You're making the (perhaps flawed) assumption that the purpose of such a mesh network is to access the greater Internet.
The summary kind of implies that people want to use a mesh to connect to the greater Internet.
After reading your post, I'm not really sure what other use you have for a mesh network, other than to connect to it.
For the life of me I do not understand all the BlackBerry hate on slashdot.
Because for a few years (until recently) Blackberry went through a really bad period. Now they are better, but no one knows that.
No, it is not a myth at all. Tax forms are public information and you can review them from the very first tax form. Up until Nixon it was not uncommon for people to pay 90% tax. Average wages may have been around 20K/yr at the time, and if you made a million a year you would still have 5 times the average salary. There were some fluctuations, and certain investments could be taken out of wages.. but not that many especially early in our income tax history.
Do yourself a favor, and actually do the work you claim other people failed to do before dishing out false information.
It tasted like shit and my hand prints looked just like any other and what was the use if it anyway? Face-book? Hand-wall motherfucker. In fact we had a game we called facesmash but that was more just smashing peoples faces with sticks.
But we liked it and we didn't complain.
Why would anyone use a Xeon with that many cores in a desktop?
I can think of quite a few specialised but realistic applications: CAD/CAM/CAE, rendering/pre-viz, high-end audio or video mixing work, simulation, and running modern web apps as fast as their traditional desktop equivalents used to run on a Pentium II.
Do you consider giving schools enough money to do their jobs properly a "weird experiment"? I think of it more as an eminently sensible policy...
You want know what I'm saying? I'm saying you're an argumentative git who can come up with something deeper and more relevant to say than that, but you didn't. What exactly do you think 'weird experiment' refers to here?
I mean with all the technical miracles NASA pulled off on that mission, they somehow managed to underestimate the longevity of the mission by 45x.
To be fair, 90 days was not, in fact, the estimated lifetime of the mission. It was the design specification of the mission. That is, each of the subsystems was designed with the specification "design a system that will operate for a minimum of 90 (Martian) days, even under worst-case conditions."
Think of it as a 90-day warranty-- after 90 days, it wasn't expected to be dead, it was just out of warranty.
(and note that since the engineering specification was validated by testing the subsystems to either three times design life, or testing to design life under three-sigma worst-case conditions, it would have been very difficult to design for 4000 days...)
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion