Comment Wtha Tyespetting? (Score 1) 269
"governments much find ways to promote the long-term health of the planet over short-term profit."
Ahhh, The Grauniad.
Comment Re:Why chip? (Score 1) 165
The air conditioning doesn't, the separate area-specific rear control panel does.
Comment Re:Well done (Score 1) 57
The issue is that radio altimeters are licensed for a 200Mhz band, but most of them actually listen to a 1.2Ghz band because they have a crap receive mask on them.
I thought it was 4.2-4.4GHz?
“As an initial matter, the [FCC] concluded in the C-Band Order that the 3.7 GHz Service technical rules and the spectral separation of at least 220 megahertz from radio altimeter operations “are sufficient to protect aeronautical services in the 4.2-4.4 GHz band.”
Comment Re:Try Writing a Scientific Paper or Textbook (Score 1) 391
I'm not sure what you mean by "record review" though.
I'm guessing "album of music" is what is meant by "record".
Comment Re:Two reasons (Score 1) 391
It IS trivial. There's an '@' with something on either side of it.
That's genuinely the only validation you can do without sending an email to the address and seeing if it bounces or not.
Uhhh, no.
Since there aren't any single character TLD's, you can verify that everything after the @ is at least one character, a period, and two characters.
That'll allow emailaddressgoeshere@g.cn which *might* be valid, but disallow emailaddressgoeshere@z which definitely isn't.
Comment Re:2 for different reasons (Score 2) 112
I think you are just too late for Neuromancer. It broke new ground at the time. I have not gone back to re-read it.
I just started it for the second time recently (lost my place in the e-book due to an unsynced device, derp).
I'm only partway through it, but what's the neatest to me is seeing where so much of the genre basically "originated".
I don't think it's possible to be "too late" for Neuromancer, you just have to go into it realizing that the reason it might feel derivative is because so much of what's out there in the genre actually came after it took their cues from it.
Comment Re: Arrogant sods (Score 2) 226
Not to mention the possibility of a software engineer seeing what the delivery drivers have to put up with and how it affects their workflow and going "We should improve this!".
As a sysadmin, I'm a huge proponent of having visibility into all portions of the business simply because, as the person who keeps the systems that support everyone else's ability to do their jobs running, knowing what people just put up with because "that's just the way it is" can sometimes lead to the good kind of change. (i.e. not just change 'for the sake of').
As a sysadmin, I'm a huge proponent of having visibility into all portions of the business simply because, as the person who keeps the systems that support everyone else's ability to do their jobs running, knowing what people just put up with because "that's just the way it is" can sometimes lead to the good kind of change. (i.e. not just change 'for the sake of').
Comment Re:Cold Fusion (Score 2) 116
Macromedia bought Allaire, then Adobe bought Macromedia.
It is currently on its year 2021 release and has a 0.3% marketshare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
;)
It is currently on its year 2021 release and has a 0.3% marketshare. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re:Still money to be made (Score 1) 116
None of them have the private key to the wallet their money is in, its all on some exchange.
Wait, what?
It's been a LONG time since I looked into bitcoin with any seriousness (circa 2010? or 2011? I forget when the Linux Outlaws episode about bitcoin was) and my memory is a bit fuzzy, but as I recall, having the private key to your wallet and the credentials associated with it was basically the only way you *had* a bitcoin wallet, right?
Comment Re: Who's going to provide those speeds? Comcast? (Score 1) 119
Given that noone I personally know who uses Comcast is actually getting what they're paying for, that might have something to do with people's complaints.
I mean, there is literally zero incentive in most markets for Comcast to actually make their service meet the advertised standards because there are no repercussions for not doing so. Most people don't have another option to switch to and noone is punishing them for false advertising.
I mean, you can pay for the 3 gb/sec down package, but you're still only getting double digit megs in most suburbs around here. The neighborhood repeaters haven't been upgraded since the neighborhoods themselves were built and Comcast isn't going to throw millions at infrastructure that generates comparatively little extra revenue and pisses off NIMBY folks and homeowners associations when the backhoes roll in.
I mean, there is literally zero incentive in most markets for Comcast to actually make their service meet the advertised standards because there are no repercussions for not doing so. Most people don't have another option to switch to and noone is punishing them for false advertising.
I mean, you can pay for the 3 gb/sec down package, but you're still only getting double digit megs in most suburbs around here. The neighborhood repeaters haven't been upgraded since the neighborhoods themselves were built and Comcast isn't going to throw millions at infrastructure that generates comparatively little extra revenue and pisses off NIMBY folks and homeowners associations when the backhoes roll in.
Comment Re:What the fuck are you talking about (Score 1) 180
I just assumed it was another case of someone's OS or browser inserting something that's the equivalent of MS Office's "Smart Quotes", where quotation marks are substituted out with special characters that occupy an entirely different place on the character layout table because they "look prettier" or whatever.
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
Comment Re: Who's going to provide those speeds? Comcast? (Score 2) 119
I believe s/he is complaining about the fact that most comcast modems come with a separate wireless SSID outside of your home network that any comcast subscriber can log in and use if they're nearby.
They gradually removed all or almost all subscriber control over this functionality, so it's always on and you can't really do anything about it unless you supply your own cable modem.
They gradually removed all or almost all subscriber control over this functionality, so it's always on and you can't really do anything about it unless you supply your own cable modem.
Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 70
Why would you plug a keyboard into a USB port? PS/2 is more than sufficient.
I'd argue instead of "more than sufficient", ps/2 is actually *superior* in many ways.
n-key rollover, hardware interrupt-based, no chance of it being delayed by other devices hogging the bus, oh, and the drivers load much earlier in the boot process so you don't have to worry about not being able to get into the BIOS, like can sometimes happen with USB keyboards.
Visions of a US Computer Chip Boom Have Cities Hustling (nytimes.com) 41
Many local governments see a silver lining in the shortage of semiconductor chips that has contributed to a slowdown in the global economy. From a report: The shortage of computer chips has zapped energy from the global economy, punishing industries as varied as automakers and medical device manufacturers and contributing to fears about high inflation. But many states and cities in America are starting to see a silver lining: the possibility that efforts to sharply increase chip production in the United States will lead to a busy chip factory in their backyard. And they are racing to get a piece of the potential boom. One of those towns is Taylor, a Texas city of about 17,000 about a 40-minute drive northeast of Austin. Leaders here are pulling out all the stops to get a $17 billion Samsung plant that the company plans to build in the United States starting early next year.
The city, its school district and the county plan to offer Samsung hundreds of millions of dollars in financial incentives, including tax rebates. The community also has arranged for water to be piped in from an adjacent county to be used by the plant. But Taylor is not alone. Officials in Arizona and in Genesee County in upstate New York are also trying to woo the company. So, too, are politicians in nearby Travis County, home to Austin, where Samsung already has a plant. Locations in all three states "offered robust property tax abatement" and funds to build out infrastructure for the plant, Samsung said in a filing. Congress is considering whether to offer its own subsidies to chip makers that build in the United States.
Where Samsung's plant will land remains anyone's guess. The company says it is still weighing where to put it. A decision is expected to be announced any day. The federal government has urged companies like Samsung, one of the world's largest makers of the high-tech components, to build new plants in the United States, calling it an economic and national security imperative. Intel broke ground on two plants in Arizona in September and could announce the location for a planned manufacturing campus by the end of the year. This could just be a warm-up act. The Senate passed a bill to provide chip makers $52 billion in subsidies this year, a plan supported by the Biden administration that would be Washington's biggest investment in industrial policy in decades. The House has yet to consider it. Nine governors said in a letter to congressional leaders that the funding would "provide a new, powerful tool in our states' economic development toolboxes."
The city, its school district and the county plan to offer Samsung hundreds of millions of dollars in financial incentives, including tax rebates. The community also has arranged for water to be piped in from an adjacent county to be used by the plant. But Taylor is not alone. Officials in Arizona and in Genesee County in upstate New York are also trying to woo the company. So, too, are politicians in nearby Travis County, home to Austin, where Samsung already has a plant. Locations in all three states "offered robust property tax abatement" and funds to build out infrastructure for the plant, Samsung said in a filing. Congress is considering whether to offer its own subsidies to chip makers that build in the United States.
Where Samsung's plant will land remains anyone's guess. The company says it is still weighing where to put it. A decision is expected to be announced any day. The federal government has urged companies like Samsung, one of the world's largest makers of the high-tech components, to build new plants in the United States, calling it an economic and national security imperative. Intel broke ground on two plants in Arizona in September and could announce the location for a planned manufacturing campus by the end of the year. This could just be a warm-up act. The Senate passed a bill to provide chip makers $52 billion in subsidies this year, a plan supported by the Biden administration that would be Washington's biggest investment in industrial policy in decades. The House has yet to consider it. Nine governors said in a letter to congressional leaders that the funding would "provide a new, powerful tool in our states' economic development toolboxes."
A Look Under the Hood of the Most Successful Streaming Service on the Planet (theverge.com) 21
A service's guts, the engineering behind the app itself, are the foundation of any streamer's success, and Netflix has spent the last 10 years building out an expansive server network called Open Connect in order to avoid many modern streaming headaches. From a report: It's the thing that's allowed Netflix to serve up a far more reliable experience than its competitors and not falter when some 111 million users tuned in to Squid Game during its earliest weeks on the service. "One of the reasons why Netflix is the leader in this market and has the number of subs they do [...] is something that pretty much everybody outside of the technical part of this industry underestimates, and that is Open Connect," Dan Rayburn, a media streaming expert and principal analyst with Frost & Sullivan, tells The Verge. "How many times has Netflix had a problem with their streaming service over the last 10 years?"
Certainly not as many as HBO Max, that's for sure. Open Connect was created because Netflix "knew that we needed to build some level of infrastructure technology that would sustain the anticipated traffic that we knew success would look like," Gina Haspilaire, Netflix's vice president of Open Connect, tells me. "We felt we were going to be successful, and we knew that the internet at the time was not built to sustain the level of traffic that would be required globally." Nobody wants to sit down to watch a movie only to have their app crash or buffer for an eternity. What Netflix had the foresight to understand was that if it was going to maintain a certain level of quality, it would have to build a distribution system itself.
Open Connect is Netflix's in-house content distribution network specifically built to deliver its TV shows and movies. Started in 2012, the program involves Netflix giving internet service providers physical appliances that allow them to localize traffic. These appliances store copies of Netflix content to create less strain on networks by eliminating the number of channels that content has to pass through to reach the user trying to play it. Most major streaming services rely on third-party content delivery networks (CDNs) to pass along their videos, which is why Netflix's server network is so unique. Without a system like Open Connect or a third-party CDN in place, a request for content by an ISP has to "go through a peering point and maybe transit four or five other networks until it gets to the origin, or the place that holds the content," Will Law, chief architect of media engineering at Akamai, a major content delivery network, tells The Verge. Not only does that slow down delivery, but it's expensive since ISPs may have to pay to access that content. To avoid the traffic and fees, Netflix ships copies of its content to its own servers ahead of time. That also helps to prevent Netflix traffic from choking network demand during peak hours of streaming.
Certainly not as many as HBO Max, that's for sure. Open Connect was created because Netflix "knew that we needed to build some level of infrastructure technology that would sustain the anticipated traffic that we knew success would look like," Gina Haspilaire, Netflix's vice president of Open Connect, tells me. "We felt we were going to be successful, and we knew that the internet at the time was not built to sustain the level of traffic that would be required globally." Nobody wants to sit down to watch a movie only to have their app crash or buffer for an eternity. What Netflix had the foresight to understand was that if it was going to maintain a certain level of quality, it would have to build a distribution system itself.
Open Connect is Netflix's in-house content distribution network specifically built to deliver its TV shows and movies. Started in 2012, the program involves Netflix giving internet service providers physical appliances that allow them to localize traffic. These appliances store copies of Netflix content to create less strain on networks by eliminating the number of channels that content has to pass through to reach the user trying to play it. Most major streaming services rely on third-party content delivery networks (CDNs) to pass along their videos, which is why Netflix's server network is so unique. Without a system like Open Connect or a third-party CDN in place, a request for content by an ISP has to "go through a peering point and maybe transit four or five other networks until it gets to the origin, or the place that holds the content," Will Law, chief architect of media engineering at Akamai, a major content delivery network, tells The Verge. Not only does that slow down delivery, but it's expensive since ISPs may have to pay to access that content. To avoid the traffic and fees, Netflix ships copies of its content to its own servers ahead of time. That also helps to prevent Netflix traffic from choking network demand during peak hours of streaming.
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