Comment Not very well written then (Score 1) 230
Well-written C can be cross-platform compatible. It's all in how you write things (or the libraries you use).
Well-written C can be cross-platform compatible. It's all in how you write things (or the libraries you use).
So who convicted US soldiers or politicians for their participation in US concentration camps? That's right - nobody. History is written by it's victors, the nazi leaders were going to be convicted and hanged by a kangaroo court regardless because they were on the losing end. Had they succeeded and captured Britain and the US, FDR and Churchill would've been convicted and hanged by a kangaroo court as well.
Newtonian gravitation was still being taught at my high school less than 20 years ago.
I noticed something similar with US cars. Apparently the gear ratios are set to get the optimal MPG under testing conditions (50 USMPH without AC) which makes the transmission shift down (and thus higher rpm) when you're going 55 with your AC and other accessories on, then switching gears/going into overdrive between 60 and 70mph.
DOCSIS 3.1 from 2008 has 10Gbps/1Gbps links. You don't need to divide that by 100 households, these services are being oversold 1000:1 if not worse already. Also, you only need that to the distribution point, after that it's already mainly fiber. Even fiber services don't necessarily bring FTTH - many are still copper for the short distance to the distribution point.
Plenty of pilots sleep while they're doing an automated flight, they also have laptops or tablets these days for personal use. There have been some reported incidents where pilots were caught doing those things.
500kbps-1.5Mbps is not a whole lot these days. And your 5Mbps connection not being able to maintain it is due to your ISP being up to no good - there is no way you sustained 5Mbps connections to the Netflix servers and had issues. I have 15Mbps and none of my services EVER get interrupted (I maintain several VPS from home and generally have no problems at all)... except Netflix and YouTube cannot maintain even 500kbps.
They provide services for the help desks of said companies as well as other infrastructure systems for them. If you're ever privy to enter one of their colo's you'll see all the Lucent tags on PSTN gear.
http://stopthecap.com/2011/12/...
and the FCC knows about it:
http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/docum...
and even in Congress:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
You know your iPad/Android devices are already capable of doing that. It's just nobody wants to do that. Tablets have less computing power, longer battery life and are cheap - they'll always be very portable, portable will always have less power than desktop/laptop. I use my iPad for things like the kitchen where I don't want to ruin an expensive laptop, require a water-resistant system without fans, smaller than a laptop yet not so tiny that I have to hold it to read it. Yes, my laptop has about the same battery life as an iPad these days but it's heavier, bulkier, more expensive and more powerful.
Surface tablets are just a rehash of the Microsoft Tablet PC's - they are as expensive yet less powerful than a real laptop and they still run a desktop OS. I don't want to run Office on these devices, it's too tiny for that.
Tablets are made for convenient content consumption such as recipes, the quick e-mail and web pages, not content creation, not a desktop/laptop.
They make money from your monthly subscription fees etc.
The other companies do the same things, TWC, AT&T, Comcast all make money through your monthly internet bill and have been VERY profitable in doing so. The problem is that they want to keep their customers and make MORE money without spending any of their profits on upgrades or peering/colocation.
It's not like TWC/Comcast has to rip out and replace any cabling, the existing infrastructure (yes, copper) works well for speeds up to what Google Fiber is offering and more (100Mbps - 1Gbps). Even at current speeds (1-10Mbps), there is PLENTY of headroom for most people, Netflix doesn't take more than a few hundred kbps per stream. They just don't want to invest in a bigger link to Netflix/YouTube or letting them colocate in their spaces, they think that they can switch their customers who are paying for Internet into connecting to their private network (MSN/AOL style) and if anyone wants to go outside their private network, they should pay extra. And they can do this because they have been granted a monopoly by the government (by splitting up Ma Bell, they no longer needed to be regulated, the FCC has been paid for to not interfere and they have no-compete clauses with each other).
Thankfully there are plenty of startups starting to eat their market share (be it Google, Greenlight,
And exactly what is it that the police are supposed to do? Prevent crime? They don't do that, they're largely criminals themselves. Respond to calls? They barely do that. Cops are largely a revenue generating stream for the government - the story says $300k/officer in fines - they largely pay for themselves right now (why do we have a shortage if a cop generates 6 times his salary in fines?). We have local police, county sheriff, state police and several federal and international police forces.
In the US you have local parking enforcement to give parking tickets and tow cars - those won't have a job as you can just let an autonomous car park anywhere it finds an authorized space by itself so those will disappear. Local police do the hassling of some small time criminals and things that don't amount to felonies, they don't actually do anything, giving a fine is hard work for them, a busted taillight is usually what they're after they'll stick around for the most part because they're actually visible and "necessary" to the plebes. County sheriff does the paper work for court proceedings so we kind of need them until the courts can find a better way of serving papers. State police does traffic enforcement, they'll almost completely disappear, beyond giving speeding tickets and going after escaped convicts, they're invisible. Federal goes after the low hanging fruit among the heavy criminals, they're not interested in traffic, they'll stick around because the TV tells us the FBI is necessary and terrr'ists make sure DHS sticks around. International police is the UN of police forces - talks a lot but doesn't actually do anything, they'll stay around because consortiums of countries are funding them.
First of all, you balk at the cost of some of these solutions - yes, they are expensive and yes, they'll be mostly for added assurance that IF someone breaks in and IF the alarm wasn't set and IF the thief is even interested in it and IF the thief then decides to take it (lot's of if's). If your setup is mobile (eg. you're a DJ or mobile contractor) then those solutions are useful. But for the rest, they are merely added insurance and typically useless.
I'd say, use an alarm system that you can connect to (some of the DIY systems do run Linux) and use some type of motion sensing timeout to set the alarm or use BT to check if someone is still in the house etc. etc.. There are a lot of cheap and creative solutions to this problem.
Most thieves won't break in if you have an alarm (sticker), there are other, lower hanging fruit. A thief won't break in when you have a dog (again with the fruit thing). A thief will only take what's small and valuable (what's easily sold, what's easily carried). Most thieves aren't smart nor tech savvy and doesn't know that little black box costs $5000 but they'll sure destroy it regardless of whether there is an alarm attached to it (especially if there is an alarm attached to it).
I'd say, stop worrying, take backups of your data off-site, get homeowners or renters insurance. The laptops/tablets/phones will disappear in any case, the UPS/PC/NAS most likely won't unless there is a group and they are actively clearing out the entire house (posing as movers to the neighbors). Thieves are also very destructive so regardless of what they take, they may destroy whatever you're trying to protect and a destroyed NAS is just as good as a stolen NAS. Theft recovery systems don't work because the police won't put in the legwork (see the recurring stories on MacBooks and iOS devices being located by the customer). The insurance will pay you back for the 'stuff', they can't recovery your data however and that is the case for fire, flood and other damage as well.
That's what I mean, after the additional time for processing it would easily double the latency. The problem with USB is that even throwing a bigger box at it won't help, the latency is inherent to the protocol.
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