Comment Re:Government Intervention (Score 4, Funny) 495
I remember back on 2004. My girlfriend in Japan had 100/100Mb fibre and it cost her about ã20/month.
I don't believe you (about the "girlfriend" part, not the "fiber" part).
I remember back on 2004. My girlfriend in Japan had 100/100Mb fibre and it cost her about ã20/month.
I don't believe you (about the "girlfriend" part, not the "fiber" part).
In the Netherlands, the incumbent telco PTT (now KPN) was first forced to co-locate equipment from other ISPs (they actually sabotaged that equipment from time to time), then forced to share the local loop for a reasonable fee.
Yeah, we had the same thing here, complete with sabotage, but then we got rid of it.
Yeah, but voters are getting big government anyway! It's just that it's the even worse kind of big government -- the kind that spends all its money unaccountably on the military-industrial complex (and increasingly, the prison-industrial complex) instead of providing services to constituents.
There are more than two parties. The trick is that you have to care about them at the local level first in order for them to become relevant at the national level later.
Now when I say my peak rates are less than 25% of broadband speed, maybe I can get some sympathy
The spare platter strategy does nothing to reduce this failure mode. In fact, all modern disks already have spare space for bad block relocation.
Including pretty much everything with an onboard controller. "Modern" is understating the case.
If I were expecting an array to last a long time without being touched, I would expect it to have a whole bunch of spares that never even got heated up until they were needed, just sat there in the box enjoying living in a relatively temperature-constant environment. Sure, there's fluctuations, but they'll all be within the operating temperature range of the drives.
It's not all about you. I'm talking about
...so it's all about you?
How'd you get a blank post past the lameness filter?
My point is that the "year of the Linux desktop" won't be because of "normal" Linux, but rather Chrome OS.
A cellphone phone is a thing and it's usually connected to the internet. An internet of things no less.
I'm pretty sure that you know that these "things" are things which have a purpose other than being a computer, which a cellphone doesn't. (POTS being obsolete today, though still useful)
Or maybe people just used the term "embedded" previously and are now using "IoT" because of it being fashionable
Many of those embedded systems don't even have network interfaces, let alone are capable of participating on an internetwork using TCP/IP.
Smart, but if we're going to substitute the jobs of editors with Google then maybe we should go all out. Instead we're paying useless editors
Who is this 'we'? I run adblock (and I'm eligible to have ads disabled anyway) and I don't recall ever cutting Slashdot a check.
As if "the internet of things" is somehow more special than the idea that as the tech gets cheaper, more and more things will connect to wireless networks.
Yes, the idea is that this time has come. It hasn't, but believing that it has will usher it in as the increased demand produces the parts we need to actually do the thing. In the meantime a lot of startups will rise and asplode.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.