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Comment: Re:Die, CDMA, die! (Score 1) 142

by Carewolf (#43776177) Attached to: Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013

Where the FCC screwed up was that the way LTE frequency was allocated let to greater fragmentation, when it should have been an opportunity to improve compatibly and thus competition.

You say that as if it wasn't the intention of FCC. I think that is what the parent poster was talking about, the FCC isn't doing its job in minimizing fragmentation.

Comment: Re:NTFS (Score 4, Interesting) 347

"Oh god, the NTFS code is a purple opium-fueled Victorian horror novel [...]" -- lol!

Wouldn't that make it on par with XFS and ZFS? Modern filesystems have their advanced features by breaking the traditional layers, which makes them much harder to organize, and makes it seems like they have dirty tentacles branching out into everything else.

Comment: Re:In other words: (Score 1) 147

by Carewolf (#43612851) Attached to: AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's

use the current beta driver. supports Optimus.

Not in any useful way. Since you can't switch a screen from Intel GPU to NVidia, you can only use the optimus driver on screens that boot on nvidia, which is no screens. In other words the new optimus driver supports rendering onto imaginary screens but not real screens.

Comment: Re:Apps?? (Score 2) 100

by Carewolf (#43604687) Attached to: An Exploration of BlackBerry 10's Programming API

Well, I expect to be able to SSH into machines, to be able to tunnel through SSH, to have GPG encryption/decryption. That's kind of the minimum, and since few (no?) systems have built-in support for this apps are quite critical to me.

The Nokia N9 had built-in terminal and SSH, though I think you had to activate developer mode before the icons showed up on the home page.

Comment: Re:The Senate did something right at last. (Score 4, Informative) 76

by Carewolf (#43556067) Attached to: CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate

Wrong! Anytime you need something to not get done, the US Senate is there for you. Its like their superpower.

Actually, they are not very good at that either. They just repealed the law that made it illegal for them to do insider trading. So now the senate are once again the only people in the US legally allowed to do insider trading.

The law repealing it got accepted in record time with no objections.

So, no. Not even when what they SHOULD do is nothing, can thet manage to do the right thing.

Comment: Re:Maybe they shoot together and then split it up (Score 1) 342

by Carewolf (#43510815) Attached to: Disney Announces "One <em>Star Wars</em> Movie Per Year" Plan

So it will be a 1 hour movie stretched to three hours every year?

The post you replied to did say LOTR, not the Hobbit. But yeah, the formula could just as well end up as the Hobbit instead of LOTR, though if they throw everything out they shouldn't at least be burdened with a thin source material better suited to a 30 minute animated feature.

Comment: Re:A long time FSF supporter disagrees with you (Score -1, Flamebait) 291

by Carewolf (#43504879) Attached to: LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete

As a GPL supporter, I must protest that your arrogance does not reflect the views of all of us.

You are not a GPL supporter you are an astroturfing troll. Go away.

That's pretty much the whole point of the GPL. Source changes you make MUST be contributed back

Nobody is forcing you to benefit from my work. If you want to use my work in your product without obeying the GPL, then hire me.

Wireless Networking

Why It's So Hard To Make a Phone Call In Emergency Situations 179

Posted by Soulskill
from the everybody-has-the-same-idea-at-the-same-time dept.
antdude writes "BoingBoing reports on why it's 'so hard to make a phone call in emergency situations.' Quoting: '[The thing about] the radios is that they have different sizes of cells. You've got regular cells and then smaller sub-cells. You also have larger overlay macro-cells that are really big. They try to handle you within the small cell you're closest to. But it's a trade off between capacity — they'd like to have lots of small cells for that — and coverage — they don't want to put 100k small cells everywhere. So you might have a cell that covers a mile ara and then smaller cells within that that handle most of the traffic. ... In the end, it does come down to trade-offs. That's true of any network. You're interested in coverage first and then capacity. If you wanted to guarantee that a network never had an outage your capital investment would have to go up orders of magnitude beyond anything that is rational. So each network is trying to invest their budget in ways that make network appear to perform better. The cost of providing temporary extra capacity for the Boston Marathon, that's something that's in the budget and they plan for that event. But when you get something unexpected like a terrorist event, or an earthquake, or damage from a hurricane or tornado, then you have trade offs between capital and how robust your network is. Every time you have an event people say, "Oh, they didn't invest enough." But you look at New York City after Hurricane Sandy and Southern Manhattan was under 6 feet of water — all the buried infrastructure was lost.'"

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