Comcast, (along with other final mile ISP's) typically limit upload bandwidth. These artificial caps are just that.. artificial. By corollary, Comcast is deliberately setting themselves up to receive paychecks by limiting the reciprocation on their pipe by it's customers. If you must limit yourself for financial reasons over what bandwidth you could utilize I understand, however for the sake of peering that amount should still be symmetric.

If asymetric pipes are allowed to continue, then as long as it is monetarily beneficial to maintain a high receive to send ratio, that ratio should grow until it becomes unrealistic to maintain useful bandwidth. The download portion then becomes a marketing gimmick only as the limit will be the TCP ACK packets being sent back to the publishing application.

Feel free to correct where/if I am wrong

Complete elimination of risk from any activity is impossible. To live is to assume risk.

"He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Benjamin_Franklin

I think you missed a point. It's not that you have to master other communications, it's that everyone else you're trying to stay in touch with _also_ has to master these connection methods. The communication is just an interface.

#1 is easy, #2, not so much

The panels were on display at Modern Day Marine. Basically two standard cell panel integrated into a box that is "Marine resistant". Up to eight plug into a HD box housing the charge controller.

The problem is that personnel need electricity for their gizmos. HMMWV's have 200A 24V alternators from the factory now (which are so big the original 6.5L alternator mounting holes need extensions). If you don't have a vehicle handy, charging items becomes more interesting since you already have 80+ lbs of gear on your back [adding extra / bigger batteries usually exceeds single person weight limits]. Solar is especially nice because you don't have to ship fuel and generator parts around--a base actually becomes more self sufficient. Simply using a green alternative for dino JP-8/5 doesn't do this.

Another solution solution being heavily looked at with larger vehicles is diesel-electric propulsion, coupled with a renewable carbon sourced fuel (WVO conversion, algae, Fischer Tropsch, etc.). The hybrid drive provides electrical generation without needing a dedicated generator (stationary use) or an oversize alternator (mobile use).

The reason we don't have a lot of production is no one has put together a system dedicated to making antimatter. The last major hurdle was slowing down the antiprotons from a particle accelerator so they can be captured, and that was on /. a week or two ago, IIRC. All major accelerators are designed for new and varying particle studies. I would expect a purpose built device for making a specific type of particle would improve generation several times to several orders of magnitude.

As of this point, it stops being science and starts being engineering. Technology maturity, usability designs, and finally production and storage considerations.

KE = 1/2 mv^2. That v^2 is going to be more of a factor than m.

At least a cycle has less frontal area (fewer people hit in a crowd) and requires balance to use (something drunk people are not known for).

I've always thought motorcycles are a great way to discourage drunk driving. If someone is too drunk to balance themselves on the motorcycle, they can't get going. If it tips on their leg and pins them down, they have no choice but to wait until sober. If someone does get going drunk, they pose much more of a danger to themselves than (many, but not all) others. Your Darwin Award will be in the shape of a telephone pole...

You provide this example to a website that routinely provides that exact same response to the actions of Micro$haft?

Pot, meet Kettle

BGAN would probably work on a sailing vessel 8 kts). It works on riveriene craft we have used. The asker unfortunately did not provide details on the displacement and dimensions of the boat used, nor the environment in which it would be used (intercostal? Open ocean? Time of year? Tropical or artic? How much actual connected time is needed to telecommute? Insert other requirement related questions here...)

Needless to say, any boat / ship that is rocking enough will have difficulty maintaining a signal without an antenna tracker.

This was asked sooner than 10 years ago, and I'll repeat my answer to that thread.

You want BGAN. It's an INMARSAT service. Designed for marine use, but will not be cheap

http://www.inmarsat.com/Services/Land/BGAN/default.aspx

No, for 3 reasons:

-The notes don't print automatically, and anyone wanting to just read the slides probably won't notice the notes

-The slides / notes and the report sections may not break down in the same manner, and printing the notes basically becomes printing the report. If this is necessary, wouldn't it be easier to just read the actual report in the first place?

-Printing the notes doesn't capture any of the discussion that occurs during a presentation. That information is inherently lost on whoever is not in attendance. Even with minuets, there is always lost data by not attending.

In all of these scenario's, I do not believe it is appropriate to bundle the presenter with the burden of extra effort for those who could not exert the effort to be there. If those who are not there are the most important, then the presentation should not be held.

That doesn't work when you have a corporate policy of "I'll print the slides and read them later". This is especially bad when the highest levels that need the information presented are the ones not in attendance. If you just list a bunch of figures, they won't understand and your point / request / argument will get tossed out. Thus, the audience for a presentation has changed to those who aren't even there...

This is where the problem lies. A presentation is meant to be a presentation, not a Picture Book With Big Words. Anyone who uses the slides as a reduced-format report is the cause of the current issues (and subsequent lack or presenting skills in the workforce).

I'll guarantee you that doesn't work. I've seen kids take swings at police officers for making them look less cool in front of their friends (this was in a rural area with no gangs). After the whole "turn your back and walk away" speech we were given in 6th grade, we had about 5 guys that waited outside class for people to walk away so they could hit them in the back of the head.

If you want gang related examples, ask a Marine at the DC Barracks what the initiation is. It usually involves firearms and whoever is on guard duty at the gate...

The _only_ way to get these kids to realize they need to change their act is to make them realize they are going to have to submit, and the situation is completely out of their control. This is why you have mega-overreactions like suicide and Columbine--those kids (felt) they had not other choice to their existence.

As an adult, I would argue tossing a kid off the bus is better than taking a 5% chance the bullied will become a statistic on the death of themselves or others.

I have always though it would be nice to give a consumer computer with about 4 analog I/O and 10 digital I/O ports for general use. DAQ is a fundamental part of having a computer interact with the outside world and great for kids introduction to automation. It also has the ability to "become" any port you need it to be as long as the frequency of the controller is greater than 2x the bus speed of the port and someone is willing to write the appropriate pin management to make the I/O pins behave like the port in question (serial, usb, ethernet, etc.) both on the line and to the OS.

Probably a naive question, but--If we have so much hardware support for decoding, then why are Linux / BSD playback such a problem? Wouldn't you then be passing the stream to hardware for decoding, thereby avoiding needing a license to process the stream? I figure you would only need the license to decode in software (since then you are actually writing the codecs yourself)...