you provided a link clearly contradicting yourself)
How about you try pulling that grammar stick out of your ass, and actually go read the article you linked to... I used the phrase "begs the question" correctly.
"Begs the question" is commonly used[1] to mean "raises the question"
beg the question 1. to cause a particular question to be asked. Cyber adventurers can even climb a mountain, which begs the question of how can someone at a keyboard take a hike? 2. to fail to answer a particular question. Everyone agrees we have to cut spending, but this proposal begs the question, What do we cut?
You are confused because the wikipedia article is very poorly written, and is primarily about a loosely related specific type of common logical fallacy. If you bothered to actually understand the article you linked, you would have realized that it is not arguing the proper usage of the phrase, but rather trying to explain a concept in the field of logic called "begging the question" a.k.a. petitio principii.
The 8800 card is MANY times faster than an sli 6600.... SLI NEVER makes sense (financially or performance-wise), UNLESS you have money to burn and really do need the speed today (buying both cards almost simultaneously).
Verizon voice/data is $79 a month for "unlimited" smartphone usage and 450 minutes (a normal 450 minute plan is $39). A standalone laptop card plan is $59/month for "unlimited data".. where unlimited is now something like 5 gigs.
Unoficially, all verizon cell phones can tether at up to broadbandaccess speeds, and you just use your regular pool of minutes.
Other carriers are cheaper (oficially).. Sprint sero plans unoficially include unlimited vision, the $5 t-mobile tzone plan used to allow you (again unoficially) unlimited tethering (i heard you now need the $20 plan now). In either case, data is relatively cheap in the US!
I hate verizon's locked and crappy hardware as much as the next guy. I've tried to get away from them on several occasions, but always keep coming back... I'd switch to a GSM carrier in a heartbeat, if their networks were even remotely comparable. Unfortunately, in the northeast, Verizon's voice service really is unparalleled. Their ridiculous tower density coupled with the fact that 800Mhz CDMA outperforms 1900Mhz GSM handily really shows in practice. I've tried AT&T, T-mobile, and Sprint. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that AT&T's new 800Mhz rollouts will bring their level of service up to the point where their service is usable in a few years.
As far as data goes, Verizon EVDO easily blows away offerings from other carriers (I've also tried them all). I find that it really is about as fast as my first DSL connection. It's pricey, but IMHO well worth it if you use it for work.
P.S. an active data connection is not maintained for AIM... The client uses a data connection for a few seconds when you first login to get your buddy list. Further communication occurs via text messages (they want you to pay the text messaging rate). No idea why you have trouble staying signed on, but it's definitely not the data network.
So whenever you don't understand something you make up your own explanation and then claim it's the absolute truth? Unfortunately, that approach does not make you an expert on DNS.
FYI, the comcast rep was correct... While it is possible that their DNS server is malfunctioning in some really really bizarro way and feeding you a legit response with an incorrect value, it is INFINITELY MORE likely that your own local DNS cache is poisoned with the wrong value because of their redirection scheme.
Rebooting your computer and router would have most likely helped. When they started redirecting your traffic to their own captcha page, they may have poisoned your local DNS cache (in your router, computer or both) with the wrong IP for any page you requested. This is one common (albeit stupid) way to redirect traffic, and why you saw the comcast page for every single web address you typed in. Ideally, this entry should have had a low timeout value, but not all caching DNS software respects that value. Resetting the device (in this case BOTH your computer and router) usually clears your DNS cache data, and would have likely helped your problem.
Net bugs are a good thing to have, I think (got one on here), particularly given the plentiful supply of open wireless points in most large cities now. Turn on machine, bug sends data burst, thief is cornered. Hell, he doesn't even need to physically connect to a network these days. Haven't really thought this through, have you? Where do you send the police?
The most that verizon "officially" supports is the 14.4k qnc connection.
EVDO tethering is locked out at the phone. I have successfully hacked my v3c to unlock it (it required a bit of reading and some proprietary motorola software), but it was a while back, so I forget the details. There were some rough pointers out on the net last time I checked.
Without that, the most that you can hope for is 1xrtt (again, do some reading, because it requires a few odd settings in your DUN profile (like pap before chap), and may require a specific init string for your phone -or- manually disabling evdo on your phone from a programming screen)
FYI, you do not need an ISP for data with most cell phone providers... For instance, on verizon, you can set your dial up network connection to call #777. The initialization string, and username/password combo you use depends on the speed you want to connect (qnc/qnc for 14.4k, yournumber@vzw3g.com/vzw for 1xrtt and evdo). Most other cell providers have something similar. Do some searching on the net.
Just one more reason why I've done the same thing I did to windows millenium. I told all of my non-techie friends that if they buy Vista, they are on their own...
I will dive into your windows xp registry to rip bonzai buddy out, help you with your BeOS install, and sit there recompiling your linux kernel fifteen times for a beer... If you come to me with a Vista machine, I'm just going to send you away with a gutsy gibbon cd to remove the vista infection.
So far, everyone that depends on my help has heeded my advice, and bought machines from vendors offering XP.
You are out of your mind... I live in the land of snow and ice and over the years there have been a few situations where an additional layer of paint or lack of ABS on my car would have surely resulted in an accident. In fact, in my opinion, good snow/ice tires along with ABS are at least an order of magnitude more important than four wheel drive in accident avoidance.
In addition to allowing you the ability to retain steering control during braking, ABS DECREASES the stopping distance. Don't believe me? Look up the difference between static and kinetic friction. The laws of physics ALSO apply to ice!
As long as you are not racing (and/or an experienced race driver), and aware that your car is equipped with ABS (i.e. you don't try to pump the brake on an ABS car), it is ALWAYS a good thing to have it enabled! Furthermore, in some of the more modern cars it is also coupled to the traction, brake force distribution, and dynamic stability control systems (also nice to have).
- Bullies won't go after you if they are afraid that there's a chance of getting their nose bloodied. - Don't have to run faster than the bear... just faster than the slowest guy running from the bear.
Harvard students are excluded from these notifications, not because of their innocence, but because of the fact that there are literally thousands of easier targets to go after that have no chance of fighting back!
Because they still have to pay for the bandwidth off of their network. In your solution, their line is always saturated (good for customers, bad for their bottom line).
It's much cheaper for them to just kick off the most demanding users.
No, YOU have completely missed the parent's point! It's not free if you have to spend significant cash to upgrade your own network to allow users to share mass quantities of data amongst themselves. Right now, most residential networks are not set up to efficiently handle heavy peer to peer uploading, even among people on the same network. Read the parent's post again.
1.5GB for the quadro or tesla cards, 768 if you stick with the much cheaper 8800GTX's... and it's actually only 16 processors that have a SIMD instruction set.
For scientific computation, 32bits can definitely be limiting, but isn't always a problem. The bigger annoyance/limit I've run across is the current lack of a CUDA BLAS library for complex numbers. (I've had to write the portions I needed myself).
Regardless of whether you use CUDA, rapdimind, or some other solution, the problem still has to be inherently non-conditional and non-iterative in order to realize any benefit here. You still have to find a way to break the problem down into kernels that run on each stream processor. For instance, the problem I programmed up in CUDA was iterative in nature, which means that each successive loop depends on the previous output. This meant that there is a very hard upper limit to the number of cpu's you can have before you stop seeing any benefits, and the raw clockspeed becomes the limiting factor.
Obviously can't do everything a general purpose CPU can, --and-- they operate only in single precision. Getting information on and off of the GPU is still relatively slow (you currently have only 768mb per card, so for larger problems you may have to move a lot of things around). Additionally, these are only worthwhile for very highly parallelizable problems. (you have to keep all 128 streams active at all times to get anywhere near half a teraflop)
Still the graphics cards are very impressive. I've seen a 8800GTX go HUNDREDS of times faster on a certain problem than a 3GHZ C2duo.
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On the other hand any biological experiments on Columbus might have a far more immediate effect on us e.g. understanding salmonella is important because all of us are at some degree of risk from it.... Just consider that people would have posed the same argument about quantum mechanics, particle physics, etc. etc. a hundred years ago. Yet technologies based on the understanding of these theories fundamentally enables most of modern medicine today.
No reason to be short-sighted here. The point is that you simply cannot perform a higher level science like biology or medicine in a vacuum, or you will very quickly stagnate. Just imagine trying to do modern biology or medicine with equipment from a century back! A better understanding of how our universe works will let us design new, better, and cooler gadgets for the people working on your salmonella to play with!
... While I would not doubt this current story, it would be rather obvious if Gamespot went around rating games an 8, 9 and 10 while all the gamers and other game sites rated the same games a 2, 3 and 4. Doesn't matter who votes... just who counts those votes...I've never missed having one, even when my wife was quite pregnant. Nice... but, for every cell phone you don't have, I'll have three!
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I'd rather stab myself with a particularly dull rusty old spoon than try to program anything in LabVIEW.
Speaking from experience, the ONLY advantage LabVIEW has is in rapidly developing a small application to automate an experiment IF your instrument has really good pre-existing LabVIEW drivers. In this single, very specific case you can get a LabVIEW app up and running faster than you could in any other language.
Otherwise, you would be much wiser to invest your time elsewhere (I have found that Matlab is surprisingly a REALLY good choice for instrument control and data acquisition).
However, the WILL part is hotly debated online. If you run torrents all night/weekend, chances are good that they will eventually shut you down, but 99.999% of the people doing this never have a problem. To date, I haven't heard a peep from them, and I use MOU extensively at least a few times a month while traveling.
(btw. 14.4k should be fine to my understanding, as they used to openly advertise this service, and even sell data cable connection kits to use it!)
You can dial any modem at 14.4k for free (just using minutes) from any vzw cell account... I have personally confirmed this works on several phones... If you just want to use the internet, then they provide their own DUN number. #777 user/pass = qnc/qnc for 14.4k, so you don't need your own ISP or modem bank. BUT IT DOES WORK WITH ANY MODEM on POTS!!! (FYI : Contrary to what many other posters here assumed, the signaling is digital between your phone and tower, it gets modulated/demodulated)
This is the only solution advertised and supported by them. (I believe it used to be called mobile office, or something like that)
You DO need to ensure you have the right modem init string in order to get your phone to drop down to this data rate. Do some reading on the net.
--The stuff below is unadvertised, but also confirmed working by me and many others--
In a 1xRTT service area, if you have National Access MOU enabled on your account you can get 144k service to the internet. I called customer service to get this code on my account when it first came out, but I believe it's now added automatically to all new accounts. phone number = #777, user = (yourphonenumber@vzw3g.com), pass = vzw. Again, just uses minutes. (To use this, you usually have to change a setting in a programming screen on your phone to disable EVDO)
If you poke around in your phone's firmware and change the tethering profile details, you can also tether at full EVDO speeds using just minutes. I'm able to get full EVDO over bluetooth with my plain old verizon razr v3c (stock firmware)... again, just using regular plan minutes. I've used this all over the US, and the performance for EVDO is very comparable to my first DSL connection! Again, do some research on the net. The info is out there.
-Tom
Unfortunately, I disagree with you. As far as I understand, the phrase "begs the question," is not being misused at all. I believe that it is being used EXACTLY as intended, and you have provided no evidence to the contrary. (In fact, you provided a link clearly contradicting yourself)
How about you try pulling that grammar stick out of your ass, and actually go read the article you linked to... I used the phrase "begs the question" correctly.
"Begs the question" is commonly used[1] to mean "raises the question"
following link [1] http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/begged+the+question
beg the question
1. to cause a particular question to be asked. Cyber adventurers can even climb a mountain, which begs the question of how can someone at a keyboard take a hike?
2. to fail to answer a particular question. Everyone agrees we have to cut spending, but this proposal begs the question, What do we cut?
You are confused because the wikipedia article is very poorly written, and is primarily about a loosely related specific type of common logical fallacy. If you bothered to actually understand the article you linked, you would have realized that it is not arguing the proper usage of the phrase, but rather trying to explain a concept in the field of logic called "begging the question" a.k.a. petitio principii.
Which begs the question... if you have the capability to smuggle an EMP onto a plane, why not just use a good old fashioned bomb?
The 8800 card is MANY times faster than an sli 6600.... SLI NEVER makes sense (financially or performance-wise), UNLESS you have money to burn and really do need the speed today (buying both cards almost simultaneously).
Verizon voice/data is $79 a month for "unlimited" smartphone usage and 450 minutes (a normal 450 minute plan is $39). A standalone laptop card plan is $59/month for "unlimited data".. where unlimited is now something like 5 gigs.
Unoficially, all verizon cell phones can tether at up to broadbandaccess speeds, and you just use your regular pool of minutes.
Other carriers are cheaper (oficially).. Sprint sero plans unoficially include unlimited vision, the $5 t-mobile tzone plan used to allow you (again unoficially) unlimited tethering (i heard you now need the $20 plan now). In either case, data is relatively cheap in the US!
-Tom
Disagree completely.
I hate verizon's locked and crappy hardware as much as the next guy. I've tried to get away from them on several occasions, but always keep coming back... I'd switch to a GSM carrier in a heartbeat, if their networks were even remotely comparable. Unfortunately, in the northeast, Verizon's voice service really is unparalleled. Their ridiculous tower density coupled with the fact that 800Mhz CDMA outperforms 1900Mhz GSM handily really shows in practice. I've tried AT&T, T-mobile, and Sprint. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that AT&T's new 800Mhz rollouts will bring their level of service up to the point where their service is usable in a few years.
As far as data goes, Verizon EVDO easily blows away offerings from other carriers (I've also tried them all). I find that it really is about as fast as my first DSL connection. It's pricey, but IMHO well worth it if you use it for work.
P.S. an active data connection is not maintained for AIM... The client uses a data connection for a few seconds when you first login to get your buddy list. Further communication occurs via text messages (they want you to pay the text messaging rate). No idea why you have trouble staying signed on, but it's definitely not the data network.
So whenever you don't understand something you make up your own explanation and then claim it's the absolute truth? Unfortunately, that approach does not make you an expert on DNS.
FYI, the comcast rep was correct... While it is possible that their DNS server is malfunctioning in some really really bizarro way and feeding you a legit response with an incorrect value, it is INFINITELY MORE likely that your own local DNS cache is poisoned with the wrong value because of their redirection scheme.
Rebooting your computer and router would have most likely helped. When they started redirecting your traffic to their own captcha page, they may have poisoned your local DNS cache (in your router, computer or both) with the wrong IP for any page you requested. This is one common (albeit stupid) way to redirect traffic, and why you saw the comcast page for every single web address you typed in. Ideally, this entry should have had a low timeout value, but not all caching DNS software respects that value. Resetting the device (in this case BOTH your computer and router) usually clears your DNS cache data, and would have likely helped your problem.
The most that verizon "officially" supports is the 14.4k qnc connection.
EVDO tethering is locked out at the phone. I have successfully hacked my v3c to unlock it (it required a bit of reading and some proprietary motorola software), but it was a while back, so I forget the details. There were some rough pointers out on the net last time I checked.
Without that, the most that you can hope for is 1xrtt (again, do some reading, because it requires a few odd settings in your DUN profile (like pap before chap), and may require a specific init string for your phone -or- manually disabling evdo on your phone from a programming screen)
-Tom
FYI, you do not need an ISP for data with most cell phone providers... For instance, on verizon, you can set your dial up network connection to call #777. The initialization string, and username/password combo you use depends on the speed you want to connect (qnc/qnc for 14.4k, yournumber@vzw3g.com/vzw for 1xrtt and evdo). Most other cell providers have something similar.
Do some searching on the net.
Just one more reason why I've done the same thing I did to windows millenium. I told all of my non-techie friends that if they buy Vista, they are on their own...
I will dive into your windows xp registry to rip bonzai buddy out, help you with your BeOS install, and sit there recompiling your linux kernel fifteen times for a beer... If you come to me with a Vista machine, I'm just going to send you away with a gutsy gibbon cd to remove the vista infection.
So far, everyone that depends on my help has heeded my advice, and bought machines from vendors offering XP.
You are out of your mind... I live in the land of snow and ice and over the years there have been a few situations where an additional layer of paint or lack of ABS on my car would have surely resulted in an accident. In fact, in my opinion, good snow/ice tires along with ABS are at least an order of magnitude more important than four wheel drive in accident avoidance.
In addition to allowing you the ability to retain steering control during braking, ABS DECREASES the stopping distance. Don't believe me? Look up the difference between static and kinetic friction. The laws of physics ALSO apply to ice!
As long as you are not racing (and/or an experienced race driver), and aware that your car is equipped with ABS (i.e. you don't try to pump the brake on an ABS car), it is ALWAYS a good thing to have it enabled! Furthermore, in some of the more modern cars it is also coupled to the traction, brake force distribution, and dynamic stability control systems (also nice to have).
I read his post... it was informative... as far as the law goes, the devil is often in the details.
Give them a break... they were too busy programming that stupid ribbon, and shuffling all of the options around to confound advanced users.
-Tom
Perfect life lessons in this one...
- Bullies won't go after you if they are afraid that there's a chance of getting their nose bloodied.
- Don't have to run faster than the bear... just faster than the slowest guy running from the bear.
Harvard students are excluded from these notifications, not because of their innocence, but because of the fact that there are literally thousands of easier targets to go after that have no chance of fighting back!
Because they still have to pay for the bandwidth off of their network. In your solution, their line is always saturated (good for customers, bad for their bottom line). It's much cheaper for them to just kick off the most demanding users.
No, YOU have completely missed the parent's point! It's not free if you have to spend significant cash to upgrade your own network to allow users to share mass quantities of data amongst themselves. Right now, most residential networks are not set up to efficiently handle heavy peer to peer uploading, even among people on the same network. Read the parent's post again.
1.5GB for the quadro or tesla cards, 768 if you stick with the much cheaper 8800GTX's... and it's actually only 16 processors that have a SIMD instruction set.
For scientific computation, 32bits can definitely be limiting, but isn't always a problem. The bigger annoyance/limit I've run across is the current lack of a CUDA BLAS library for complex numbers. (I've had to write the portions I needed myself).
Regardless of whether you use CUDA, rapdimind, or some other solution, the problem still has to be inherently non-conditional and non-iterative in order to realize any benefit here. You still have to find a way to break the problem down into kernels that run on each stream processor. For instance, the problem I programmed up in CUDA was iterative in nature, which means that each successive loop depends on the previous output. This meant that there is a very hard upper limit to the number of cpu's you can have before you stop seeing any benefits, and the raw clockspeed becomes the limiting factor.
Obviously can't do everything a general purpose CPU can, --and-- they operate only in single precision. Getting information on and off of the GPU is still relatively slow (you currently have only 768mb per card, so for larger problems you may have to move a lot of things around). Additionally, these are only worthwhile for very highly parallelizable problems. (you have to keep all 128 streams active at all times to get anywhere near half a teraflop)
Still the graphics cards are very impressive. I've seen a 8800GTX go HUNDREDS of times faster on a certain problem than a 3GHZ C2duo.