Ok folks.. yes latency is real, but it impacts each network stream independently. The problem with EDGE networks is that the bandwidth is not available to adequately multi-task and fill the gaps (created by latency of other streams) . 3G offers a fatter pipe, so even if there is more latency (assuming you have the CPU power and programming in your mobile device) you now can take advantage and fill those "gaps" with requests for more rich content. It is not the initial GET that is of any bandwidth concern, it is the subsequent GETs (which should be executed in parallel as much as possible) to fill in the rich content necessary for the page.
Of course as mentioned earlier this is all moot until the mobile devices have the proper programming and hardware speed to take advantage of it.
Probably the best test of this would be to test this on a laptop with two separate mobile networking cards from each network. I'm pretty sure you'll see much better performance from a 3G network.
These guys have spent the last 8 years protecting each other and the damn bureaucracy that justifies their existence.
Though don't read too much into this Dodd isn't sticking up for the American people or the People of Connecticut.. I guarantee (ok maybe not guarantee) that his motivation is PURELY political.
Exactly, they should have ported over a Dashboard Widget for the Activity Monitor. If you've got the Dashboard up, why not provide system info ala gauge and graph form in a little window.
In the systems management world, or IT world for that matter.... when you talk "Dashboards" people think performance, SLAs, etc.
I assumed that it would come with a systems performance widget.
Stupid it doesn't, regardless of what Activity Monitor does or does not do.
As the father of 4, this is the best news I've heard all season. I'll be sticking my laptop down my pants every night now until my wife hits menopause.
This is like a poor mans Vasectomy. Great Stuff.
Thanks Slashdot!!
Oh I think its quite obvious that something catastrophic happened on descent. I too have been wondering at what the odds of both the probes and the lander having communication problems. Of course taking the simple approach, we can assume that since they are experiencing the same problem they probably failed due to the same phenomenom. The only way this could happen is when they were still joined during descent.
My opinion is that the lander was shot out of the sky by a a yet undiscovered martian civilization!!
It's either that or the folks at JPL screwed up again... I would much prefer to believe the former, especially after spending ~ $200 mil on this project.
Since this would be the second mars mission failure due to human error (and we don't want to believe that).. if we did funding might get cut-off, and we can't have that. We need to wage an all out war against this Martian Menace!.. and we better hurry up, because in about 3 weeks the power grid is going to go out and we will be sitting ducks - you see.. Martian's made it past the millenium bug years ago; and they learned their lesson -- why do you think the planet is so bloody bare?
You know its not like we don't have space vehicles for defending ourselves.. I just watched this documentary on TBS, Moonraker, and according to it we have a whole fleet of Space Shuttles equiped with laser weapons.
I believe that the major point to not overlook, in referring to the 'Jupiter-sized' comment, is that each planet may have many moons as does our own little Jupiter here in this Solar System. It is these lower gravitational bodies that life has the best chance (this is based on the 'more like us' scale - hey go with what works right?). Since there are about 5 of these Jupiter sized objects in the habitable zone, and I would guess at least 1 or 2 moons each (why? no idea, but why not) - I would be surprised if there weren't some multi-celled lifeforms out there.
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Ok folks .. yes latency is real, but it impacts each network stream independently. The problem with EDGE networks is that the bandwidth is not available to adequately multi-task and fill the gaps (created by latency of other streams) . 3G offers a fatter pipe, so even if there is more latency (assuming you have the CPU power and programming in your mobile device) you now can take advantage and fill those "gaps" with requests for more rich content. It is not the initial GET that is of any bandwidth concern, it is the subsequent GETs (which should be executed in parallel as much as possible) to fill in the rich content necessary for the page.
Of course as mentioned earlier this is all moot until the mobile devices have the proper programming and hardware speed to take advantage of it.
Probably the best test of this would be to test this on a laptop with two separate mobile networking cards from each network. I'm pretty sure you'll see much better performance from a 3G network.
These guys have spent the last 8 years protecting each other and the damn bureaucracy that justifies their existence.
.. I guarantee (ok maybe not guarantee) that his motivation is PURELY political.
.. It's About Frakin' Time!!!
Though don't read too much into this Dodd isn't sticking up for the American people or the People of Connecticut
Nevertheless
Exactly, they should have ported over a Dashboard Widget for the Activity Monitor. If you've got the Dashboard up, why not provide system info ala gauge and graph form in a little window.
... when you talk "Dashboards" people think performance, SLAs, etc.
In the systems management world, or IT world for that matter.
I assumed that it would come with a systems performance widget.
Stupid it doesn't, regardless of what Activity Monitor does or does not do.
Is it me or did Apple really leave a fundamental widget out of the Dashboard like
-- SYSTEM PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
I mean WTF! What is a dashboard if it doesn't tell you how well the engine is running. I was amazed that it was not included as a default widget.
This should come with Tiger. What a shame.
As the father of 4, this is the best news I've heard all season. I'll be sticking my laptop down my pants every night now until my wife hits menopause. This is like a poor mans Vasectomy. Great Stuff. Thanks Slashdot!!
Oh I think its quite obvious that something catastrophic happened on descent. I too have been wondering at what the odds of both the probes and the lander having communication problems. Of course taking the simple approach, we can assume that since they are experiencing the same problem they probably failed due to the same phenomenom. The only way this could happen is when they were still joined during descent.
.. if we did funding might get cut-off, and we can't have that. We need to wage an all out war against this Martian Menace! .. and we better hurry up, because in about 3 weeks the power grid is going to go out and we will be sitting ducks - you see .. Martian's made it past the millenium bug years ago; and they learned their lesson -- why do you think the planet is so bloody bare?
My opinion is that the lander was shot out of the sky by a a yet undiscovered martian civilization!!
It's either that or the folks at JPL screwed up again... I would much prefer to believe the former, especially after spending ~ $200 mil on this project.
Since this would be the second mars mission failure due to human error (and we don't want to believe that)
You know its not like we don't have space vehicles for defending ourselves.. I just watched this documentary on TBS, Moonraker, and according to it we have a whole fleet of Space Shuttles equiped with laser weapons.
Reinstate the DRAFT!! Defend Mother Earth!
I believe that the major point to not overlook, in referring to the 'Jupiter-sized' comment, is that each planet may have many moons as does our own little Jupiter here in this Solar System. It is these lower gravitational bodies that life has the best chance (this is based on the 'more like us' scale - hey go with what works right?). Since there are about 5 of these Jupiter sized objects in the habitable zone, and I would guess at least 1 or 2 moons each (why? no idea, but why not) - I would be surprised if there weren't some multi-celled lifeforms out there.
-Kraka40