Posts by Disco-Legend-Zeke 915 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Jun 2007
That was the original idea of the Internet. But the carriers made barriers.
Now if we can just get them to cancel 800 MHz auction and give those channels back to the citizens.
If the big content (movie) owners ever embrace encrypted bit torrent, the content will already exist inside the ISP network no backbone bandwidth is required beyond the first few downloads. The customer will only need to visit the website to purchase a digital ticket to watch it.
paris cause she thinks im cute
Sony, whom i have loved since the 70's, has sadly grown too big to be run by inventors and other actual people.
Instead, the bean counters dictate what is made available.
All the action in a trade show is in the little booths around the edge. You might infer an inverse relationship between innovation and booth size.
At 2009 CES here in vegas, Sony had a few football fields of space.
The "Little Guys" were very scarce, Many booths were no-shows.
One guy showed me a wireless HD streamer box and told me the company the made it for him closed their doors last week.
its garvitationally contained. its called the sun.
We can get a lot more energy using these big bucks for solar collection.
That said, i personally believe fusion will eventually achieved on the micro or nano scale using nanotech devices to reassemble atoms.
paris because i like how her atoms are assembled.
There is so much glass in the ground that the backbone can expand to absorb almost any load offered to it.
What is lacking is honesty in ISP advertising, and the willingness to increase backbone connectivity when customers demand it.
I started an ISP business in 1995, the dark ages of dialup modems, we never offered "unlimited" dialup connection at the cheap price. In any town where there were several ISP's, the people that wanted zero busy signals used our service, and the 24/7 downloaders used the competition.
Yes, we DID have "unlimited" customers, they paid $99.95 a month (for dialup) and had a dedicated phone line and modem. Of couse a 56K modem is not gonna cause backbone congestion.
Expect to see the same with total transfers. The marketplace will sort this out. ISP's that have true unlimited transfers will either add capacity or lose customers to the competition. Heavy users (they are not abusers) will move to providers that offer true connectivity at higher, possibly metered, prices. More modest users will likewise move to metered ISPs when the congestion makes their connection intolerable.
The commercial Internet is 15 years old, when the automobile was that old, we were barely at electric starters.
Internet-3 wireless true mesh (tm), which is still in the lab, provides essentially unlimited bandwidth within a community, replacing the last mile barrier. This will force ISP's to greate a meaningful pricing structure for access to their backbone. In the long run, mesh networking could possibly connect entire countries.
Paris cause i still want to marry her.
in fast or slow moving streams, the power is there for the spinning the big problem with must underwater hyrroelectric projects (usually for ocean currwents) is that they are too big.
what's needed is muffin-fan-sized turbines that can be trown away as they clog with marine inhabitants. For a bottom crawling droid, fins may bwe all that's required.
paris wants hers in pink, please.
As james said... there is nothing solid. Bullets would pass through harmlessly. Cloud computing is like that, there is no central cluster somewhere that can be brought down by disasters.
Sure there are the problems of programming, but, hey, it's microsoft, they kinda know how to write code. I would expect cloud storage to be actually accomplished in a RAID 0+6 sort of way, with the data redundantly spread across geographically diverse locations.
The downside at this early stage is securing the connection to the cloud. A jerk with a baseball bat and a ladder can take out a couple dozen strands of fiber just by whacking it on the outside. (this has already happened to my fiber connection, no visible damage on the outside, many cracked fibers on the inside.)
Of course multiple ring configurations, etc., etc. will keep the enterprise connected.
Nevertheless, the switch to HD and SUPER-HD digital video will require terabytes of local storage, one hour of well compressed 1920 can consume 5-20 Gigabytes, and newer high end production cameras like the RED camera (4K horizontal pixels) generate 60 megabytes per second. A large production facility might have 20 cameras operating. Far too much data to transmit over the network.
Hard drive arrays are the new videotape and the new film. As the enterprise data platform moves to the cloud, the video production marketplace will grow as a customer for hard drive capacity.
Paris because she already populates more hard drives around the world than any other millionairess i know..
The tax revenues created by users and manufacturers of WI-FI equipment far outstrip revenues from auctioning off our air.
The lobbiests, etc are simply interested in stopping competition.
Remember, once you have good Internet brand connectivity, you don't need cable or phone company anymore.
The sale by the FCC of our (800 MHz) airwaves brought in $22 Billion bucks. Less than ten dollars a head for US citizens.
The greedy carriers will then charge us $30 PER MONTH to use it.
We could have had another dozen or so free HDTV channels, but we will pay the cable company $78 a month.
And we wonder why the economy is in the dumper.
Paris cause she can adfford it all.
Being old geezers, my buddy lui and myself have been discussing what to do with all the leftover biomass when out brains check out.
Our decision, buy a tree farm, and plant a tree on top of our un-enbalmed bodies.
If this process is begun swiftly enough, the life force, carried on by our Sagans (1 Sagan=billions and billions) of internal bacteria, will continue into the tree.
On the other hand... if Paris wants to snort a line of disco legend......
The winner in the new Space will be the pure Internet players, and not the triple play vendors.
Once you have bandwidth, your WI-FI appliance can look like a cable box or a phone.
Comcast was the first to get this, and they are doing their best to make sure you don't find it out.
Paris would understand.
When the original HD standards were being written, the SMPTE had a committee measure 35MM motion picture sharpness in order to determine the resolution required.
Television resolution test charts were captured on kodak film stock, then processed and printed using the Hollywood technology of the day.
What they found was that 35MM film, as projected in a well maintained cinema, has 800 lines of horizontal resolution. Since it takes two pixels (roughly) to make a line, this translated to 1600 pixels for a 4:3 aspect ratio, the additional pixels were added to produce a 16:9 (4^2 by 3^2) picture.
The artifacts you are seeing were in the film all along, but below the threshold of visibility.
As hollywood moved to digital intermediates, theatre quality jumped sharply.
Today, a large number of movies are shot digitally, using the RED CAMERA. (www.RED.com) which is native 4K, 4000 pixels H, and there is a 5 K model coming along soon.
My first HD-DVD was the BLADE RUNNER ULTIMATE collection, and the gritty look actually adds to the experience of that particular picture.
Paris because she is NOT gritty.
The efficiencies of digital transmission could have allowed tie free broadcast of many additional channels.
Or, some of that spectrum could have been repurposed toan unlicensed broadband (like, you know, WI-FI)
Instead it has been stolen from us and auctioned to the thieving^H^H^H^H^H highest bidders.
Paris should have bought some to sell her shoes.
So i have these two brand new, in the box Enterprise routers.
Top of the line stuff. Original price $48,000 each. (These were once the proud posession of AT&T for some never-built data center.)
But, darn it, i am in a one story building, no opportunity for gravity to get ahold of it. Unless somehow the trolly rolled out into the stree...
*Screech* *Bang* *krump* *tinkle* *tinkle*
"overselling" is very common in the industry, and as long as customers didn't try to actually use what they thought they were paying for, it was no problem.
Now that so much broadband content is available, the chicken bits are coming home to roost. You are not a bandwidth hog if you are just using what you pay for.
We are already seeing new pricing models from various ISPs for example, Verizon's 5G per month wireless service.
When Paris is president, she will fix all of this.
Of course i put in my own brand.
Half the links were broken, many were ugly "scraper sites" with a line or two from one of my pages and a bunch of gibberish. Old tricks that were engineered to fool Google.
Interestingly, a serch for me does turn up some Paris Hilton Links, so there IS a chance.
item 1: Cox it announced it will report indiviuals attempting to go to kiddie porn sites to the authorities. Lot of innocent fish in this net.
item 2: A conspiracy used abuse reporting features of YAHOO chatrooms to ban the names of several room regulars. Then the gang moved in and assumed the identies of the regulars. To what end i have no clue.
paris because i hope the hard working business woman sues McKain for comparing her to a low life like a politician.
all the expensive optical tricks of days passed are being done as bits and bytes. with rendering times not long ago of several seconds even minutes per frame.
now we are approaching Real Time HD and SHD rendering.
Add technologies like www.RED.com camera bodies and low price editing software and the tools once available only to hollywood are in the hands of everyman.
Paris, cause she knows what just one hit video can do for your career.
on one hand, a top researcher would be up on the latest technology, be it bentonite or whatever. so it could be just keeping up with allajonses.
on the other side, if a bio lab were looking for funding, it would be imperative to give the agent foreign credentials.
the end of life will be more likely caused by all that mercury escaping from compact fluorescent bulbs during normal failure mode. Pop, Crackle, and Spew.
in a world where bandwidth is infinite, a wi-fi reciever just sucks 200 megs or so out of the air.
All the routers help each other out.
There is no "backbone" or central tower to attack or charge for.
its not free, its user owned.
Think Nettorrent in RF space. With plenty of store/forward nodes so you can ger the latest movie in ten mins or so. (drm'd of course.)
no paris... its just... not.. right...
A friend owns several McDonalds Hamburger joints. His used oil is collected and recycled into fuel. The guy that delivers his oil also collects the used oil, and runs his trucks on it.
This got me to thinking about food waste in general, the big downside of alcohol production is that it diverts agricultural products from the food chain.
If veggie and fruit restaurant waste were collected systematically, they could be used as feedstock for fermentation. I am thinking there are millions of pounds stuffed into landfills every day.
Jonathin thanks for the bit about lubrication, it makes sense. but the tax man is still there to check the gasoline mixer-inner carefully.
Paris... Tonight is the night for her shoe party.
Here in the USA, some of the filling stations offer E-85 a mixture of Ethanol with 15% gasoline.
Is the gasoline in there to make you car run better? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It is there to keep you from drinking it.
Tax on motor fuel 18 cents per gallon. Tax on drinkable alcohol, $16 per gallon.
Paris because her alternative transportation plans will be revealed tommorrow night when she rolls out her new shoe line.
Some commercially available backup power systems use ultra high RPM spinning carbon fiber cores. In the event of a power failure, a single rack sized storage unit can output 250 KW for 15 seconds, just long enough for the diesel backups to kick in.
Mass in motion is a very efficient way to store power, And a moving vehicle still containes all the energy that accellerated it. We can slow or stop by converting the motion of our vehicle back into electricity but previous battery technology could not absorb the charge fast enough, resulting in additional losses.
Li-Tit (horray-at least i won't forget it) will improve the efficiency or regenerative braking, I had a long conversation with the lessee of an EV1, in addition to the incredible accelleration, it had a very reasonable range. EVen with the primitive battery technology of the day, the benefits of regenerative braking gave the EV1 a range of 150 miles. But he told me in order to get much benefit, he learned to let the motors slow down the car as much as possible before using the conventional brakes to stop. Many Americans were somewhat dissappointed with their hybrids because they like to drive right up to the corner and cram on the brakes. Faster recharging means less of a penalty for this driving style.
As far as range, day to day use of a car is shopping, commuting, taxiing, etc. Longer trips would become possible as fast charge stations came online, but the real savings of regenerative braking show up most in city and suburban driving anyway.
Paris because she is increasing our alternative transportation options at a Party next Tuesday, where she will be introducing her new line of shoes.
When you run a car up to 35 MPH or so, you have not used up the energy in your fuel, you have converted it into the forward motion.
Its not till you step on the brakes that this energy gets converted into waste heat.
Thats the big deal with electric vehicles, recovery of the energy as we slow down and stop.
Hooray for the governator! California may be full of crazies, but they are at least well intentioned warm and fuzzy crazies.
Paris because I'm the Disco Legend.
The faster an ISP delivers its packets, the sooner the network is clear.
In the days of mega byte downloads, it makes sense to prioritize so that VOIP gets there in "real" time. telesurgery, teledildonics? some applications just need to be immediate.
second is "live" broadcasts (when is multicast gonna get fixed.?) attended program downloads, searches, web pages. Internet 1 stuff.
third is unattended downloads: the movie you are gonna watch tommorrow, Microsoft Update, etc.
but within that little bit of order (we ALL hate voice delay) customers should get conteit as fast ast it can get to them.
The last mile is still a monopoly, or a duopoly, but Mesh Forming MIMO's will soon make the last mile free. Providers will compete on the high end for backbone throughput.
paris, cause im too high maintainence for any other girls.
All the costs of chipmaking are at the front end.
In memory, although improvements are always coming along, once its designed, the only major coasts associated with manufacture are the hot receptionist.
So the only gamble is if there will be a market. Building a foundry from scratch will give them the market edge. The market is already very strong.
We already see flash media as the Videotape Replacement of choice for Electronic News Gathering andt Electronic Film Production (see www.RED.com .)
As the hard drive crosses the TeraByte Capacity range, smaller, more rugged flash drives are filling in the aquisition market.
Brave Seagate... Now try to keep the bean counters from spoiling the soup.
Paris cause she would be so cute as the hot receprionist.
I have always proposed colocation of server and video production with laundromats and apartments. Some power companies sell waste heat to greenhouses.
Nevada has the highest per capita wind and solar, a huge solar voltaic array is at nellis AFB, and a new parabolic trough heats transfer oil which then flashes water to steam to drive conventional turbine generators.
The evaporation of water is an issue, The Water District just purchased some ranches with water rights, and pipelines are being constructed.
Unexpected issues:
increased thunderstorms in the area, this already happens, localized thundershowers are common, but such a concentrated outpouring of warm moist air is sure to generate stronger cells.
salt particles in the air, my pet peeve about swamp coolers.
Increased humidity is gonna tick off ppl who came to the desert to enjoy dry air.
las vegas is at a crossroads of several major fiber paths.
if you are a typical contemporary human, choose one: las vegas | alrington. The furniture industry moved from North Carolina to Las Vegas on the same logic.
I also operate a "data center" the walls are painted beige, just like the other bedroom in my house. In the winter, i leave the door open, and heat the house with the server heat. In the summer a window air conditioner kicks in. the bandwidth is 17 strands of fiber, one of which is lit. my personal dream is to make a free local nap, traffic from my servers has to go to LA to reach a nap and come ack to vegas. at one time, 5 servers were twirling the meters, but it is now down to two, one of which is a friend's colo machine, he has vargonMUD.com, a multiplayer game thats been running since 1993. a third server still runs because i am afraid to turn it off.
...paris because she needs me.
in return for "buying" my 5 bucks worth of bandwidth, the greedy carrier will charge me $30 - $60 per month to use it.
The airwaves belong to the people... not the FCC.
Everybody loses when this virtually unlimited (thanks to MIMO) spectrum is made the private realm of some corporation.
paris cause she could afford to bid. (and ill still marry her if she dumps the kid.
http://RED.com offers a similar packaged drive, optomized for the extremely high data rated generated by their signature product, the RED CAMERA.
The the $17,500 (body only) camera outputs adobe compatible RAW images at 60GB/second. That's a datastream of almost half a terabit.
The wonks at red have also finessed this high data rate into a CF system, perfect for short takes, and already widely adopted by the TV news Crowd.
While high density electronic storage will never replace film (FUJI promises to make 35MM film "forever",) tape is already yesterday's product.
--- paris icon just cause in the disco legend
I wanted a blue ray player from the start, but when i came across a discounted high end HD-DVD player, i broke down and bought one.
It supposedly came with 5 movies and it coust U$90. so, it was, like, buy 5 movies and get a free player. I have not gotten the discs yet, i hope they don't renig on the mail-in.
I imagine the qualitty of blu-ray movies will be about the same if i had an HDMI monitor, i don't, I have analog only in. When i play a non-locked DVD (not an HD-DVD) the up-rezzing is nothing short of spectacular. Reviews say the Sony Playsers do a very lackluster job of playing back 720 X 480 DVD content.
The biggest surprise of all, however, was that ULEAD (now COREL) video studio 11 provides the capability of burning true HD content (well, almost, it burns 1440 non-square pixels) onto ordinary DVD disks. Although its only good for 23 Minutes per layer, thats enough to view home movies on the HD screen without spending a lot of money.
So, while we will be downloading or blue raying eventually, for now i have an interim format that does the job.
paris hilton icon because, well, just because.
The Imperial Palace Sports Book here in Las Vegas does NOT have a proposition on the event.
I read that the odds are 4 to 1 that it will hit on the first try.
Then there are all the little side bets about where the pieces land.
Better double up on the tinfoil hats this week.
Paris Hilton icon cause her and i both celibrated our birthday last week in the same room. (but not the same day) she looks better in person than in the scrawney pics you always see of her. .
It has long been known that root crops grown near some highways are dangerous due to lead absorption. Many abatement programs for metal contaminated soils and waters now use crop plants bred or engineered to optomize absorption.
Since the metals in alluvial and sedimentary soils can include gold and silver, innovation in this area should prove attractive financially.
it-connection, every piece of electronics contains lead.
paris hilton connection, i danced with her.
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